The Coalition of the "Not-So-Willing-Any-More"
the coalition of the "not-so-willing-any-more" is slowly but surely revealing the bushco claim of international support for the iraq war to be the chimera that it has always been...
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US and Iraqi leaders are pressing their military allies in Iraq to postpone withdrawing troops...
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US and Iraqi officials also are hoping to persuade other nations in the 27-member international coalition to extend their commitments to Iraq.
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"Militarily, the contingents that are there don't make an enormous amount of difference," said Charles Heyman, a former British infantry officer and a senior defense analyst at Jane's Information Group in London. "But from a political perspective, they make a huge amount of difference. The White House can point to a 'coalition of the willing.' Their departure chips away at the Americans' ability to project this as a major international effort in Iraq."
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posted by profmarcus at
11/26/2005
