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justiceischeap Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Jan-21-05 07:59 PM
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White House Scraps 'Coalition of the Willing' List
Edited on Fri Jan-21-05 08:00 PM by thecorrection
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The White House has scrapped its list of Iraq (news - web sites) allies known as the 45-member "coalition of the willing," which Washington used to back its argument that the 2003 invasion was a multilateral action, an official said on Friday.

The senior administration official, who spoke on condition of anonymity, said the White House replaced the coalition list with a smaller roster of 28 countries with troops in Iraq sometime after the June transfer of power to an interim Iraqi government.

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On Friday, an organization from Iceland published a full-page advertisement in the New York Times calling for its country's withdrawal from the coalition and offering apologies for its support for U.S. policy.

http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&u=/nm/20050122/wl_nm/bush_iraq_dc&e=1
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hippiechick Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Jan-21-05 08:00 PM
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1. That's cause everyone's bailed ...
:freak: George, Dick and Tony are left all on their own now ...



:hippie:
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Vincardog Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Jan-21-05 08:01 PM
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2. Move along nothing to see here.
OK bring in the next lie. Let's hope it lasts a little longer than the last one.
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rodeodance Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Jan-21-05 08:09 PM
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3. I will have to look for the Iceland ad-missed it.
ts current average rating is 1.80 with 140 vote(s).
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captainslack Donating Member (66 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Jan-21-05 08:13 PM
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4. But....
what about Poland?!? :eyes:
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MadisonProgressive Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Jan-21-05 09:19 PM
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13. HAHA! The dumb asses forgot Poland.... AGAIN!!!
:toast: :spank: :beer: :headbang: :yourock:
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Brundle_Fly Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Jan-21-05 08:26 PM
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7. 2.10 with my vote
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NNN0LHI Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Jan-21-05 08:25 PM
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5. Easy come, easy go. Chimpy will just buy some more coalition partners
With our tax money of course.

Don

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leesa Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Jan-21-05 08:36 PM
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9. Exactly. Now where did that 2-3 trillion dollars the DOD lost go??
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MadisonProgressive Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Jan-21-05 09:20 PM
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14. Yes, I fully expect Barundi to send some goat herders very soon...
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David Zephyr Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Jan-21-05 08:26 PM
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6. Bye, Bye to the Coalition & the WMD & the Color Terror Code &...
your social security surplus and your medicare benefits and your national reputation and your civil liberties and your standard of living and your job...
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Wilms Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Jan-21-05 08:31 PM
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8. Well this is inconvenient.
How will I know who to send Christmas cards to.
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tanyev Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Jan-21-05 09:09 PM
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10. It was starting to look messy
with all those scratch-outs.
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JerseygirlCT Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Jan-21-05 09:11 PM
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11. Little by little, it's being dismantled -
well, shucks folks, no there weren't really any WMD... oopsie -- our bad.

And yes, that whole coalition of the willing thing? Yeah, maybe it was just a little exaggerated...

What's the next revelation I wonder?
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VegasWolf Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Jan-21-05 09:13 PM
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12. "Don't forget Uraguay!" n/t
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MadisonProgressive Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Jan-21-05 09:21 PM
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15. You sure it isn't Paraguay? I always get those two mixed up...
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VegasWolf Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Jan-21-05 09:24 PM
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16. me too, how about Moon over Parador.n/t
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