Bush's disappearing alliance: A slideshow on Boston.com

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http://www.boston.com/news/world/middleeast/gallery/allies/?p1=MEWell_Pos1">Bush's disappearing alliance

While President Bush made the case once more this week for staying in Iraq and "staying the course," a majority of the countries in the Multinational Coalition that supported the invasion in 2003 have since withdrawn most or all of their troops, or announced that they will do so in the near future.

Here is a review of how these vanishing allies have "changed the course."

Italy

- Had 3,200 troops at its peak, first deployed in July 2003; the troops were withdrawn by the end of November 2006

Spain

- 1,300 troops deployed in April 2003; the troops were withdrawn in April 2004


Who's left?


The State Department listed Latvia, Japan, Britain, South Korea, and Denmark among the 25 countries with forces in Iraq on an Aug. 15 report, titled: "Increase International Support for Iraq."

Yet those countries have announced their plans to withdraw, just as several other allies have done in the past four years.

Much more & pics at the link. There's a poll at the http://www.boston.com/news/world/middleeast/gallery/allies?pg=13">the end:

How long should we stay the course?

We should have left already
67.2%
We should change the course as soon as possible
21.1%
As long as we have to
7.9%
Through ‘08
3.9%
Total votes: 622

[Gruenemann]

1. What about Poland????

Don't forget Poland :-)

[PDJane]

2. Interesting.........

The vast majority of folks who voted, said you should be out of there already. I'll go further; you should never have been there in the first damn place.

[unhappycamper]

3. Thanks.

I missed that photo essay this morning.

We should have left already 67.2%
We should change the course as soon as possible 21.1%
As long as we have to 7.7%
Through ‘08 3.9%
Total votes: 634

[Fridays Child]

4. k/r

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5. kick

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