Bush's 'Coalition of the Willing' Wavers

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WASHINGTON - President Bush (news - web sites)'s prized "coalition of the willing" — the three dozen countries that are contributing military forces in Iraq (news - web sites) — appears suddenly to be losing some of its will.


First Spain said it was getting out, then Poland said it might leave early, and on Friday the South Korean Ministry of Defense announced that it will not send its troops to the area of Iraq that U.S. commanders had requested, although it said it would position them elsewhere in Iraq.


The coalition may not be crumbling, but neither is it gaining the political traction that the Pentagon (news - web sites) had hoped for as it tackles the difficult task of finding fresh forces for the Iraq mission in 2005 and beyond.

http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&cid=544&ncid=716&e=6&u=/ap/20040319/ap_on_go_pr_wh/iraq_coalition_cracks

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