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Bush's Iraq Coalition Shrinking

By DEB RIECHMANN
The Associated Press
Friday, February 18, 2005; 11:31 PM

WASHINGTON - ... "I expect to see .. coalition countries ..paring down their forces .." .. Rumsfeld told the House Armed Services Committee ... Spain, Honduras and the Dominican Republic have pulled hundreds of troops out of Iraq .... On Friday .. Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice acknowledged The Netherlands' plans to withdraw about 1,600 troops from Iraq .... Ukraine's .. president .. Yushchenko said Thursday .. that withdrawing the nation's soldiers from Iraq topped the agenda for its .. military .... Earlier this month .. Portuguese police arrived home ....

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A36838-2005Feb18.html

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