3/16/2005
The incredible shrinking coalition
More countries are dropping out of the US led coalition, or reducing their role in Iraq as we speak. Italy, Bulgaria, and Ukrainian troops will be heading home either enmasse or in part over the next few weeks. The sadly shrunken coalition, down from its heyday of thirty eight countries, is down to twenty four. Of the less than one hundred seventy-five thousand coallition troops still in the theater of operations, over one hundred fifty thousand are US troops. This is yet another sign of the poor leadership provided by the Bush administration and their positive inability to hold people together.
