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 | | But Cekuolis conceded that Lithuania's help, measured quantitatively, will be small. | | | One poll this week showed 81 percent of those surveyed opposed to war without another UN resolution and 47 percent opposed to a war under any circumstances, prompting Blair yesterday to once again defend his position and paint his detractors as America-bashers. | | | And, of course, the request is a pool of things that Lithuania could do," he said. |
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| | TAP: Web Feature: Allied Farces. by Cory Oldweiler. March 25, 2003. |
| | Japan (19) is a coalition member, although the Japanese prime minister said he was "anguished" by his decision to support the United States, and the nation -- like almost all the other members of the coalition -- will not send troops. | | | The Czech Republic (2), after meeting with Russian diplomats, has reaffirmed its decision and will not support the war without United Nations backing. | | | It is true that during wartime, patriotic Americans should never question the motives of the government of the United States (45). |
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| | Analysis: The 'coalition of the willing' - (United Press International) |
| | The treaty encountered fierce opposition in the United States, however, and it is now unlikely that it will be ratified by the U.S. Congress this year. | | | "It's not as if the countries that have stuck with the coalition have gotten that much in terms of benefits from the United States," he said. | | | All members of the coalition stated their public support for U.S. goals in Iraq, but many also seek to reap benefits from a closer association with the United States. |
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| | THE BRAD BLOG: "REUTERS: White House Scraps 'Coalition of the Willing' List" |
| | I will only add here that there is a global media consolidation effort going on which violates the spirit of the Founding Father's opposition to monopolies. | | | Nevertheless, we must continue to support those who are standing up and fighting for us, like Senator Boxer, Rep. John Conyers, the Congressional Black Caucus, and the Progressive Caucus. | | | If not for Rove, and if not for his ruthlessness, the hapless preppie George W. Bush would not be in the White House today"..."met Lee Atwater in 1972. |
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| | CNN.com - World braces for Iraq war - Mar. 18, 2003 |
| | And in Britain, embattled Prime Minister Tony Blair has won backing from the House of Commons to take "all means necessary" to disarm Iraq despite a rebellion of many members of his ruling Labor Party. | | | An early amendment to take the decision back to the United Nations failed by 396 to 217. | | | In Ankara, Turkey's government will ask its parliament to allow the United States to use Turkish airspace in a war against Iraq. |
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| | WorldNetDaily: 45 nations join 'coalition of willing' |
| | Spain, a leading political backer of the diplomatic campaign for a United Nations resolution authorizing war, said it would not be contributing forces, and Japan qualified its support by saying it was willing to help only with post-conflict peacekeeping and reconstruction. | | | Poland will deploy up to 200 non-combat troops, and John Howard, the Australian prime minister, offered 2,000 troops after receiving a pre-dawn telephone call from President Bush. | | | Australia also closed the Iraqi embassy and expelled all diplomatic staff, according to a report in the London Telgraph. |
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| | Coalition of the willing? Make that war criminals - smh.com.au |
| | International law recognises two bases for the use of force. | | | Respect for international law must be the first concern of the Australian Government if it seeks to punish the Iraqi Government for not respecting international law. | | | The initiation of a war against Iraq by the self-styled "coalition of the willing" would be a fundamental violation of international law. |
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| | afrol News - Eritrea markets role in "Coalition of the Willing" |
| | The increasingly isolated country was even fighting al Qaeda on Eritrean soil, the ambassador told his American audience. | | | Mr Asmerom in his speech re-emphasised Eritrea's "support for the United States and the 'Coalition of the Willing'." | | | afrol News, 26 May - The Eritrean ambassador to the United States in a speech in Washington last night maintained Eritrea's special role as a key US ally in the "Coalition of the Willing" in fighting the so-called "war on terrorism". |
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| | Coalition of the Willing |
| | The heavy hitter, of course, is the United Kingdom, which was dragged into the Iraq war by Prime Minister Tony Blair against the wishes of its people and most of its politicians. | | | The Coalition of the Willing is significant because every influential nation in the world—with the exception of the United Kingdom—is not a member. | | | And Japan is a member in name only because under the terms of the World War II peace treaty, Japan can only have a self-defense force, and not an army. |
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http://home.earthlink.net/~exodus22/essays/coalition.htm
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| | "Coalition of the Willing" Already Larger than the 1991 Gulf War coalition |
| | Spain: Strongest ally of the United States and Britain. | | | Philippines: The Philippine National Security Council offered political support for a U.S. led war to disarm Iraq. | | | This does not include all of the 15 nations that have offered quiet support. |
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| | A Fifty Pound Bag of Whistling Lips |
| | Hey, they could "reeducate" that Minister of Information guy Mohammed Saeed al-Sharaf and have him run for president of Iraq. | | | You can bet that the majority of Iraqis will be voting soon. | | | In her latest column, Molly Ivins mentions that the Bush administration will soon be providing "universal health care and massive school construction for postwar Iraq, while simultaneously cutting health and education funding here at home." Nice. |
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| | WorldNetDaily: A coalition of the willing |
| | The Bush administration has said "no" to the Kyoto Protocol and to the International Criminal Court. | | | The United States should not – indeed, cannot – allow the United Nations to usurp its sovereignty over either environmental or military decisions. | | | Russian Defense Minister Sergei Ivanov says that "military action by the United States and its allies against Iraq, without U.N. approval, [would be] illegitimate and unjustified." This view is shared by many U.N. member nations and, sadly, some of the members of the Bush administration. |
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| | Coalition of the willing - SourceWatch |
| | CNN European Political Editor Robin Oakley reported on September 20, 2001, less than ten days after the terrorist attacks on the U.S., that Tony Blair was the first EU leader to insist that "his country stood shoulder to shoulder with the United States following the terror attacks on the World Trade Center and Pentagon." | | | George W. Bush has said the United States will lead a "coalition of the willing" if the Iraqi president chooses not to give up his weapons of mass destruction. | | | QandA: What Is the "Coalition of the Willing?" (http://www.nytimes.com/cfr/international/slot1_032803.html), from the Council on Foreign Relations in The New York Times, March 28, 2003. |
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http://www.sourcewatch.org/wiki.phtml?title=Coalition_of_the_willing
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| | DesMoinesRegister.com News |
| | Kerry, a former prosecuting attorney, spent more time sounding Democratic legal themes such as enforcement of affirmative action, abortion rights and civil rights. | | | He urged the British to table their resolution in order to show other nations the United States' willingness to give any military action that may come more international legitimacy. | | | But Kerry said the U.N. resolution introduced by Britain on Friday, which gives Iraq until March 17 to disarm or face war, provides too little time for the United States to win over skeptical allies. |
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| | Bush’s Coalition of the Willing? |
| | In what the New York Times considered to be an expression of 'restrained praise,' President Roh Moo-hyun said, "We will make diplomatic efforts to ensure that this war does not worsen our relations with North Korea." Restrained indeed, and that from a 'willing' partner! | | | The Coalition of the Willing includes Blair, Aznar and Berlusconi, but not most of the citizens of the UK, Spain or Italy (Total = 3) | | | Every nation in this coalition has chosen to bear the duty and share the honor of serving in our common defense.” |
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| | TomDispatch - Follow up: The coalition of the willing to be paid minus two |
| | The Dominican Republic redux: Yesterday, I noted a paragraph-long New York Times report on the resignation of the Dominican Foreign Minister after the country joined the "coalition." I promptly received the following e-mail from Dave Brotherton, visiting professor of law and political science at the Autonomous University of Santo Domingo. | | | The Prime Minister stated unequivocally, "We are a part of no such coalition," thus rejecting $4.5 million dollars in unasked for aid. | | | He said the pro-war position of the Dominican President was "dangerous" for a small country like the Dominican Republic that had been invaded on two occasions by that country (i.e. |
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| | JINSA Online -- #466 The Coalition of the Willing Includes Iraqis |
| | Agreeing that it was a “great day for democracy,” Evan Bayh nevertheless couldn’t resist a shot at the President. | | | More than 8 million Iraqis (over 60 percent of the eligible total, including at least one intrepid Israeli of Iraqi origin who voted by absentee ballot in Amman) braved violence both threatened and real, and the disdain of the international community and American naysayers to cast a ballot. | | | Tomorrow will be a good day to begin worrying about the next step in Iraq’s transformation from brutal military dictatorship to consensual government to democracy, and the broader implications for the Middle East. |
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| | \"Coalition of the Willing\" |
| | I don't have a source, but I remember hearing that Spain, Portugal, and Britain were the main allies. | | | The essay covers how many of the countries in the coalition are only a part of it because the US is increasing aid, paying them outright, or threatening action if they don't join the coalition. | | | I searched quite a bit around the net and couldn't find a definitive list of who actually is a part of the coalition. |
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| | Colin Powell emitted some spin. At the Post, it turned into a headline |
| | Dan Balz did the honors in this morning’s Post: | | | WITT: Wolfowitz also said that, even without Security Council endorsement of a war, Washington would be able to assemble a large coalition against Iraq. | | | BALZ: The list was shorter than previously suggested by administration officials, who recently said the coalition supporting the United States was in the “high two digits,” and it included such nations as Eritrea, Afghanistan, Azerbaijan, Colombia and Ethiopia, which have little to offer beyond moral support. |
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| | Coalition - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia |
| | The phrase "Coalition of the Willing" was employed during the 2003 war in Iraq lead by the United States and its allies [1]. | | | In Australia, the Coalition is also used to refer to an alliance of three parties (the Liberals, Nationals and Country Liberals) existing in federal politics since 1922. | | | A coalition government, in a parliamentary system, is a government composed of a coalition of parties. |
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| | Articles - Coalition of the willing |
| | "Coalition of the Willing" is a phrase which has been used since the 1980s to refer to groups of nations acting collectively and often militarily outside of the jurisdiction of the United Nations mandates and administration. | | | The first American President known to have publicly mentioned acting with a "Coalition of the Willing" in place of a UN Mandate was Bill Clinton. | | | Due to the high percentage of states that were small, impoverished nations in need of United States financial aid, a New York Times editorial referred to it as the "Coalition Of Welfare States." |
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| | AlterNet: The Precarious Coalition |
| | They are mostly the same countries that were weak enough to be bullied into signing bilateral treaties with the United States to exempt it from the International Criminal Court. | | | In other cases, Washington's list seems to be a case of willful exaggeration. | | | So we are now in a war that was opposed not just by the majority of members of the Security Council and the General Assembly, but also most of the citizens of our allied nations and even by some of its governments. |
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| | Footnote Fahrenheit : Iraq : Coalition of the willing (members) |
| | The State Department identified 30 other coalition members in a March 18, 2003 press briefing, and the United States Senate passed a resolution identifying 50 other members on March 27, 2003. | | | Costa Rica also asked in September 2004 that it be removed from the list of Iraq coalition members after a court ruling that found that inclusion on that list violated the country's constitution. | | | The 50-member coalition identified in the Senate's March 27, 2003 resolution included members who had actually provided military forces (four such nations), many nations who had issued a declaration stating the danger posed by Iraq, and many that had provided "diplomatic and strategic support." The following table breaks down the list of members by category. |
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| | CNN.com - Bush: Join 'coalition of willing' - Nov. 20, 2002 |
| | George W. Bush has said the United States will lead a "coalition of the willing" if the Iraqi president chooses not to give up his weapons of mass destruction. | | | "However, should he choose not to disarm, the United States will lead a coalition of the willing to disarm him and at that point in time, all our nations... | | | CNN's John King reports U.S. President George Bush is using the NATO summit as a platform to influence coalition support against Iraq (November 20) |
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| | PWHCE - Coalition of the Willing List, Map and Troop Numbers |
| | This page lists quotes from a number of heads of state of members of the Coalition. | | | Official White House Press Releases on the members of the Coalition of the Willing. | | | This includes Croatia and Slovenia (signatories to the Vilnius Statement, but not listed as part of the Coalition) and Norway and Sweden, which advocated a war to unseat Saddam Hussein until it became clear the UN would not support such a war, at which point they espoused offical positions of opposition to the war. |
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| | Freiheit und Wissen: The Coalition of the Willing? |
| | Italy - Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi â“ A general election will be held next year. | | | In regional elections last week, Berlusconiâs coalition was defeated in 6 of the 8 regions it held going into the election, including the region that holds Rome. | | | Much has been said in the past week about President Bushâs dismal approval rating. |
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| | Coalition of the Bribed, Bullied & Blind |
| | BRIBED The crumbling economies of Estonia, Latvia and Lithuania are desperate for funding from Britain and America through the United Nations. | | | GEORGE Bush has made great play of the "coalition of the willing" - 30 countries who support his war on Iraq. | | | This show of support has been stitched together by bullies in Washington dangling massive bribes in front of countries which depend on financial support from other nations. |
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| | DefenseLINK News: Coalition of the Willing Provides Formidable Force |
| | More than 15 other countries have privately told the United States that they support the position, Boucher said, but for internal political reasons cannot be open about their support. | | | Powell said the United States is pleased to be working with those leaders and, he hoped, "They will all be able to do everything that's possible within their means to support the coalition militarily, diplomatically, politically and economically." | | | There are 30 countries who have agreed to join the United States in the "coalition of the willing" to rid Iraq of weapons of mass destruction, State Department spokesman Richard Boucher said March 18. |
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| | DefenseLINK News: Hungarian Ambassador's Band Rocks on for Wounded Troops |
| | Shortly after arriving in Washington as ambassador in 2002, Simonyi helped form The Coalition of the Willing. | | | Simonyi, the Hungarian ambassador to the United States, and his rock band, The Coalition of the Willing, played a tribute concert for wounded servicemembers recovering at Walter Reed Army Medical Center here June 7. | | | Along with Bob McNally on drums and Jim Ehinger on keyboard, they made up a band called The Coalition of the Willing, led by Simonyi, Hungary's ambassador to the United States. |
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| | Many Willing, But Few Are Able - Global Policy Forum - UN Security Council |
| | "It's rather symbolic," said Hersey Kyota, Palau's ambassador to Washington, of his country's willingness to be listed in the 46-member coalition of the willing engaged in the Iraq war. | | | Some on the White House list, such as Turkey, have been critical of the war and uncooperative. | | | Asked if Iceland would be supplying troops, ambassador Helgi Agustsson gave a hearty Scandinavian guffaw. |
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| | Iraq Coalition - Non-US Forces in Iraq |
| | This included an infantry company numbering between 120-130 tropps assigned to UNAMI. | | | Its contingent of troops assisting the coalition was made up of 1 infantry Battalion, 1 Engineer unit, probably company-sized, 1 MP company, 1 Infantry company, 1 medical group, 1 reconnaissance group in addition to officers and NCO assigned to HQs. | | | The unit, with 550 troops would be responsible for security at the al-Rasheed Hotel and the Iraqi Convention Center, the home to the newly-elected Iraqi National Assembly, in addition to providing security for United Nations convoys in Baghdad. |
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| | Telegraph News Coalition of 45 is claimed as Aussies join up |
| | Colin Powell, the US secretary of state, said allies in the so-called "coalition of the willing" were offering troops, overflight rights, logistical support or help with post-war reconstruction. | | | John Howard, the Australian prime minister, offered 2,000 troops after receiving a pre-dawn telephone call from President George W Bush asking Australia to join the war. | | | America said yesterday that 45 nations worldwide were supporting its planned military campaign against Iraq, as Australia, Poland and Denmark committed troops to join the war effort. |
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| | A Wilting Coalition |
| | Country by country, the coalition is wilting from such uninspired leadership from the United States. | | | Bush said Berlusconi reassured him in a phone call ''that there was no change in his policy; that, in fact, any withdrawals would be done in consultation with allies and would be done depending upon the ability of Iraqis to defend themselves. | | | That is a massive cut from the days when the administration boasted the window dressing of 38 fighting countries and nearly 50 total allies (even as the United States accounted for 85 percent of the troops). |
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| | Democratic Underground Forums - Coalition of the "Willing" |
| | Messages posted on the Democratic Underground Discussion Forums are the opinions of the individuals who post them, and do not necessarily represent the opinions of Democratic Underground, LLC. | | | Besides, if they don't support Bushco, the CIA will "privatize" their drug industries--coerced. | | | WASHINGTON - While U.S. President George W. Bush insists that many countries are eager to join what he calls a ''coalition of the willing'', a more apt name may be ''coalition of the coerced'', according to a report released Wednesday by the Institute for Policy Studies, a progressive Washington think tank. |
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| | Solomon Islands dragooned into the "coalition of the willing" |
| | Reacting to press reports about the “coalition of the willing”, Solomon Islands Prime Minister Allan Kemakeza declared on March 25: “The government is completely unaware of such statements being made, and therefore wishes to disassociate itself from the report.” There was no public response from the Bush administration and the list remained unchanged. | | | The list of some 46 countries, which is posted on the White House web site, has been the subject of lavish assertions by senior US officials. | | | US ambassador to the region Susan Jacobs told the radio station: “I’ve been in discussions with the prime minister, and foreign minister, who have told me that they will be retracting their disavowal of support, and reinforcing their support of the Coalition.” |
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| | BBC NEWS World Americas US names 'coalition of the willing' |
| | "I hope that they will all be able to do everything that is possible within their means to support the coalition militarily, diplomatically, politically and economically," US Secretary of State Colin Powell said. | | | And the US had promises of support from some of the countries which are already involved in the war on terrorism, including Afghanistan, Uzbekistan, Georgia, and the Philippines. | | | It was not clear what support countries like Estonia, Latvia, Lithuania, and Bulgaria were providing to the US coalition, but many are seeking US financial or military support through Nato. |
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| | Watcher of Weasels: The Coalition of the Willing |
| | As usual, I will be reposting this announcement on a weekly basis. | | | I will look at all the submissions and then nominate the two posts that I like the most. | | | You must make a post containing 4 required links -- your qualification post must link to the most recent winning council post, the most recent winning non-council post, the results of the latest vote, and that vote's posting of the nominees. |
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| | Guardian Unlimited The Guardian What can Eritrea possibly do to help the US in Iraq? |
| | Will Georgia be offering practical support, in the war with Iraq, or purely moral? | | | But it's a communal decision that the central American countries have arrived at together. | | | The "coalition of the willing", as Colin Powell has called it, is the list of 30 countries that responded positively to a phone call from Washington, seeking their support against Iraq. |
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| | OpinionJournal - Featured Article |
| | The United States and the countries in NATO will go right ahead and do it. | | | What President Bush calls a "coalition of the willing" will become America's new security alliance. | | | Saddam would do the same thing to prevent the U.S. from launching an attack," says David Phillips, a senior fellow at the Council on Foreign Relations who advised the Bosnian presidency at the time. |
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| | Political Affairs Magazine - "Coalition of the Willing" Falling Apart |
| | In March 2004, over 500,000 anti-war protestors marched in the streets of New York against Bush's war. | | | On the two-year anniversary of the beginning of the invasion of Iraq, at east 725 towns and cities in 50 states, according to the country's largest peace coalition, United for Peace and Justice, have planned demonstrations and other activities for this weekend. | | | Berlusconi's ruling coalition (Casa, which includes Italy's fascist parties) faces election in 2006. |
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| | Scoop: The Coalition Of The Willing [/Killing] Is Named |
| | In four of these nations at least, the UK, Australia, Italy and Spain the Government's have taken their decision to support the coalition in the absence of a UN mandate clearly against the majority public opinion. | | | The position of the Danish and Netherlands public on this war is not known, but given their long liberal traditions in politics, it seems highly unlikely that they would support it. | | | In naming it U.S. Secretary of State Colin Powell observed that it was a bigger group than that arrayed to support the first Gulf War in 1991. |
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| | cce blog: coalition of the willing |
| | not only that, but we mixed up Slovenia and Slovakia in the coalition list, and the republicans even drafted legislation for $4.5 million in aid to Slovenia, even though Slovakia is the actual supporter. | | | the Marshall Islands also say they're not a member, even though they're listed on the White House coalition list. | | | some funny articles today: america's friends among the pacific islands are a little pissed off about being made fun of for joining the "Coalition of the Willing." the message: coconut jokes aren't funny. |
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| | » Coalition of the willing » » Blog Archive » Signposts |
| | In reality, that means that whoever forms government will need to compromise policy decisions. | | | At the same time, our own government is trying to make us more like the US, and himself more like a president than a PM. | | | I have been watching with some interest the NZ election and the scramble to try and put together a coalition government. |
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| | The Acorn » A humanitarian coalition of the willing |
| | C Raja Mohan throws more light on the accelerated diplomacy that preceded President Bush’s announcement of the formation of a humanitarian coalition comprising India, Japan, Australia and the United States. | | | Nitin Pai writes about a coalition being built by the States, India, Australia, Japan. | | | 7 Responses to “A humanitarian coalition of the willing” |
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| | Coalition still willing: Downer. 19/03/2004. ABC News Online |
| | Foreign Minister Alexander Downer says the coalition of the willing remains strong, despite a key United States ally admitting he felt misled into believing former Iraqi president Saddam Hussein had weapons of mass destruction. | | | Prime Minister John Howard says he is seriously considering a proposal to remove the precise time limit on detaining terrorist suspects and instead say they can be held for a "reasonable" period. | | | A statement purportedly from Al Qaeda says the group will no longer target civilians in Spain, after the election of a Socialist Government which has vowed to remove troops from Iraq. |
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| | Coalition of the Willing - dKosopedia |
| | The Coalition of the Willing was the Bush administration slogan referring to the U.S. allies against Iraq in March of 2003. | | | This page was last modified 21:57, 1 Jun 2004. |
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| | Ready, Willing and Evil? |
| | Washington decides who is in the coalition, and we recall that early on some countries had been admitted as members without even knowing they had applied. | | | Ukraine and Poland have announced they will pull out by year's end, and Italian Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi said last week that Italy will begin withdrawing this fall. | | | The U.S.-led coalition once included three dozen nations, but in the past year, more than a dozen countries have withdrawn or announced plans to leave. |
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http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2005/07/10/AR2005071000894.html
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| | project arts centre, dublin, ireland |
| | The Prescriptions and singer-songwriter Chrissy Evans will also be playing. | | | The best of new Irish bands will be performing on the night and headlining are The Urges, a funky rock band who played a blinding gig when they opened the new bands tent at Oxegen Festival last year. | | | Metro Youth, a supplement for Metro Eireann Publication has teamed up with i-to-i to present the "Coalition of the Willing" Gig on Thursday, January 27th at the Project Arts Centre. |
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http://www.project.ie/cgi-bin/eventdetail.pl?id=296
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