Allies Withdraw !!!

Multinational force dwindling."In the months after the March 2003 invasion, the multinational force numbered about 300,000 soldiers from 38 countries — 250,000 from the U.S. and 50,000 from other countries. The coalition has steadily unraveled as the death toll rises and angry publics clamor for troops to leave. Now the nearly 160,000-member U.S. force in Iraq is supported by just under 24,000 mostly non-combat personnel from 27 countries. Britain has the second-largest contingent with 8,000 in Iraq and 2,000 elsewhere in the Gulf region."

Lemme see … 50,000 originally of the 300,000, or a little under 17 percent of the Coalition, were allied troops. And after the US reduced its troop level to 160,000, around 24,000 allied troops remain, approximately 15 percent now are allied troops. I'm shocked! I tell you absolutely shocked they didn't say allied support forces plummeted 2 percent!!!

I don't see the grand steadily unraveling MSNBC is spinning, nor the angry clamoring publics it speaks of, but folks will natter far and wide how the Coalition of the Killing is dwindling, falling apart – as if there was ever massive support for Operation Iraqi Liberation. But that's just my 2 (per)cents worth.