In alt.home.repair Kevin Singleton wrote:
You mean the Australia that has a whopping 300 troops there, and the
Poland
whose prime-minister has said they were "taken for a ride" by the US and
are pulling out next year? Are those really the countries you want to use
to illustrate the coalition building skills of the Bush administration?

A friend is a friend. I don't expect every dinky little third-world nation
to contribute on the same level as the US.

You weren't talking about third world countries, you were talking about
Poland and Australia, when Poland has said they were deceived by the US
(Now would a friend say that? And would the US deceive its friends?),
and Australia is only the 12th largest contributor of troops. If those
are the best examples you could come up with, that either says something
about you or about the coalition. In either case, it's not good.