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qWagmire: nations retreat from troop commitments
Belgium quietly snickering at Crossfire's Fuc Tucker Carlson.

'Coalition' members say f*ck this sh*t, go home.

USA Today is reporting that several nations which had indicated they might send troops to Iraq have decided against the idea. Bangladesh and Portugal, two countries that the US had been pressing to send troops, said they would not send any. At one point Bangladesh had said it might send as many as 5000 troops, but now Prime Minister Begum Khaleda Zia will not even ask Parliament to vote on a motion for deployment. Portugal, which has 120 policemen already in Iraq, had said it would consider sending a limited number of troops once the UN resolution authorizing a force was passed. But the recent violence in Iraq has convinced the Lisbon government not to send any combat force. South Korea is also equivocating on an offer of 5000 troops for Iraq. Meanwhile, an MSNBC report quotes Iraq's foreign minister as saying it was increasingly unlikely Turkey would send troops, since the new provisional Iraqi government has strongly objected to the idea. - - CS Monitor.