Friday, April 9

Coalition Of The Resigned To Being There For The Slog

However, the UK, Spain, Portugal, Denmark, Netherlands, Iceland, Estonia, Latvia, Lithuania, Czech Republic, Slovakia, Hungary, Albania, Macedonia, Romania, Bulgaria, Turkey, Croatia, Slovenia, Ukraine, Japan, South Korea, Singapore, Philippines, Afghanistan, Azerbaijan, Uzbekistan, Georgia, Marshall Islands, Micronesia, Solomon Islands, Mongolia, Palau, Tonga, Colombia, Nicaragua, Costa Rica, Dominican Republic, Honduras, Australia, Kuwait, Eritrea, Ethiopia, Uganda, Rwanda and Angola will have to get back to him in a few weeks.

Bush Seeks to Shore Up Support for Iraq

President Bush on Friday won renewed pledges of support for U.S. efforts in Iraq from allies Italy, Poland and El Salvador, the White House said, as casualties and kidnappings mounted.

On the one-year anniversary of the fall of Saddam Hussein, Bush spoke by telephone with Italian Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi, Polish President Aleksander Kwasniewski and Salvadoran President Francisco Flores, who have all sent troops to Iraq.