A Coalition of One?

Poland feels misled over Iraq WMD. So goes the headline from Reuters.

As always, we look toward the bottom of articles to see what's there. We find:

GROWING DOUBTS?

Poland, the biggest ex-communist country joining the European Union in May, is a staunch U.S. ally.

It has steadfastly defended NATO's role in European security and risked the wrath of France and Germany by backing the military campaign launched nearly a year ago that ousted Saddam.

Unlike in many other European countries, Polish public opinion was initially in favour of intervening in Iraq.

And many Poles were proud the United States picked the former Warsaw Pact stalwart to run one of the stabilisation zones there.

But continued violence in Iraq has dented support for the mission and some right-wing and populist parties have raised their voices in demanding that troops be pulled back.

Poland's discomfort also grew when the incoming Spanish government signalled it was going to adopt the French and German line on Iraq, leaving Poland more isolated ahead of a crucial EU summit next week.

These 'defections' by 'our allies' must be very troubling to Washington. Now that Polish president Aleksander Kwasniewski has siad that he feels misled, there is no way of knowing how this is going to play out.

There must be long faces in the White House right now.

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