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No, the "Coalition of the Willing" is not a misnomer. I know you're all worked up and ready to flog some yanks, but you'll just have to put down that horsewhip for a moment.

As an Australian, I can assure you Australia was willing. Polls showed reluctance at first, but once the war started there was majority support. Indeed, Prime Minister Howard's popularity rating is now on a record high and the carping Opposition Leader Simon Crean has the lowest rating as leader of his party ever recorded (10%). His leadership is now in apparently terminal crisis.

Australia is far from the only country supporting freedom and _true_ peace for Iraq. The media was flooded with material ridiculing the coalition of the willing, pointing out that some of the smaller, less 'civilised' countries had joined, but they forgot to mention the many larger or more advanced countries. The criticism of these countries was a corallory of the claim that Arabs simply aren't up to democracy so we may as well leave them in tyranny.

Having read much of what Czech President Vaclav Havel wrote when he was a dissident, I was unsurprised when he asked neighbouring countries to sign on. You claim that the Eastern European countries only signed on because they were candidates for NATO, but you ignore the fact that they were also candidate members of the EU. If they are currying favour, why one group and not the other? Could it be that they see the Coalition as liberating the Iraqi people (and therefore more likely to liberate them from a potential Russian invasion as projected in your article), and at the same time they see Germany (another serial invader) and France sitting on their hands? I was speaking to former Czech dissident Mila Dvorakova (a confidant of Havel) recently, and she brought up the parallel of the Munich Agreement. The East has not forgotten how selfish countries let them down so many times in the past.

More comment on the Coalition:
http://geocities.com/pwhce/willing.html

Check out the colour-coded map of Europe in particular :)

Trevor Stanley.

As an egyptian-American who has
actually lived in the middle East,
and NOT out of some liberal political Science textbook,I must
wholeheartedly congratulate George
W Bush and the American Military
for confronting and dealing with
the nefarious Iraqi regime.
But as for the so-called peace activists,They SHOULD BE USED AS
HUMAN SHIELDS!Why not?Either that,
or be tried for treason and if found guilty,executed!Isnt that
just common sense?
Take the misguided Olympia,Wa
resident who tried to block an Israeli bulldozer!!Good job,Israel
Good job!
The Jihad and all its "untermensch" supporters like
hamas,hizbollah etc must be wiped
out as thoroughly as would an ebola outbreak.Who's kidding who?
To all my "fellow" arabs who support Saddam and suicide bombers
I really must say:
"een aldeen omak JIHAD"
"coos omak HAMAS"
"machdool saddam"
THE MORNINGSTAR