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| DefenseLINK News: Coalition of the Willing Provides Formidable Force (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20) |
 | | There are 30 countries who have agreed to join the United States in the "coalition of the willing" to rid Iraq of weapons of mass destruction, State Department spokesman Richard Boucher said March 18. |
 | | Countries that support the coalition are Afghanistan, Albania, Australia, Azerbaijan, Colombia, the Czech Republic, Denmark, El Salvador, Eritrea, Estonia, Ethiopia, Georgia, Hungary, Iceland, Italy, Japan, Korea, Latvia, Lithuania, Macedonia, the Netherlands, Nicaragua, the Philippines, Poland, Romania, Slovakia, Spain, Turkey, the United Kingdom and Uzbekistan. |
 | | Pentagon officials said this new coalition is more like the one assembled for Afghanistan than for the liberation of Kuwait in 1991. |
| www.defenselink.mil /news/Mar2003/n03192003_200303194.html (575 words) |
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