One is the Loneliest Number

As the (real) New York Times reports above, in two days the United States will be the only "coalition" member fighting in Iraq when the last British, Romanian, and Australian forces are sent home. It was always a rather pathetic coalition - even if John Kerry had remembered Poland in the 2004 presidential debates - with the US contributing the vast majority of troops and thus doing the vast majority of dying and wounding. At least George H. W. Bush put together a genuine multinational force for the first Gulf War, with several Middle Eastern nations (especially Saudi Arabia) contributing financially. W. couldn't even get that part right - few military powers other than Tony Blair's puppet government wanted any part of Bush's War of Choice. So now it's down to just brave American men and women to keep paying the price for the biggest foreign policy mistake in our history. Let's hope they all make it home.

Maybe the fake NY Times headline will eventually come true --