U.S. allies in Iraq to drop to "handful": official

[David]

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The number of U.S. allies involved in the Iraq war will be reduced to just a "handful" in the next 90 days, a senior Bush administration official said on Tuesday.

"The same 'return on success' logic will be applied in the coming months to the coalition," the official told reporters at a briefing. "Just as we're reshaping U.S. force structure, we're going to reshape the coalition. We'll go from about 29 countries to a handful in the course of the next 90 days or so."

The official declined to say which countries would pull out of Iraq.

[Boats]

Why can't the UN move in some assistance? If they want us out bring in the reserves from the UN let them bird dog these guys. We can step back and back them up if push comes to shove. Let the troops re-coup. Yea right - they will just move them elsewhere to clean up some more BS. It's tough carrying the big stick - too many penalties.