US allies in Iraq to drop to 'handful' -official

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Source: 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. (Reporting by Matt Spetalnick)

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1. Would we notice? There never was much to start with.

But don't forget Poland!!!