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Shanghaied

Jesse Walker | 3.28.2003 8:22 AM

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Evidently, to be part of the Coalition of the Willing, you needn't actually be willing.

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Jesse Walker is books editor at Reason and the author of Rebels on the Air and The United States of Paranoia.

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  1. geophile   23 years ago

    How embarrassing. Oh well, more "blood money" for us.

  2. Lefty   23 years ago

    I thought I was reading the Onion! Really.

  3. John O'Hara   23 years ago

    I noticed Afghanistan is listed as a part of the Coalition of the Willing.

    I wonder what they offer to Bush.

  4. Gary Gunnels   23 years ago

    John O'Hara,

    Wouldn't that be Kabul?

  5. Anonymous   23 years ago

    Kabul

  6. Dan   23 years ago

    I bet some House staffer got Slovenia and Slovakia confused (the latter actually IS a member of the coalition).

  7. geophile   23 years ago

    These little pissant countries expect the U.S. State Department to tell them apart? Hubris!

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