"The American right strikes back"

[Skogs]

The US does not need the coalition to provide military resources and personnel in Iraq. The US military would have been perfectly capable of invading and policing Iraq on its own. The purpose of the coalition is to provide a veneer of legitimacy to the American occupation. Spanish forces only make up a miniscule proportion of the occupation force in Iraq. It's not the loss of troops that wil hurt the US, it's the fact that it has lost a major supporter of the war in Iraq (note: NOT the war on terror). Given that the war was done unilaterally and outside the framework of the UN, I don't see this as a bad thing.