{"id":2812,"date":"2004-09-19T15:58:07","date_gmt":"2004-09-20T05:58:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/2004\/09\/19\/coalition-of-the-unwilling\/"},"modified":"2019-12-11T09:10:48","modified_gmt":"2019-12-11T17:10:48","slug":"coalition-of-the-unwilling","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/2004\/09\/19\/coalition-of-the-unwilling\/","title":{"rendered":"Coalition of the Unwilling"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class='__iawmlf-post-loop-links' style='display:none;' data-iawmlf-post-links='[{&quot;id&quot;:10204,&quot;href&quot;:&quot;http:\\\/\\\/24hour.startribune.com\\\/24hour\\\/world\\\/story\\\/1639667p-9349555c.html&quot;,&quot;archived_href&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;redirect_href&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;checks&quot;:[],&quot;broken&quot;:false,&quot;last_checked&quot;:null,&quot;process&quot;:&quot;done&quot;},{&quot;id&quot;:10205,&quot;href&quot;:&quot;http:\\\/\\\/jacquelinepassey.blogs.com\\\/blog\\\/2004\\\/09\\\/coalition_of_th.html&quot;,&quot;archived_href&quot;:&quot;https:\\\/\\\/web-wp.archive.org\\\/web\\\/20050310141432\\\/http:\\\/\\\/jacquelinepassey.blogs.com:80\\\/blog\\\/2004\\\/09\\\/coalition_of_th.html&quot;,&quot;redirect_href&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;checks&quot;:[{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2026-03-11 02:10:34&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:403}],&quot;broken&quot;:false,&quot;last_checked&quot;:{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2026-03-11 02:10:34&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:403},&quot;process&quot;:&quot;done&quot;}]'><\/div>\n<p>Costa Rica has requested that its name be <a href=\"http:\/\/24hour.startribune.com\/24hour\/world\/story\/1639667p-9349555c.html\" title=\"Costa Rica wants removal from U.S. coalition list\">stricken from the White House&#8217;s &#8216;Coalition of the Willing&#8217;<\/a>, saying their support was for the War on Terrorism, not the invasion of Iraq.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>\n  Costa Rica&#8217;s Constitutional Court has ruled that the country&#8217;s name cannot be included by the United States as part of a &#8220;coalition&#8221; in the Iraq conflict, and Costa Rican officials are demanding their country be stricken from the list.<\/p>\n<p>  Costa Rica apparently never formally joined the U.S.-led coalition, but its name was listed on a White House Web page of coalition members, sparking outrage in a country where the Iraq war is enormously unpopular.<\/p>\n<p>  Following Wednesday&#8217;s ruling, Costa Rica &#8211; which never sent any troops to Iraq, in part because it has no army &#8211; is making it clear it does not want to be listed as a member of the coalition.<\/p>\n<p>  A White House Web site still had the country listed on Thursday. The U.S. Embassy said it was still reviewing the court&#8217;s action and had no immediate comment.\n<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>(via <a href=\"http:\/\/jacquelinepassey.blogs.com\/blog\/2004\/09\/coalition_of_th.html\" title=\"Coalition of the Unwilling\">Jacqueline<\/a>)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Costa Rica has requested that its name be stricken from the White House&#8217;s &#8216;Coalition of the Willing&#8217;, saying their support was for the War on Terrorism, not the invasion of Iraq.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2042],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2812","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-politics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2812","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2812"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2812\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2812"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2812"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2812"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}