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As usual, just after a big announcement from His Dubyaness grabs the front pages, his minions are saying "well, it's not quite that way..."

Administration Officials Seek to Lower Expectations on Foreign Help in Iraq - from Tampa Bay Online: " Just days after the United States began pushing for a new U.N. resolution authorizing a multinational military force for Iraq, senior administration officials are seeking to lower expectations that large offers of foreign troops will be forthcoming.

'The expectation is that we would not get a large additional number of forces as a result of an additional U.N. resolution,' Defense Secretary Donald H. Rumsfeld said Wednesday during a question-and-answer session following a speech at the National Press Club. "

And what of the troop deployment and economic plans that were based on most of the UN suddenly getting mass amnesia and deciding to help us out? Good question....