The White House has released an updated list of coalition partners in "Operation Iraqi Freedom," and far be it from the Far-Flung Ryan-Silva Media Empire to not acknowledge that the list has grown substantially. The new members of the coalition are:

• Costa Rica
  
• Dominican Republic
  
• Honduras
  
• Iceland
  
• Kuwait
  
• Marshall Islands, population less than 75,000
  
• Micronesia, population about 160,000
  
• Mongolia
  
• Palau, population less than 20,000
  
• Panama
  
• Portugal, whose President nevertheless called the war "illegitimate" without a second UN resolution
  
• Rwanda
  
• Singapore
  
• Solomon Islands, population less than 500,000
  
• Uganda
  

In truth, these are probably not new members of the coalition, but are among those unwilling to be named earlier.

The Administration notes that the "number [of partners] is still growing, and it is no accident that many member nations of the Coalition recently escaped from the boot of a tyrant or have felt the scourge of terrorism." It is also no accident that they include the most piss-poor countries on the face of the earth, many of whom, like Micronesia, rely on foreign aid for their very existence.