Robert Fisk in The Independent:
And where, for God?s sake, does that wretched, utterly dishonest phrase ?coalition forces? come from? There is no ?coalition? in this Iraq war. There are the Americans and the British and a few Australians. That?s it.
The ?coalition? of the 1991 Gulf War does not exist. The ?coalition? of nations willing to ?help? with this illegitimate conflict includes, by a vast stretch of the imagination, even Costa Rica and Micronesia and, I suppose, poor old neutral Ireland with its transit rights for US military aircraft at Shannon. But they are not ?coalition forces?. Why does the BBC use this phrase? I repeat, why? Even in the Second World War, which so many journalists think they are now reporting, we didn?t use this lie. When we landed on the coast of North Africa in Operation Torch, we called it an ?Anglo-American landing?.