And now you can forget Poland. This shows how Bush’s “staunchest allies” think of him now:

ONE of America’s main allies, Poland, believes so many mistakes were made in the war in Iraq that any military intervention in Iran would be highly unlikely and the world would have to learn to deal with Iran having nuclear arms.

In an interview in Warsaw, the undersecretary of state for defence, Stanislaw Koziej, told the Herald the operation in Iraq “wasn’t optimal, wasn’t very effective and quite a lot of mistakes were done there and still we make a lot of mistakes”.

Poland, one of the original “coalition of the willing” partners in Iraq, previously had 2500 troops there – its biggest military challenge since World War II. Today it has 900.

Through a translator, Mr Koziej said the experiences in Iraq, which greatly divided Europe, did not make it easy for the world to react in Iran. “I personally believe that military intervention in Iran is improbable,” Mr Koziej said. “So we should get used to the fact that we will have to deal with Iran having nuclear armaments.”.

(h/t to Think Progress)

When you got a bunch of chickenhawks running a war then you get a chickenhawk ran war that not only costs us troops and billions of dollars, but also costs us dear allies. This is the reason Bush has had to take a more timid response to issues like Iran and North Korea; not because he wants to, but because he must.