Italy is latest country to say, "Enough is enough" and leave Iraq.

The list of country's backing Bush's illegal jaunt into Iraq shrunk yet again today with Italy announcing that it intends to withdraw it's troops and with it's new Prime Minister Romano Prodi calling the invasion, a "grave error."

"We consider the war in Iraq and the occupation of the country a grave error," Prodi told the upper house of Parliament. "It has not resolved, but complicated the situation of security."

Italy's 3,000 troops will be brought home by December, in a promise made by Berlusconi to remove Iraq as an issue in the election which he recently lost. It is likely that Prodi may call for them to come home even sooner.

With Blair's premiership dangling by a thread over the abyss, Bush may soon find himself all alone.

The party of Spain's prime minister, Jose Maria Aznar, was ousted in 2004 by voters upset in part by troop deployments in Iraq. The prime minister of Portugal, who stood next to Bush days before the invasion, resigned months later for another job.

The leaders of Poland and Ukraine, which had sizable units in Iraq, were both replaced in elections by successors who pulled out some or all troops.

Japan's prime minister, Junichiro Koizumi, often cited by Bush in stump speeches as one of his best friends abroad, plans to step down in September. And even British Prime Minister Tony Blair, mired in Iraq-related controversies, appears poised to resign next year.

Honduras, Nicaragua and the Dominican Republic originally had forces in Iraq but withdrew them.

One by one Bush's coalition of the bribed and the brainless are falling away from him.

He's literally going to end up the last man in the world shouting, "Iraq was right, I was right." Passers-by will smile with that mixture of fear and sympathy that one usually reserves for sufferers of Tourette's.

But unlike those afflicted with that terrible condition, Bush does not deserve our sympathy. He was warned.

Colin Powell told him, "If you break it, you have to fix it."

He didn't listen.

He went on the break a country, to break up his coalition, and to break the hearts of thousands of American, British and Iraqi parents who will never again hold their children in their arms.

And he did all this based on lies.

He is deserving of nothing other than our deepest contempt. And he deserves to be left all on his own surveying the carnage that his arrogance has wrought.

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