Real life intrudes...

...so probably light blogging today, but I wanted to share a quick 'monolition' update with you.

On the heels of withdrawl news from Spain "...Honduras announced a similar pullout late Monday. President Ricardo Maduro said his country's 370 troops would withdraw "in the shortest time possible."

"Spanish and Honduran troops are mostly based in or around Najaf, where U.S. soldiers have been confronting the forces of an anti-American Shiite Muslim cleric, Muqtada al-Sadr."

But don't fret. Thailand is holding firm, as long as nobody starts a war or anything.

" BANGKOK, April 20 (Reuters) - Thailand will withdraw its 451 medical and engineering troops from Iraq if they are attacked amid growing turmoil in the country, Thai Prime Minister Thaksin Shinawatra said on Tuesday.

"If we get hurt or killed, I will not keep them there," Thaksin told reporters a day after Honduras followed Spain in announcing they would pull their troops out of Iraq."

Call it the coalition of the willing to go just so far...