A Coalition of the Coerced

Ari Fleischer got laughed off stage when he denied that the US was "buying the votes of other nations" to gain the support for its second UN resolution against Iraq. Already, the US is gloating that it "can wring the nine votes necessary to win approval of the new Iraq resolution."

A new report by the Institute for Policy Studies, "Coalition of the Willing or Coalition of the Coerced?," breaks down how the pressure is being applied to each member of the UN Security Council.