Thirteen of the 38 members of the Win Without War coalition are religious groups, for example.
But one of his ministers later declared that the war coalition should bear the cost of rebuilding.
More recently he was a prominent member of the Stop the War Coalition.
He served as Portuguese Prime Minister in 2002-2004, throwing his support behind the Iraq war coalition of the US, UK and Spain in 2003.
Rather, it makes more sense to see the new Bush administration as trying to rebuild the Gulf war coalition of George Bush senior.
By implication, any unilateral American action against Saddam would shatter not only the Gulf war coalition but also such support as remains for international sanctions.
The lunchtime protest in Cardiff - organised by the Stop the War Coalition - had converged on the Aneurin Bevan statue in Queen Street from Cardiff University.
In Britain, the Stop the War Coalition criticized the 28-year-old's comments as "crass" and questioned how he knew those he'd killed were actually members of the Taliban.
He wants to undermine Saddam Hussein by aiding the Iraqi opposition, a policy that contradicts Mr Powell's attempts to patch together the Gulf war coalition, most of whose members oppose the idea of trying to overthrow Mr Hussein.
And he has been seeking to change American policy towards Iraq by trying to unite the fractured Gulf war coalition behind a new sanctions regime, which would reduce economic sanctions in exchange for toughening the control of exports with military uses.
On Monday night, PA reported that about 15 students -- members of the School of Oriental and African Studies' branch of Stop the War Coalition -- occupied the reception area of a BBC building in central London and demanded to speak to a senior member of the corporation.
Compared to the Gulf war, the coalition has taken few prisoners, though it claims that desertions are making up some of the difference.
But shadow business secretary Chuka Umunna said the appointment followed a "turf war" within the coalition government.
In 1800, in the War of the Second Coalition, the French defeated the Austrians at the Battle of Hohenlinden in upper Bavaria.
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The aftermath of the war has left plenty for the coalition partners to disagree about.
Countries that either participated in the Coalition effort in the war or supported it -- including Britain, Australia, Spain, Italy, Poland, Turkey and Japan -- are on the list.
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He compared the challenges facing the current Conservative-Lib Dem administration to those confronted by Winston Churchill's coalition government during World War Two, saying the severity of the situation meant it was right for two parties to work together.
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As of Thursday, 157 U.S. and British troops had died in the war, less than half the 358 coalition deaths in Desert Storm.
They will not have the ground attack function which was a key role for coalition aircraft in the Iraq war: this will come with the second tranche.
Now it was America's moment: 1991 saw not only the success of the American-led coalition in the first Gulf war, but also the beginning of serious peace talks.
The Democratic presidential nominee also pointed to weaknesses in the coalition that Bush built for the war.
Al-Sadr, widely popular in Iraq's Shiite heartland, opposes the U.S. occupation of Iraq and, during the war, his Mehdi Army militia has fought coalition and Iraqi forces.
The history of the very few "grand coalition" experiments in Italy since World War II does not inspire hope for long-term success.
Russia -- which opposed the U.S.-led war on Iraq -- on Friday urged the coalition to give an early account of the WMD search.
But those kinds of decisions are going to set off a sort of Hobbesian war of all-against-all within the Democratic coalition.
Turkey, which has one of the largest military forces in the alliance, has declined to join the coalition trying to restore stability in post-war Iraq.
They say it is especially dangerous to do at a time when the Russians and other nuclear-capable allies are key coalition members in the U.S. war against terrorism.
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