and whose fault is that?

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By Robert Burns

Sept. 11, 2003 | WASHINGTON (AP) -- Just days after the United States began pushing for a new U.N. resolution authorizing a multinational military force for Iraq, senior administration officials are seeking to lower expectations that large offers of foreign troops will be forthcoming.

``The expectation is that we would not get a large additional number of forces as a result of an additional U.N. resolution,'' Defense Secretary Donald H. Rumsfeld said Wednesday during a question-and-answer session following a speech at the National Press Club.

Secretary of State Colin Powell made a similar remark at a closed-door briefing for Senate members later Wednesday, according to a Senate aide who spoke on condition of anonymity.

The aide said Powell told lawmakers the world community is suffering from ``donor's fatigue'' -- an apparent reference to the fact that the United States has made repeated requests for financial aid and peacekeeping commitments in Afghanistan and the Balkans in recent years.

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