The coalition of free nations working to rebuild and revitalize Iraq grows:

Korea's parliament on Friday approved a plan to send 3,000 troops to Iraq in addition to the 465 military medics and engineers already there.

The troop dispatch, approved in a 155-50 vote, will make South Korea the third-largest contributor to coalition forces after the United States and Britain.

South Korea hopes to send the new forces to the northern Iraqi town of Kirkuk before the end of April. The new deployment, likely to include special forces commandos and combat-ready marines, will be solely responsible for security and reconstruction around oil-rich Kirkuk.

All of this without direction or permission from the United Nations. When an alliance of democracies is willing to help liberalize troubled parts of the world, bound simply by a common desire for international security and the betterment of humanity, who needs global bureaucracies?