Belgium, Croatia and Luxembourg were also among the countries reported to be ready to commit forces.
If ordered to commit forces, they favor a decisive, overwhelming use of troops, officials said.
If ordered to commit forces, they favor a decisive, overwhelming use of troops, the officials said.
The farm owners agreed to plead guilty in December in Federal District Court to conspiring to commit forced labor.
Senators John Kerry and John McCain introduced a bipartisan resolution authorising the president to commit forces, but not to deploy ground troops.
While the Turkish parliament has given the go ahead for Turkey to engage in military action the president, Recep Tayyip Erdoğan, has so far refused to commit forces.
Although the Dutch have since withdrawn from al-Muthanna, their presence provided the political and military cover necessary for Japan to commit forces.
Mr Chrétien has called for the weapons inspectors to be given more time, wants all measures to be decided by the UN, and has been reluctant to commit forces to the Gulf.
The French military said publicly for the first time that it was ready to commit forces to an international intervention in Syria if the president Francois Hollande decided to do so.
The deal is broadly that the budget pays for standing military capability while the reserve funds operations – and this should be a crucial factor in a decision to commit forces.
