roguevalley
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Fri Dec-03-04 06:43 PM
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KOS: These are the troop counts of the Coalition |
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State of the coalition
by kos Fri Dec 3rd, 2004 at 08:43:50 PST
So here's the best data on the status of Bush's coalition of the billing:
1. United Kingdom: 12,000 (will decrease to 10,500 in near future) 2. Italy: 3,169 3. South Korea: 2,800 (will increase to 3,600) 4. Poland: 2,400 (gradual complete pullout in 2005) 5. Ukraine: 1,400 (complete pull out over next few months?) 6. Netherlands: 1,345 (complete pullout by March 2005) 7. Romania: 700 8. Japan: 750 9. Denmark: 496 10. Bulgaria: 485 (pulling out 20 of those in near future) 11. El Salvador: 380 12. Hungary: 300 (complete pullout by March 2005) 13. Australia: 920 14. Mongolia: 180 15. Georgia: 159 (850 by end of 2004) 16. Azerbajian: 151 17. Portugal: 128 18. Latvia: 122 19. Czech: 110 (down to 10 in near future) 20. Lithuania: 105 21. Slovakia: 105 22. Albania: 71 23. Estonia: 55 24. Tonga: 45 25. Kazakhstan: 29 26. Macedonia: 28 27. Moldova: 12 28. Norway: 10
That makes for a total of 23,900 troops, over half from the Brits.
Countries who have already pulled out: Thailand, Spain, Honduras, Dominican Republic, Nicaragua, Philippines, Singapore, and New Zealand.
Armenia was supposed to offer a 50-man contingent, but that is now up in the air. Fiji will send 130 troops to serve as security for the UN mission.
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Fri Dec-03-04 06:45 PM
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1. ahh the GRAND collation. |
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Well done GW.
Top Drawer, indeed.
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Fri Dec-03-04 06:48 PM
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2. well, at least Kos didn't forget Poland... |
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Fri Dec-03-04 06:48 PM
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3. Remember the fight in their Parliament over Japan sending troops? |
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Not exactly "willing" to join the coalition, were they? There's nothing like a little U.S. arm-twisting thuggery to change a country's mind, though.
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Fri Dec-03-04 06:52 PM
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Fri Dec-03-04 06:54 PM
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5. Kerry made this point during a debate (I think it was MO) that the state |
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they were in would be the third largest contributor of troops to the coalition after the US and Britain.
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