Updated List of countries that still belong to the "coalition of the willing"

[sabra]

http://blogs.usatoday.com/ondeadline/2007/10/list-of-countri.html

ALBANIA: 120 non-combat troops, mainly patrolling airport in Mosul; no plans to withdraw.
ARMENIA: 46 soldiers, serving as medics, engineers and transport drivers, serving under Polish command; mission extended to end of 2007.
AUSTRALIA: 550 troops helping to train security forces in two southern Iraqi provinces; no plans to withdraw.
AZERBAIJAN: 150 troops, mostly serving as sentries, on patrols and protecting dam near city of Hadid; no plans to withdraw.
BOSNIA-HERZEGOVINA: 36 soldiers, including three teams of 10 officers and a command team of six.
BRITAIN: 5,000 troops in southern Iraq; Prime Minister Gordon Brown says 2,500 to come home next spring.
BULGARIA: 155 in total, including 120 non-combat troops guarding refugee camp north of Baghdad and 35 support personnel.
CZECH REPUBLIC: 100 troops; government working on plan for gradual withdrawal; no timetable.
EL SALVADOR: 300 soldiers doing peacekeeping and humanitarian work in southern city of Kut; cuts expected as situation improves.
ESTONIA: 35 troops serving under U.S. command in the Baghdad area.
GEORGIA: About 2,000 soldiers and support personnel in Kut; government to cut contingent to around 300 by next summer.
KAZAKHSTAN: 27 military engineers; no plans to withdraw.
MACEDONIA: 40 troops in Taji, north of Baghdad.
MOLDOVA: 11 bomb-defusing experts.
MONGOLIA: 160 troops; no plans to withdraw.
NETHERLANDS: 15 soldiers as part of NATO mission training police, army officers; no plans to withdraw.
POLAND: 900 non-combat troops; commands multinational force south of Baghdad; mission extended to end of 2007; government says decision on any withdrawal will wait until after 2008 U.S. elections.
ROMANIA: About 600 troops, most serving in the south under British command, with the rest — a few dozen military intelligence officers — serving north of Baghdad; President Traian Basescu, the commander-in-chief, says they will stay.
SLOVENIA: Four instructors training Iraqi security forces.
SOUTH KOREA: 1,200 troops in northern Iraqi city of Irbil; government now assessing whether to extend or end mission.
UNITED STATES: Approximately 168,000 troops; Bush plan would reduce total next summer to at least 130,000 troops.

[SteppingRazor]

1. Glad to see you didn't forget Poland.

:silly:

[emilyg]

11. I'm ashamed of Poland.

[againes654]

2. All the big guns huh

[Megahurtz]

3. Why Do Some

of these little tiny Countries want to risk their themselves for BushInc. Bullshit???:banghead:

[Horse with no Name]

7. It's all tied to foreign aid

that they absolutely must have.

[nightrider767]

4. Australia Only 550?

For a country run by such a war hawk, they sure invest in the war like a bunch of chicken littles.

A perfect example of when action does not match rhetoric.

[BrklynLib at work]

5. I did not think it would even be THAT long anymore..

[theoldman]

6. It would be interesting to listen to the leader of each country

explain why they are in Iraq. If it is critical, why don't they send more combat troops? If it is not important, why don't they go home?

[rodeodance]

8. Rec and a big thanks

[rug]

9. When Slovenia pulls out chaos will follow.

[ThomWV]

10. Total them up and they still don't equal Blackwater, British included