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Daily Kos : The "Coalition of the Billing"

Kos has an excellent post that I am cribbing here, but feel free to click over to the story to participate in the dialog.

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)

  1. Italy: 3,169
  2. South Korea: 2,800 (will increase to 3,600)
  3. Poland: 2,400 (gradual complete pullout in 2005)
  4. Ukraine: 1,400 (complete pull out over next few months?)
  5. Netherlands: 1,345 (complete pullout by March 2005)
  6. Romania: 700
  7. Japan: 750
  8. Denmark: 496
  9. Bulgaria: 485 (pulling out 20 of those in near future)
  10. El Salvador: 380
  11. Hungary: 300 (complete pullout by March 2005)
  12. Australia: 920
  13. Mongolia: 180
  14. Georgia: 159 (850 by end of 2004)
  15. Azerbajian: 151
  16. Portugal: 128
  17. Latvia: 122
  18. Czech: 110 (down to 10 in near future)
  19. Lithuania: 105
  20. Slovakia: 105
  21. Albania: 71
  22. Estonia: 55
  23. Tonga: 45
  24. Kazakhstan: 29
  25. Macedonia: 28
  26. Moldova: 12
  27. 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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