Wednesday, September 29, 2004

Unilateral?

The big lie seems to be that we are in Iraq all by ourselves. Here's a list that was compiled by the Candian Broadcasting Corporation. We are not there alone by a long shot.

  • United Kingdom: 9,000 soldiers
  • Italy: 3,000 soldiers, some serving as police and engineers
  • Poland: 2,400 soldiers
  • Ukraine: 1,600 soldiers
  • Netherlands: 1,100 soldiers plus a logistics team, a field hospital, military police and 200 engineers
  • Japan: 1,100 soldiers assigned to reconstruction
  • Australia: 800 soldiers
  • Romania: 700 soldiers plus 149 de-mining specialists, military police and "special intelligence" members
  • South Korea: 600 military engineers and medics
  • Bulgaria: 480 soldiers plus chemical warfare experts
  • Thailand: 440 soldiers assigned to humanitarian missions
  • Denmark: 420 soldiers including medics and military police
  • El Salvador: 360 soldiers
  • Hungary: 300 soldiers
  • Norway: 179 soldiers, mostly engineers and mine clearers
  • Mongolia: 160 soldiers involved in peacekeeping
  • Azerbaijan: 150 soldiers taking part in law enforcement and protection of historic monuments
  • Portugal: 125 soldiers functioning as police officers
  • Latvia: 120 soldiers
  • Lithuania: 115 soldiers
  • Slovakia: 102 soldiers
  • Czech Republic: 80 soldiers, serving as police
  • Philippines: 80 soldiers plus police and medics
  • Albania: 70 non-combat troops
  • Georgia: 70 soldiers
  • New Zealand: 60 army engineers assigned to reconstruction (expected to leave in Sept. 2004)
  • Moldova: 50 soldiers including de-mining specialists and medics
  • Macedonia: 35 soldiers
  • Estonia: 30 soldiers
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