Why haven't I seen an infographic on the 32 countries (by SecDef Rumsfeld's count) with "soldiers" in Iraq?
I have a hunch that it would look like those graphics seen during every Olympics where it becomes very obvious that one or two countries were getting most medals while a slew of other nations would manage to win one or two events. (Ah, for the days when national pride was measured every four years by the colored bars for the US and USSR. Of course, the simplistic worldview engendered during those times when things seemed binary is at least one root cause for the hubris that is miring our troops in Iraq.)
Surely some news outlet has this important information in an easy-to-apprehend graphic.
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Coalition Joint Task Force Seven is the overarching unit and has a list that was current on May 15, paraphrased below. I count only 16 countries with "forces" committed (several are either prepared or preparing to deploy or are not exactly in Iraq) and 32 supporting financially. This isn't a force I would compare with the coalition in Gulf War I, WWII or any of the other the DoD and White House constantly compare with it.
Countries (16) supplying ground, air or sea forces, medical supplies or personnel, or humanitarian aid:
1. Albania: one infantry company
2. Australia: two C-130s of medical assets; Special Operations Forces;
two frigates and one support ship for enforcing UN sanctions against Iraq; two P-3 aircraft for Maritime Patrol; 14 fighter aircraft, three helicopters, and two aircraft for airlift.
3. Bulgaria:
Prepared to deploy a light infantry unit
4. Czech Republic: 50-bed Level III Field Hospital; six water purification units; a nuclear, biological, chemical consequence management unit.
5. Denmark: a three man surgical team; one coastal submarine and one frigate.
6. Italy: a Level III field hospital, with associated security personnel and water, sanitation, and civil engineering specialists;
Prepared to deploy a mechanized infantry brigade.
7. Kuwait:
Forces for defense of Kuwait; medical supplies; a Field Hospital with 40 beds.
8. Lithuania: a cargo handling team; four medical personnel with trauma and orthopedic surgery specialties.
9. Netherlands:
Patriot batteries to Turkey to support NATO Article IV defense of Turkey.
10. Poland: an NBC consequence management unit, Special Operations Force, preparing to deploy a division and assume operational responsibility of one sector in Iraq.
11. Republic of Korea: a Medical Support Group, consisting of a 60-bed Level II+ Field Hospital; a construction and engineering support group.
12. Romania: an NBC consequence management unit;
maintains additional units on a 'prepare to deploy' order.
13. Slovak Republic: an NBC consequence management team
14. Spain: one frigate and one support ship;
one medical facility (Level II+, 14 beds) and one deployable Field Hospital (Level II+, 40 beds), both still at sea.
15. Ukraine: an NBC consequence management unit.
16. United Kingdom:
ground forces not specified in document; 31 vessels, including destroyers, frigates, aircraft carrier, helicopter carrier, supply ships, mine counter measure forces, and submarines; 66 fighter aircraft, 14 tanker aircraft, 41 helicopters, 10 reconnaissance aircraft, four AWACS aircraft and four aircraft for airlift.
Countries (32) offering financial support:
1. Australia
2. Austria
3. Belgium
4. Canada
5. Croatia
6. Czech Republic
7. Finland
8. France
9. Germany
10. Greece
11. Hungary
12. India
13. Ireland
14. Italy
15. Japan
16. Jordan
17. Korea
18. Kuwait
19. Liechtenstein
20. Lithuania
21. Luxembourg
22. Netherlands
23. New Zealand
24. Portugal
25. Saudi Arabia
26. Spain
27. Sweden
28. Taiwan
29. Turkey
30. United Arab Emirates
31. United Kingdom
32. United States of America.
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