Going, going…

Fun facts from Brendan Daly at The Gavel.

TOTAL NUMBER OF TROOPS FROM REMAINING PARTICIPATING COUNTRIES: 4,395 (Countries: Poland, Romania, Australia El Salvador, Georgia, Azerbaijan, Bulgaria, Latvia, Albania, Czech Republic, Mongolia, Lithuania, Armenia, Bosnia & Herzegovina, Estonia, Macedonia, Kazakhstan, The Netherlands, and Slovenia; does not include Denmark’s 460 troops the government just announced would be withdrawn by the end of summer 2007)

AVERAGE TROOP COMMITMENT PER COUNTRY: 220 – however, nearly half of the participating countries have committed 100 or fewer troops to the coalition. (Czech Republic, Lithuania, Armenia, Bosnia & Herzegovina, Estonia, Macedonia, Kazakhstan, The Netherlands, and Slovenia)

NUMBER OF COUNTRIES NO LONGER PARTICIPATING IN THE COALITION: 16 (Hungary, Nicaragua, Spain, Dominican Republic, Honduras, Philippines, Thailand, New Zealand, Tonga, Portugal, Singapore, Norway, Ukraine, Japan, Italy, and Slovakia.)

COUNTRIES TRANSITIONING OUT OF THE COALITION: 2Moldova’s 11 troops recently returned home and the country has not decided whether or not to send in a new deployment. [AP, 2/21/07] Denmark’s government announced plans to withdraw their 460 troops by August 2007. [CNN, 2/21/07]