Coalition of the Willy-Nilly

George Bush said in his speech that there are 36 nations with boots on the ground in Iraq.

One example from the president's list of 36 is Iceland which has sent a single public information officer to serve in the NATO mission in Baghdad. More robustly, Italy has 8 officers on the NTM-I mission in Baghdad, Portugal is considering sending "up to 10."

  TPM

If you take a look at the list we were provided [by the White House], by a National Security Council official, the first heading is "Countries with troops on ground in Iraq." Only 26 countries appear in that category. The remaining 10 countries are assigned to either United Nations Assistance Mission in Iraq or to NATO Training NTM-I.

So by the President's own accounting, the math is wrong. As Spencer Ackerman points out, there are other problems with the numbers. Canada is listed, for example, among the 36, but it pulled out its one and only person in Iraq months ago.

  TPM

Albania [...] has just 120 soldiers there and Bulgaria has 150 non-combat troops in Iraq.

  Think Progress

New Zealand does contribute its own soldier -- that's soldier, singular -- to UNAMI.

  TPM Muckraker

Sigh.

....but hey, do what you want....you will anyway.

Meanwhile in Afghanistan

Even our allies don't want us there.

A senior British commander in southern Afghanistan said in recent weeks that he had asked that American Special Forces leave his area of operations because the high level of civilian casualties they had caused was making it difficult to win over local people.

[...]

An American military spokesman denied that the request for American forces to leave was ever made, either formally or otherwise, or that they had caused most of the casualties.

  NY Times

You can now forget Poland

July 25 (Reuters) - The United States has accepted Poland's plans to pull most of its 1,700 troops from Iraq at the beginning of next year, Polish President Aleksander Kwasniewski said on Monday.

  Reuters article

....hey, do what you want....you will anyway.

Coalition of the no longer willing

Australia will not send more troops to Iraq to replace departing British forces, Defense Minister Robert Hill said Thursday.

   article

Just in case you were getting any ideas.