{"id":3873,"date":"2007-09-13T20:48:00","date_gmt":"2007-09-14T03:48:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/2007\/09\/13\/only-21-nations-have-troops-in-iraq-%e2%80%93-not-bushs-claim-of-36\/"},"modified":"2007-09-13T20:48:31","modified_gmt":"2007-09-14T03:48:31","slug":"only-21-nations-have-troops-in-iraq-%e2%80%93-not-bushs-claim-of-36","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/2007\/09\/13\/only-21-nations-have-troops-in-iraq-%e2%80%93-not-bushs-claim-of-36\/","title":{"rendered":"Only 21 Nations Have Troops in Iraq &#8212; Not Bush&#8217;s Claim of 36"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>According to the respected GlobalSecurity.org, there were <a href=\"http:\/\/www.globalsecurity.org\/military\/ops\/iraq_orbat_coalition.htm\">only 21 nations with ground troops in Iraq <\/a>as of February of this year.   No countries have joined the list since then, and a couple of nations have all but withdrawn their contingents.<\/p>\n<p>In <a href=\"http:\/\/fairuse.100webcustomers.com\/fairenough\/nytA67.html\">Bush&#8217;s speech tonight<\/a>, he claimed that GIs are supported by troops from 36 nations.<\/p>\n<p>In fact, only two other coalition nations have more than 1,000 troops in Iraq &#8212; Britain and South Korea.  Seven nations have less than 100 troops in Iraq.  Virtually all of these smaller contingents are confined to non-combat operations.<\/p>\n<p>I guess no one had time to fact-check the speech.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>According to the respected GlobalSecurity.org, there were only 21 nations with ground troops in Iraq as of February of this year. No countries have joined the list since then, and a couple of nations have all but withdrawn their contingents. In Bush&#8217;s speech tonight, he claimed that GIs are supported by troops from 36 nations. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_seopress_robots_primary_cat":"","_seopress_titles_title":"","_seopress_titles_desc":"","_seopress_robots_index":"","_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[676],"coauthors":[],"class_list":["post-3873","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","tag-antiwar-movement"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"meta_box":{"disable_donate_message":"","custom_donate_message":"","subtitle":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3873","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3873"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3873\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3873"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3873"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3873"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/coauthors?post=3873"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}