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Originally posted by Colin
As far as Britain, I'd hardly call 40,000 troops "token" help and I think it insults the British soldiers for anyoen to say that.
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Those are old figures from before the war or at the start it was a "pledge" figure it's not even a quarter of that.. as of May of this year the total UK troop commitment was 8400. It's still not a token amount though. Even against the US forces of fifteen times that. Most other countries were though.. besides one or two stand outs at the couple or several thousand level it's a hodge podge of 100 troops here, 200 de-miners there, 100 police here..
The US is currently making a big deal about Austarlia withdrawng it's current 250 troops from air traffic ontrol and other non-action duties as if the Iraqi's would miss 250 aussies helping out the US in contracter roles.