Let's be serious. The only reason Poland joined the coalition is that it wanted to curry favor with us and to "pay us back" for supporting Poland's entry into NATO. Poland wanted to get into NATO because they only have that almost a country of Belarus separating them and that old Evil Hideous former empire called Russia directly EAST of them. Poland also knows that NATO membership was another punch of the entry ticket into the EU.

Poland could otherwise care less about whether IRAQ is "free" or if there was or was not any terrorists there before the invasion.

Other countries made similar decisions to send troops. Ukraine sent over 2000 troops and joined the Poland led command. Ukraine is in the PARTNERSHIP FOR NATO a sort of NATO LIte on carbs deal. Ukraine would like to be a full NATO partner some day. It fears that monster Russia to it's North. Ukraine also sees that the Poland model worked to get into the EU. Ukraine also has a potential Muslim terrorist problem since of it's own since there are about 20 % TARTAR Muslims of the population in southern province of the Crimea. Ukraine may be cooperating today because tomorrow it may need help against it's own Muslim Tartar minority if they turn into terrorists. The Tartars may learn from the Chechens.

So you see a lot of our smaller allies want something from us they are not there because they beleived that Iraq should have been invaded.