"Home Guy" wrote in message ...
Robert Green wrote:

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If your idea of participation includes soldiers with boots on the
ground, riding in tanks or APC's and actually firing a few bullets, then
no - Canada was not an active participant in the illegal US-led invasion
of Iraq.

I use the "felony accomplice" rule in rating participation. That's where
the driver AND the shooter get the death penalty even if the driver was
waiting outside in the car. You don't have to shoot a gun to help in the
war effort.

In the end, the US did not call for the "whip vote", and decided to
invade Iraq on it's own accord - not as a UN-sanctioned operation.

If you read some of my past posts, you'll see I didn't believe in either of
the two latest wars. It's foolish to believe you can "deny terrorists a
base to operate" when they can simply move one country over. We forget that
Timothy McVeigh operated freely in the US. Under Bush logic, we should
invade any US state that harbored McVeigh. We blamed the Afghanis for
allowing the Taliban to train terrorists yet WE couldn't remove the Taliban
after ten years of effort by the world's strongest military. We expected of
them what we couldn't do ourselves. US public opinion is now shifted quite
strongly against the war. Took them long enough.

As for Iraq, I would have pressed the Saudis *hard* for reparations. The
terrorists were mostly Saudis backed by Saudi money. Iraq had little or
nothing to do with 9/11 although apologists will draw connections so tenuous
it would make a climate change zealot blush.

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Bobby G.