On Apr 4, 4:33*am, "Robert Green" wrote:
"Home Guy" wrote in ....
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.

Ah well, the next war will be Iran. More taxpayer's dollars.
It's all whipped up by these ****ing Zionists.