Michael Dorosh
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TCBF said:In any case, it seems to me that most of the technical disputes some have with the article in question may in fact be POLITICAL disputes on a sub-concious plane. The author's MAIN premise, is that Iraq is a war againt Iran for the future freedom (from Iranian Imperialism) of Iraq, and that contrary to our Marxist-indoctrinated educated elite, the West - on the backs of the US military - is winning it.
Accepting this would lead to the unacceptable conclusion that "A just war is being fought in Iraq by the USA, and by not doing our part to help, WE ARE ON THE WRONG SIDE OF HISTORY."
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How many more young US Marines have to die because of our gutless inability to come to their aid?
I guess our WWII generation truly was our greatest generation.
Tom
I think that the perception on the part of Canadians is that no direct threat to our way of life exists. My own dissatisfaction with US actions is that there was no mandate from the UN. Quite likely that mandate would never have come in a timely manner. Bit of a quandry that. I'm not sorry the US did what it did, in retrospect, and I'm not all that sorry Canada sat it out. I think we've done our bit in Afghanistan and continue to do so. The inability of the US to provide the crucial link between world terrorism, WMD, and Saddam personally is unfortunately a bit of a monkeywrench and a strain on their credibility. It will likely take another disaster on the scale of the WTC to engender much support among Canadians for further extension of the conflict against terrorism. I wonder if our enemies would be stupid enough to do that.