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You guys certainly dodged a bullet Hydrogen. Had Harper been elected two years earlier Canada would very likely be fighting in Iraq,
Agreed...and then the Conservatives would have been relegated to the opposition benches for another decade.
But what about Canada effectively having the third most personnel in Iraq through our exchange postings, and that not being acknowledged in Parliament at all? Seems the Liberals had no problems with sending Canadians to Iraq, they just didn't want to tell the public about it.
and now Harper is defying the will of Parliament in the case of these men and women. This is the point you continue to miss.
I have already said that if Parliament really meant it, they would have made it a confidence vote. I don't appreciate, them politicking with the lives of these men and women any more than you do.
Iraq never had anything to do with securing American freedom and to continue to use that rhetoric is continuing the death and destruction of the war.
Agreed. The Bush administration committed a strategic blunder that will probably take another decade to make right.
Why are so many cons so aghast at soldiers refusing to kill innocent human beings? it's beyond me. I guess if cons signed contracts to kill innocents civilians they would blindly do so.
Are you trying to infer that soldiers are being ordered to randomly kill civilians? I would like to see your evidence on this. Show me the ROEs that given permission to US soldiers in Iraq to kill random civilians.
I assure you no real soldier would ever willingly kill civilians. Yes, abuses do happen. And those are criminal actions that should correctly be prosecuted (court-martialled) to the full extent of the law. But to say that serving men and women would agree to randomly kill civilians is truly a disgusting statement that shows how very little you understand what military service involves. Also...if this is your contention, are we to presume that US deserters are serial killers?
War is difficult. Nobody said it would be easy. And these individuals knew or should have known what they signed up for. They should also have known that they were liable to be sent to any conflict that their government (elected by the people) thought they would be needed to prosecute. To sign up and then walk off and abandon their comrades is truly despicable behaviour.
But what is worse, is that they have not chosen to make a political statement by accepting prison sentences and protesting at home. They have chosen a convenient first-world refuge. When they have not qualified under our laws for refuge, they demand exemptions. And you want us to bump truly deserving refugees who are escaping life threatening conflict to make a political statement by accepting people who want to run from a few years in prison (a consequence of poor choices they made)?