Afghanistan has been viewed as being a NATO mission–led by the US, of course–as a result of the 9/11 attacks on the WTC. Iraq is not.

See, for example, http://www.mapleleafweb.com/education/spotlight/issue_12/

Ouch, eat the crow and try avoiding to choke on the bones, Ian.

Guess what, a couple of the rescued Canadian peaceniks posed for a picture in the Baghdad-based Canadian Embassy slated to open this year… you can see a pic of Christian Peacekeeper Team wacko James Loney in that location here… check out the condition of the embassy in the background. There are 41 Canadian combat troops protecting the embassy. No troops on the ground, eh?

http://www.cpt.org/gallery/view_photo.php?set_albumName=album163&id=James_Loney_and_Harmeet_Sooden

Ian, get an apology prepped… not a rebuttal. An apology, Ian.

http://english.pravda.ru/news/world/25-03-2006/77846-hostage-0

If PRAVDA is too quaint for the American Lefties here, try this

http://www.thestate.com/mld/thestate/news/world/14179932.htm

where the current PM explains there have been troops on the ground since the invasion of Iraq.

Canadian troops were even involved in Operation Iraqi Freedom BEFORE the invasion. See here: http://newstandardnews.net/content/index.cfm/items/128

Canadians troops, both “retired” and reservists, are –as in “YES, THEY ARE DEARIE”– on the ground in Iraq helping with security in Canadian-led humanitarian efforts, security for Iraqi administrative personnel, and limited intelligence ops to support the Coalition forces. Additionally, there are some 300 troops in Iraq helping to support the NATO contingent in-country engaged in reconstruction defense teams. Finally, former PM Martin (the liberal who lost to the CONSERVATIVE Harper) in 2003, changed Canadian Military rules to allow enlisted service personnel to temporarily “retire” from their enlistment while serving in other capacities in Iraq or Afghanistan. They have to prove to their unit commanders that they’re in service in Iraq or Afghanistan while the enlistment is held for them.

The CBC report featured the Canadian troops involved in humanitarian defense support efforts –as I noted earlier.

Lastly, while Canada has yet to open her embassy in Iraq, she is using her Jordanian Embassy as a representative for Iraq diplomatic operations. Guess what? There are 37 military attaches in that embassy working daily in Iraq. Hmmm, but there are still no Canadian troops in Iraq, eh?

Sorry to burst some bubbles of the American Lefites who love to shoot blanks in the comments section… “but thems b da facts”.

I’ll wait for an apology from my former debating partner Ian-of-the-Left.

Ian? Paging Ian for some crow… Ian?

Oh, never mind. It was only Ian talking again.

Jesus, sweetie. Brush your teeth, will ya?

”It was an enormous mistake for us to try to occupy [Iraq] after June of 2003, …We have to pull back, and we have to recognize it.”

http://tinyurl.com/k9hc2

Goodness, Sullivan, George Will, Fukuyama, William F Buckley, and now Newtie, all like rats jumping off the sinking ship that is Bushco’s war in Iraq. We were right, you were wrong and we want an abject apology for the destruction and misery you’ve caused in the name of this great country.

This is how we lose our freedom, not at the point of a sword, but rather through the clamoring of idiots….

What hurts the most…is that our men and women, willing to fight for what they were lead to believe was ‘a truth..that weapons of mass destruction’ was there..and Sadim Insane was OUR MOST HORRIBLE PROBLEM.

This President was NOT looking for the REAL TERRORIST who attacked our country. HE was just a second thought!
BUSH/CHENEY had their war! What a perfect thing to put us into more horror and our men and women loosing their lives for….(let’s see..what was that…Oh Yes!…this..SLAM DUNK WAR)

If you can still believe that you are being TOLD THE TRUTH
by the most horrible leaders this country has EVER SEEN,
then KEEP YOUR BLINDERS ON…REPORT YOUR FELLOW NEIGHBORS WHO DON’T AGREE WITH THESE GOD-LIKE
KILLER-CHARGED GIANTS….(wasn’t that what the Germans had to deal with…KIDS turning in their own parents, because they didn’t believe in HITLER?) Are WE now reaching that same type of fear?

NOOOO…BECAUSE GEORGE W. BUSH thinks HE has recieved the message from…GOD..himself…that HE (THE BUSH) has been choosen BY GOD….to take over the world
THAT WAY…BUSH/CHENEY team can use RELIGION to forge through…and KILL…and DESTROY…AND TAKE OVER A COUNTRY THAT HAS BEEN FIGHTING AND DISAGREEING FOR LONGER THAN MOST OF US HAVE LIVED ON THIS EARTH.

So…to all of you who think THE WORLD of this entire ADMINISTRATION and it’s TWO..BLESSED BY GOD..TO BECOME GOD’S…then you have just been lead to the slaughter….You are HIS sheep..and you will look in utter shock as you see our nation crumble.

UNLESS….someone comes to their senses. Afterall, THE BUSH has already stated that it will not be HIM who will have to bring this to an end…HE will be leaving his BLOODY MESS for someone…after him…to clean up.
WHATTA…..man!

“You, like Ann Coulter, need to learn more about Canada before shooting your mouth off.”

And you, like Al Franken, need to learn more about Jesus.

Jesus, you see, loves you.

Everyone else thinks you’re an asshole.

Eric in Hollywood

“Wow. I guess we’re in the “shoot the messenger” phase. Like those commie bastard reporters who showed us what was really going on in Vietnam, right?

Except they didn’t report what was really going on in Vietnam. We won the Tet Offensive, according not only to our millitary standards, but also to General Giap, the commander of the Vietcong army. He was on the verge of surrender, but after he saw the way the press portrayed it as an American loss, the General knew all he had to do was hang in long enough for the US public to tire of the war and demand our retreat. Cronkite: “That’s the way it is”… My Ass!!!

Meanwhile, the press never covered the horrible massacres inflicted on the Vietnamese people by the Vietcong during the war. I have seen estimates that we had killed about 50,000 civilians during the conflict, much of that via indiscriminate bombings by the US air force. This is indeed horrible and unfortunate, as all casualties of war are. The tally from the Vietcong during that same period, ? Over 400,000!!! The Vietcong indiscriminately killed hundred of thousands of “their own people”(Google Hue in 1968 for an example), yet our soldiers were labeled by liberals and the press as the “Baby-Killers”. This starting to sound familiar??? The MSP has no problem reporting our mistakes and misteps in Iraq, and I have no problem with them doing so. But they constantly ignore or downplay the murderous ways and methodologies of the people we and the Iraqi Army are fighting against. And when they do cover it, the subtext insinuates it’s our fault they behave and murder as they do.

Here is more on Vietnam.

Those “Canadian combat troops” must have been imposters; AFAIK there are no Canadian combat troops in Iraq. Canada refused to join the US led invasion because she believed it was not legitimate under International Law. You, like Ann Coulter, need to learn more about Canada before shooting your mouth off.

Canadian media is a tad more liberal than the American MSM and equally controlled by the Left in that country. But their coverage is markedly different from American MSM.

For instance, this morning CBC-TV led with a piece highlighting the Canadian troops humanitarian efforts in Iraq and Afghanistan by showing a mobile combat troop unit –heavily armed– handing out water bottles to little Iraqi kids, standing around kicking a new soccer ball and leaving a dozen behind for the kids, and talking with Iraqi citizens.

The attitude of the newsreader lacked the sneering dismissal tone one often hears from American journalists, the report still underscored the dangerous nature of the mission, but also pointed out the immense good will created by the Canadian combat troops interacting with Iraqis while on patrol. The piece ended with a shot of dawn at the Canadian base and troops raising the flag.

What a stark and dramatic contrast to the anti-troop, anti-WOT, MSM’s coverage of our own troops here in the US. And do we ever see American journalists covering Brit troops? Canadian troops? Other military? Irrespective of the dangers of the Sunni triangle –our MSM is failing America in not telling an accurate story in Iraq or the success in closing down financial ops of al Qaeda, bin Laden, and the intern’l community’s support of American intelligence efforts since 9/11.

Bruce, you’re dead on. I hope you DON’T rest.

So, my friend, YOU LIED.

As for the poster’s comment: “the President should be able to wiretap the phones of known terrorists, right? Not according to our Large Media”, no one has come forward with an example of the “Large Media” doing that so can I assume that that comment was also a lie?

Here’s my synopsis:

BLAH BLAH BLAH BLAH BLAH BLAH BLAH BLAH BLAH BLAH BLAH BLAH BLAH BLAH BLAH BLAH BLAH BLAH BLAH BLAH BLAH BLAH BLAH BLAH BLAH. BUSH LIED.

In other words, gentle readers: complete spew, distortion, and utter fantasy.

“Turdish,” if there is such a word. If not, then I hereby proclaim it in the name of that which my St. Bernard produces on a daily basis.

To paraphrase Kevin Kline in “A Fish Called Wanda:”

…”ass-HOLE!!!!!!!”

Eric in Hollywood

“You can call it the “Ian Rule” or IR for short.”

Don’t flatter yourself, dimwit.

You’re a craven liar, and everyone here knows it.

I would normally react negatively to such arrogance, but considering you buy into a worldview that seems to think all of your dissidents are abject morons, I’m hardly surprised by the complete assholery demonstrated yet again by a textbook moonbat.

Ian, you’re a pawn. Either slither back into the hole from whence you came, or begin to realize that your entire self-worth is based upon lies.

In either case, for you to cite an “Ian’s Law” only further demonstrates how completely empty your arrogance is.

Jesus, is it me, or this guy more conceited than a sewer rat with a taste for Broadway quim?

Oy.

Eric in Hollywood