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Quote by: BobbyO  Saddam was NOT well contained.Gee whiz, Oil for food scandal was the merely the tip. The whole embargo argument was collapsing, even in the USA (you might recall the stories about 100,000 deaths due to starvation, kids malnourished ect).
And the USA did ask the world for help in tracking down OBL. We already knew he was in Afghanistan. Now it seems the Canadians wished to pull out of there. |
We clearly have differing views about about "well contained" entails in a geopolitical and national security sense.
As for most Canadians wanting to pull out of Afghanistan, it's because there is a majority view now that our presence is not going to result in achieving any of the objectives that were given as reasons for going there in the first place. And the argument that our General Rick Hiller has given that if we don't fight the Taliban in Kabul we'll fight them in Ottawa is deemed absurd.
Regards
S.