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| Subject: Call Canada’s Iraq mission by its real name: It’s war Thu Nov 17, 2016 8:19 pm | |
| Last fall, it was one of the Liberal election campaign’s most prominent promises. To quote the platform: “We will end Canada’s combat mission in Iraq.” Simple, straightforward, clear.
A year later, however, Canadian special operations soldiers are very much on the ground in Iraq. There are about 200 of them, a number that has roughly tripled since the Harper government. And those troops are clearly in combat – regularly shooting at and killing the enemy, and themselves being shot at – though Ottawa goes to great lengths to keep the details scarce. That is because the Trudeau government continues to maintain that the combat mission it expanded is actually the combat mission it ended. It’s Orwellian.
http://www.theglobeandmail.com/opinion/editorials/call-canadas-iraq-mission-by-its-real-name-its-war/article32909223/ |
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