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Canada is a sovereign nation, so she doesn't have any responsibility in Iraq. Canada was not threatened by Iraq in any way. Tens of thousands of Iraqis live in Canada peacefully. Iraq is America's Frankenstein, not Canada's. Canada should be proud of the fact that it's leaders didn't buy into any of the bad information that the Bush administration kept putting out.

On Veterans Day, PM Harper went over to Afghanistan, declared victory, and then got us the hell out of there finally.

Canadian troops helped in many ways, and were not even supposed to be on the frontlines but when Iraq started and Bush took over 80% of his Afghan forces out, Canada stepped up and took a lead role despite popular opinion in Canada against that move.

In the end, the venture was a miserable failure. Some stability has been created in many provinces, but it's still lacking. What we can point to are schools we helped build that got blown up. And hospitals or roads that we helped to build that got blown up. Or bridges, that got blown up.

There was no planning on this war, which is why nation-building was happening even before there was any kind of basic security in place first. So stupid. I understand Obama's plan to do this whole thing slowly and carefully, but in my gut I don't like it. It's time to leave already.

Thats not how it happened. Harper didn't declare victory and then get us out of there. The pull-out was decided back in 2008 as part of a deal Harper had to make with the Liberals to get their support for an extention of the mission.