Iraq: We Need Canadian Troops

Iraq has a national assembly? Paid for by who? HAHAHAHAHA

Ahh, no thanks.

Get the British and Americans out, and we may think about it.

Dang. Sorry Iraq, I wish we could help, but due to years of cutbacks we just cannot sustain anymore military commitments. Even if we could, most of our population wants to see your country become a total shithole. Why? So we can have one more reason to bitch at the Americans, of course!

The only people who have an interest in turning Iraq into a "shithole" where those who invaded and bombed the country into its current condition.

I agree that the occupation forces must withdraw entirely from Iraq before Canada or the UN should even begin to consider making a peacekeeping committment because as long as the Americans, Brits, and the puppet government they support remain in there, the resistance will continue to try and push them out.

What I don't understand is why do so many people write-off the ability of moderate Iraqis to form their own government. The installed government will never succeed because Iraqis have never been asked how they would like to be governed, but rather told how things will be and then shot at or imprisoned if they demontrate how they don't like the government they are given. Once Iraq is given back to the Iraqis, then Canada should do all it can to help them (regardless of how they decide to repatriate their resources from the American corporations).

Hello!?!? Ever heard of something called an election? During an election every citizen gets a chance to cast something called a vote for a party or person that they want to govern the country. This is what the interim government and coalition are going to try and accomplish in Iraq. The insurgents don't want elections however, they want to rule by force of arms, that is why they attack the coalition. An election would fairly determine whom the Iraqi people want to have governing their country, it's really that simple. What is so hard for some people to understand?

Without coalition forces there to protect the Canadians then it would be suicide to send Canadian troops unless its a LARGE number of them, well-armed and well equipped. But those two requirements are impossible for the Canadian military to meet so the point is moot.

Canadian troops would be viewed as infidels, occupiers, and unwanted foreigners just like the other coalition forces.

One thing the liberals (both in the USA and Canada) fail to realize is it doesn't matter if you're a liberal, a moderate, a conservative, or politically ignorant, unless you're a fundamentalist muslim, you are an INFIDEL. If the coalition forces left then the Canadians came along with a 'Hey we're here to help!' there would be a lot more beheadings to watch I'm afraid.

"This is what the interim government and coalition are going to try and accomplish in Iraq."

So what's taking them so long? With all international agencies pulled from Iraq due to excessive violence against the occupation that is going so "well", it will be impossible to determine whether any American-sponsored election will be fair. Hell, Rumsfeld himself said that entire populations of Iraq will be barred from voting because of such widespread opposition to the occupying forces... so that pretty much leaves former Iraqi exiles taking refuge in the green zone the sole voters in such an election.

"The insurgents don't want elections however, they want to rule by force of arms, that is why they attack the coalition....."

They attack the coalition because they are the ones ruling by the force of arms, not the Iraqis. This is why the most frequent targets of resistance attacks are the green zone, pipelines, and collaborating Iraqi police forces. The sources of power for the occupation. You can't say that they don't want elections simply because the resist the efforts of occupying powers to govern them.

"An election would fairly determine whom the Iraqi people want to have governing their country, it's really that simple. What is so hard for some people to understand?"

I agree. Have you ever considered that truly full and fair elections will never be held in Iraq because it is already known that the Iraqis won't vote for the occupation's puppet governmnet anyway? Again, you can reference Rumsfeld to see what I mean. In Afghanistan, all but 3 of the 15 candidates on the ballot withdrew out of protest because of suspicions of massive fraud.

Sorry, I don't share your prejudices. Most Iraqis are not fundamentalist extremists.

Moderate Iraqis, like people from anywhere else, don't want their country to be occupied by a foriegn power and they do respect the religious beliefs of others (which I don't think I'd be able to say about the fundamentalist christians that inhabit the southern states, they seem to be a special type of bigot). Otherwise, any offers of foreign aid would first have to be formally accepted by the Iraqis rather than just dumping supplies, they may or may not need, onto them from the air.

I'd also like to add, there is nother more democratic than allowing the people to peacefully form their own government, no matter what shape it may take.

Bull, if you are protecting Iraqi families by torturing and murdering them you are considered an infidel. They don't need us there and they don't need any of the invasion forces there either. They will need help with trying to clean up the depleted uranium that is littered all over the country but I don't think we should send our soldiers there to die from radiation exposure, unless they volunteer to go. They won't want to chance having children after they go to that western made hell.

Iraq has 100% foreign-ownership. That's a mess, not democracy.

The grat thing about the UN? It never leaves.

Look at it this way. Suppose the US had invaded Canada instead of Iraq; Montreal under siege, along with Regina and Winnepeg. All Canadian rushing toward the border, would be shot on sight, men, women, and children. Then the US would behead Martin and put a bounty on his children and top officials. Of course, the US would sieze the oil fields to help pay for the damage you Canadians created. Of course, you Canadians would welcome use with open arms at relieving you of your bad ruler, installing a proper puppet leader, and trying to show you what freedom and democracy really means.

I suppose like total ingrates, you would fight like hell. So then we would call on countries like Iraq to come in as peacekeepers, and help put down the rebellion.

I think the answer lies somewhere in this metaphor or nightmare, which is very real to some people.

I think the real answer is to keep on insisting that anybody who breaks international be tried at the ICC. That would put the American leaders in the dock beside other outlaw extremists.

That would send a strong message to everybody...insurgents and invaders alike. The world has had enough, it's time to behave like adults.

That'll never happen though. Not with oil money at stake.

Canada should send troops to Iraq to combat the insurgency. Although we wouldn't be able to send many at this point in time, the show of support to the Iraqi people would be more important for peace and security, we could urge our NATO allies to help combat the insurgency as well.