4 Canadian soldiers killed, 8 wounded in Kandahar

[CHIMO]

Source: CBC News

Largest joint U.S-Canadian offensive since Korean war
The CBC's Alan Waterman, reporting from Kandahar, said the military have not released information about the identity or condition of the injured yet. Commenting after Vance spoke, Waterman said at least one of the eight had been flown to Germany.

Waterman said the soldiers were nearing the tail end of a four-day offensive that was the largest joint U.S.-Canadian offensive since the Korean war.

The offensive, which began Tuesday, saw Canadian and U.S. soldiers, split into two battle groups. They went into a large swath of land in Kandahar's Zhari district to engage Taliban forces, who usually try to organize munitions and prepare plans for the fighting season in the summer, Waterman said.

The operation was aimed at disrupting the Taliban as they organized and to "push back the fighting season as much as possible."



Read more: http://www.cbc.ca/world/story/2009/03/20/afghanistan-soldiers.html

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Conclusion.

The Canadian Military are ... Thier only knowledge is "kill the scumbags" and praise the dead.
We nead some sanity in this world.

[applegrove]

1. Hopefully the increase in troops from America will result in more stability. At least

where the IEDs are concerned.

[ConcernedCanuk]

2. A "surge" just means more deaths on both sides - SIX YEARS in Iraq - ask the Iraqis

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Master Cpl. Scott Francis Vernelli, Cpl. Tyler Crooks, Trooper Jack Bouthillier and Trooper Corey Joseph Hayes were killed on Friday in two separate roadside bomb blasts in Kanadahar province on Friday

KIDS

We are losing our youngest for illegal wars

Shame on our Government

Dammm

[Tim01]

3. I don't think we are ever leaving Iraq now.

Maybe Afghanistan since we don't need them so much.

[ConcernedCanuk]

5. I agree - they didn't build that humongous embassy/fortress for the Iraqis

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USA has NO intention of ever leaving Iraq

Or the Gulf now filled with nuke subs

USA's Empirical Domination continues

(sigh)

[daleo]

6. So tragic

The fellow third from the left looks like he is hardly out of high school.

[Arctic Dave]

7. I ran into quite a few of your countrymen and women in Mexico.

One just came back from Afganistan and his wife was shipping out for Afghanistan. I not sure if us dumb Americans tell you guys but we do appreciate your friendship and I personally want to apologize for our negligent government of the last eight years.

Oops, Had a geographical brain fluff.

[applegrove]

8. But then they will start to negotiate with those Taliban planting the IEDs and

it will all calm down.

[ConcernedCanuk]

9. LOL - yeah right

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The Taliban will just LOVE more occupiers in their country.

They'll give them the same love they gave the Soviets.

(sigh)

[applegrove]

10. The Taliban offered to hand over OBL right after 9/11.

[LynnTheDem]

4. Enough.

Enough dying & killing for nothing.

Enough.

[btwhiteh]

11. Nothing!?!? These are the people behind 9/11

Say what you want about Iraq. But the war in Afghanistan is the front line in the War on Terror. Now that we've won Iraq, we'll finish the job in Afghanistan.
The difference between us and the Soviets is we are not occupiers. We're liberators. Just ask the women who've been saved from the oppressive Taliban regime. You tell those women it was for nothing. You may be free but they weren't. Now they are and they have to stay that way.
Freedom is worth dying for.

[cambie]

12. No they are not the people behind 9/11

Taliban have no international agenda and never did, they just want the occupiers out of their country. Not hard to relate to that is it. And as for the oppressed women, that is what GW has been telling us for years whenever he runs out of valid reasons for being there, which takes only a few seconds. We are all kind of fatigued with George era lies here.

[btwhiteh]

13. I'm glad I found someone that speaks for all of us.

To harbor and give safe haven to terrorists operating out of your country for years, IS having an international agenda. Is called having a de facto paramilitary. It is the same thing that Saddam Hussein was doing with al-Qaida in his country. But we all know how fatigued we are with facts.

The freedom these the women and people are experiencing is real and has nothing to do with Bush. I am no fan of war. I just know to give the country back to the totalitarians that had it before is a crime against their people and ours.

But I'm sorry are you speaking for us Americans or the Taliban?

[EFerrari]

15. This is parody, right?

Saddam wasn't doing squat with al Qaida. He detested him and they hated him. Women in Afghanistan are not free and the Taliban run much of the country.

And the worst crime against the Afghani people was when we bombed the fuck out of them because George Bush needed to pretend he had a brain or a clue.

[ConcernedCanuk]

16. What exactly was Saddam "doing" with al-Qaida in his country? - Saddam was a sunni moslem,

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Saddam Hussein was a sunni moslem, and Alqaeda consists mainly of Shia Moslems following the Wahhabi faith based in Saudi Arabia. They hated each other - I see NO evidence that Saddam supported alQuaida, or had anything to do with 9/11

AND

From an article I found, read below:

An exhaustive review of more than 600,000 Iraqi documents that were captured after the 2003 U.S. invasion has found no evidence that Saddam Hussein’s regime had any operational links with Osama bin Laden’s al Qaida terrorist network.

On March 12, the same website reported that:

The Pentagon on Wednesday canceled plans for broad public release of a study that found no pre-Iraq war link between late Iraqi President Saddam Hussein and the al Qaida terrorist network.

Rather than posting the report online and making officials available to discuss it, as had been planned, the U.S. Joint Forces Command said it would mail copies of the document to reporters — if they asked for it. The report won’t be posted on the Internet.

source

[CHIMO]

14. Welcome

I have to agree with you. Once you are dead you are free.
The people in 9/11 were from a different country. They said that they wanted their country back.
Seems mixed up to me. But still the killing goes on. And I presume that the "scumbags" believe that freedom is worth dying for.