American “friendly fire” is now responsible for over 15% of our military deaths in Afghanistan since 2002: 5 out of 32, assuming that the rest of the injured from this weekend’s strafing run by an American fighter jet on a Canadian troop survive. You can be sure that if we were killing 15% of the Americans who were dying over there, it would be an international, border-closing incident.
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[...] As I pointed out a while back, a huge percentage of Canadian troop deaths in Afghanistan are being caused by American “not-so-friendly” fire, which is a bit ironic considering that we’re only in Afghanistan in order to pander to the Americans — they’re kinda busy in Iraq, so want us to fight some of their other battles. For decades, Canadians have held a peacekeeper role in conflicts abroad, a position that I fully support. Being part of a fighting force in a conflict that we should not be involved with, however, is not something that I can support. [...]
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