6th British soldier dies in Afghanistan.
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RE: 6th British soldier d
It wasn't "our" place. There was nothing saying we HAD to go. However the United States is our best friend and closest ally. We went to assist them, after all they were attacked. Furthermore, you may be forgetting, either by chance or by willful intention, to remember that Canadians were killed on September 11th. Lastly, and most importantly, Article V of the NATO Treaty, which states:
It wasn't "our" place. There was nothing saying we HAD to go. However the United States is our best friend and closest ally. We went to assist them, after all they were attacked. Furthermore, you may be forgetting, either by chance or by willful intention, to remember that Canadians were killed on September 11th. Lastly, and most importantly, Article V of the NATO Treaty, which states:
RE: 6th British soldier d
OK. That's why we're there in Afghanistan. Because of some damn treaty. So we are technically stuck there. But what about when other NATO countries pull out of Afghnaistan? It would give Canada the right to pull out, right?
OK. That's why we're there in Afghanistan. Because of some damn treaty. So we are technically stuck there. But what about when other NATO countries pull out of Afghnaistan? It would give Canada the right to pull out, right?
Re: RE: 6th British soldier d
The treaty isn't binding Jon. Read Article 5 again, especially this part:
We never had to go to Afghanistan. The most we HAD to do was verbally support the U.S. and allow them to fly aircraft through our airspace on their way to Afghanistan, something we did before September 11th. No, there was no "damn treaty" that MADE us go to Afghanistan.
P.S. We pulled out of Afghanistan for 5 months to reorganize back in 2002.
JonB2004 said:
The treaty isn't binding Jon. Read Article 5 again, especially this part:
We never had to go to Afghanistan. The most we HAD to do was verbally support the U.S. and allow them to fly aircraft through our airspace on their way to Afghanistan, something we did before September 11th. No, there was no "damn treaty" that MADE us go to Afghanistan.
P.S. We pulled out of Afghanistan for 5 months to reorganize back in 2002.
JonB2004 said:
Au contraire, you're in an open forum, if you want to debate in private, get a room.
RE: 6th British soldier d
Well no actually anyone at all can join in, sorry....that's the way it is. Besides I don't really see you debating him, more like pestering him on and on with silly "why Daddy? Why Daddy?" questions.
You don't want to answer me that's your right but you're pretty silly to think you have even half the right to ask me to butt out. You don't. Go get your own forum.
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Well no actually anyone at all can join in, sorry....that's the way it is. Besides I don't really see you debating him, more like pestering him on and on with silly "why Daddy? Why Daddy?" questions.
You don't want to answer me that's your right but you're pretty silly to think you have even half the right to ask me to butt out. You don't. Go get your own forum.
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Re: Forum Protocol • Afghanistan Answers
Every member has the right to post whatever they may see fit, within the bounds of the forum rules and guidelines and whatnot, whether or not it may happen to intervene into a "private" spat between two or more members. If you don't want other members to read or contribute, then you shouldn't be having this conversation in an open forum, now should you?
In relation to the answers to the Afghanistan mission, I think that it was quite a reasonable response. We were bound by a treaty to take measures which our previous Government of Canada had deemed to be appropriate, and the Government, at the time, chose to send the Canadian Forces in a moderate showing to assist in restoring peace and order in the area. While Canada has indeed taken part in shows of force, these have been a means to an end.
No.[i said:
Every member has the right to post whatever they may see fit, within the bounds of the forum rules and guidelines and whatnot, whether or not it may happen to intervene into a "private" spat between two or more members. If you don't want other members to read or contribute, then you shouldn't be having this conversation in an open forum, now should you?
In relation to the answers to the Afghanistan mission, I think that it was quite a reasonable response. We were bound by a treaty to take measures which our previous Government of Canada had deemed to be appropriate, and the Government, at the time, chose to send the Canadian Forces in a moderate showing to assist in restoring peace and order in the area. While Canada has indeed taken part in shows of force, these have been a means to an end.
RE: 6th British soldier d
First off, Jon, you cannot stop people from offering input. However I am not debating with anyone else, therefore my focus is solely on you and you alone. If you reciprocate the action, then the debate is between us.
Now to answer your question:
We went because our ally was attacked, canadian citizens had been killed, and because NATO asked us to go.
I would also like to point out that we didn't have to go to South Africa, World War I, World War II, Korea, Cyprus, Vietnam, The Golan Heights, The Gulf War, Somalia, Rwanda, Haiti, The Former Yugoslavia, Eritrea, or The Congo.
First off, Jon, you cannot stop people from offering input. However I am not debating with anyone else, therefore my focus is solely on you and you alone. If you reciprocate the action, then the debate is between us.
Now to answer your question:
We went because our ally was attacked, canadian citizens had been killed, and because NATO asked us to go.
I would also like to point out that we didn't have to go to South Africa, World War I, World War II, Korea, Cyprus, Vietnam, The Golan Heights, The Gulf War, Somalia, Rwanda, Haiti, The Former Yugoslavia, Eritrea, or The Congo.
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That is pretty ridicoulus, too young to understand why, but he understand that there is no reason to be there, except helping the americans coorporations building their dreampipeline, why do you think amid karzai was a unocal adviser( the coorporation who are supposed to build this dream pipeline) before becoming leader of afganisthan?
Mogz said:
That is pretty ridicoulus, too young to understand why, but he understand that there is no reason to be there, except helping the americans coorporations building their dreampipeline, why do you think amid karzai was a unocal adviser( the coorporation who are supposed to build this dream pipeline) before becoming leader of afganisthan?
RE: 6th British soldier d
OK. We went to Afghanistan because 24 Canadians died on September 11th. As much as it was awful that all of those Canadians died, it still wasn't our place to go there even if the our ally was attacked.
And you are saying that we didn't have to go to any other war. Well, why did we go? It sounds like we just don't know how to mind our own business.
OK. We went to Afghanistan because 24 Canadians died on September 11th. As much as it was awful that all of those Canadians died, it still wasn't our place to go there even if the our ally was attacked.
And you are saying that we didn't have to go to any other war. Well, why did we go? It sounds like we just don't know how to mind our own business.