(Canada)Layton calls for Afghan pullout, in wake of soldiers' deaths

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Layton calls for Afghan pullout, in wake of soldiers' deaths
Last Updated Sun, 03 Sep 2006 16:23:01 EDT
CBC News

Federal NDP Leader Jack Layton has repeated his earlier calls for Canada to withdraw its troops from Afghanistan, after four soldiers died on the weekend while battling Taliban militants.

"This is the wrong mission for Canada," Layton said Sunday at a news conference in Toronto following the announcement of the soldiers' deaths.

Layton said the focus of the mission has shifted from reconstruction to open war, which he said did not reflect Canada's traditional role as a peacekeeping nation.

"It's not balanced. It doesn’t represent the equilibrium between humanitarian aid, reconstruction and comprehensive peace process that Canadians would want to see."

http://www.cbc.ca/story/canada/national/2006/09/03/afghan-layton.html

[ConcernedCanuk]

1. Jack is right - us voters won't put up with this for very long(hopefully)

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The Liberals got in because we were pissed off with the conservatives . .

NOT because we wanted to join Bush's massacre in the Middle East.

Our voters made a boo-boo

I don't think most of them imagined that we'd get involved in a combat role, as opposed to our traditional peacekeeping role

Looks like our voters are approaching the mentality of the US voters , , ,

and that ain't good.

(sigh)

[Kagemusha]

2. Canada's voters weren't told in the change in the role, were they?

Not being snide, I mean, my understanding is, word of the change only came out after the voting was completed.

[ConcernedCanuk]

3. That's a rhetorical question, right? Geeze, I hope so . . .

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