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I thought the main reason we didn't get involved in Iraq was because we didn't have enough manpower with our commitments in Afghanistan?
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No, we did have troops available to send to Iraq. A very good friend of mine (who has since completed two tours in Afghanistan) was training specifically for the Iraq mission if the UN had authorized force and the Canadian government decided to send our soldiers.
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And seeing as the war in Iraq is going better then the war in Afghanistan currently, I think we should avoid patting ourselves on the back for our brilliant militairy decisions.
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One could easily argue that NATO forces would be doing much better in Afghanistan now if the British and Americans hadn't been so occupied with the Iraq mess for the last 5+ years.