It was two fold, Central Command in Florida was approached by the Canadian Forces about Iraq, and Central Command looked at the equipment and manpower availability and said no thanks, Canada would have been a burden at the time.
Chretien then skipped over to Afghanistan so that he could look like he was doing womething.
Sure Iraq wasn't UN approved, but the American's had very little interest in Canada's contribution as a fighting force against a battle hardened well equipt Iraqi army, they might have had us help out from a logistics standpoint but thats about it.
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