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Originally Posted by MarchHare
Back in 2003, did you feel the same way about Stephen Harper going on the international stage to publicly oppose the Liberal government's decision to keep our troops out of the Iraq war?
Again, I don't agree with the NDP on this issue, but there is a precedent for what they're doing.
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I wasn't really happy about the Iraq thing either, I would have been fine with him raising holy hell in Commons.
If you read some of the really interesting back room stories about the start of the Iraq war though, it wasn't that Jean Chretien said no to the troops to Iraq that did a lot of damage to Canada U.S. relations at the time, it was how he handled it.
There was general back room fear about the fall out and reprocussions, and I believe Harper thought that the letter to the Wall Street might lesson those ripples,
But in my mind he shouldn't have bothered.