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To: Solon who wrote (41307)	11/16/2005 12:49:09 PM
From: Lazarus_Long	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 90947

Let's not get shirty here, fella. I asked why you got involved in a war you had nothing to do with - WW1 (also WW2). You said you were coming to the aid of your mother country who had committed troops. I just asked why that same logic didn't apply in Iraq. It appears you apply or don't apply it arbitrarily as it suits you. OK. But say that, not that if Britain goes to war, Canada will. I could just as easily point out your absence in peacekeeping. Peacekeeping? I've pointed out many times that your lovable Europeons sat there for YEARS and watched genocide in the Balkans until the US led them in and stopped it. Where was Canada? You're in NATO too. You couldn't kick them in the *? "Peacekeeping" is just another form of war. Frankly, I'd get off that moral high horse if I were you. They're too experienced" Exactly. Stick the flag up your ass and give me a quarter pounder with cheese and extra onions... Gimme a break. You send N 45-year-old Canadian soldiers against the same number of 18-year-old US soldiers and we'll whoop your *. Everyone (you and I especially) know the endurance and craziness of an 18-year-old would put a 45-year-old to shame. Your original question is meaningless. There is good reason all nations pick late pubescent boys for combat.

To: Solon who wrote (41307)	11/16/2005 7:58:13 PM
From: TimF	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 90947

"As of June 30, 2001, there were 797 US personnel (1 troop, 756 civilian police, and 40 observers) in worldwide UN peace operations, accounting for 1.8% of total UN peacekeepers" en.wikipedia.org From the same link - "The US, however, pays 27% of the UN peacekeeping budget, down slightly from 30% before 2000. This amounted to $844 million in 2002. The US also deploys units, not under UN control, alongside UN peacekeepers in the Balkans, East Timor, and the Sinai." Tim