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Leading the Coalition's Navy
Canada led the multinational naval taskforce in the Persian Gulf. Some 1,300 Canadian troops, aboard state-of-the-art, multi-billion-dollar Canadian warships, rallied to protect U.S. aircraft carriers so they could "safely" position themselves to launch air strikes against Iraq.

Coordinating Air Battles
Canadian military personnel aboard E-3 AWACs aircraft helped to direct the war. E-3 aircraft are mobile nerve centres of modern air war. Canadian crews helped coordinate and manage air battles, and filled command, weapons control and communications roles.

Providing War Planners
Canadian war planners worked among the war strategists at U.S. Central Command (CentCom) headquarters at McDill Air Force Base, Florida. At least two dozen of these Canadian war strategists moved with CentCom when it relocated to the Persian Gulf, just before the war.

Providing Military Transport Planes
At least three Canadian CC-130 military transport planes were listed by the U.S. military as having helped to supply coalition forces during the war.
You realize that this is no secret, everyone in Canada already knows, or at least should know it if they pay attention. Canada said it would not go into Iraq with the Coalition. It didn't. Canada also said that in the spirit of friendship they would help the U.S. in any other way. We did. What's your point? You think you're revealing the secret of the century? sorry to burst your bubble. Any other assumption made on Canada's position is just that, an assumption.

However, that being said, i must honestly say that I don't think Canada did the right thing. We either should have helped the U.S. all the way, by joining the coalition, or preferably we should have stayed out altogether. But of course, Canada is very hesitant about going to war with the U.S. since American soldiers can't seem to differentiate between enemy soldiers and Canadian soldiers... Does any American even KNOW about how an American fighter jet killed 4 Canadians in Afghanistan because they thought they were enemy soldiers? Didn't think so.

So before you go criticizing other countries' foreign policy, check out your own first.
F L E S H Reviewed by F L E S H on . Canadian Complicity in the War on Iraq Canadian Complicity in the War on Iraq http://www.nowar.ca/complicity.shtml Many Canadians were dismayed to recently learn that the Canada Pension Plan (CPP) is investing our retirement savings in manufacturers of dozens of world's deadliest conventional weapons, and their delivery systems. Unfortunately, forcing Canadians to invest in businesses that profit from war is not an aberration in Canadian policy; it is completely consistent with our Canadian tradition. Canada has been a Rating: 5