With no dog in this U.S.-Iran fight, it’s time for Canada to get out of Iraq

Donald Trump’s illegal assassination of Soleimani is all the excuse we need to pull out of yet another unwinnable, senseless war.

Canadian Armed Forces infantrymen deployed on Joint Task Force Operation Impact board a CC-130J Hercules for Iraq to begin their seven-month tour at Ali Al Salem Air Base in Kuwait on Nov. 27, 2019. DND photograph courtesy of Cpl. Jerome Lessard

Opinion

BY SCOTT TAYLOR

January 8, 2020

OTTAWA—In the immediate aftermath of the U.S. assassination of Iranian general Qassem Soleimani, American pundits and politicos took to the airwaves to justify this state-sponsored extra-judicial execution. We were told by these cheerleaders that Soleimani was the terrorist of all terrorists and ...

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