Obama not aware of Canadian forces in Kandahar.

Below is an article from a Canadian blog liberal catnip. The article shows that Obama is not being clued in about what is happening in Canada. We just finished a debate on Afghanistan which resulted in a compromise motion that both Liberals and Conservatives (the two largest parties) agreed to support. This motion extends our mission until 2011. There is much opposition to the war in Canada and the other two main parties (NDP and BLoc Quebecois) want to end the combat mission in 2009.
The cry in the Canadian parliament was for others to take on the combat role, the one Obama doesn't realise we even have! Our prime minister is very pro-U.S. and pro-Bush even. If he wants to get noticed he had better do something to piss off the U.S.


Sunday, March 02, 2008
Quote du Jour: Memo to Obama - Canadian Soldiers are Fighting and Dying in Afghanistan

Barack Obama via the Times Online:


“You can’t have a situation where the United States and Britain are called on to do the dirty work and nobody else wants to engage in actual fire-fights with the Taliban.”

Apparently, Canadian soldiers don't count for anything.

The fact that 79 of our soldiers have died in that useless war - the latest one just this weekend - means absolutely nothing to Senator Obama. They are invisible.

This, coming from a politician who didn't even attend all of the Foreign Relations committee hearings on Afghanistan.


...since joining Foreign Relations, Obama has missed three meetings on a "new strategy" in Afghanistan, a country he has never visited.

Obama was absent from a January 31 meeting this year, and also was not present for a hearing on Sept. 21, 2006. He did attend a March 8, 2007 hearing on a new Afghanistan strategy.

On Feb. 15, 2007, Obama also missed a committee hearing on U.S. ambassadors to Iraq and Afghanistan.

Yet, he has the audacity to be lecturing other countries on what needs to be done while ignoring Canada's role?

And how does his campaign answer that? It changes the subject:


Obama spokesman Bill Burton, who acknowledged Obama has never been to Afghanistan, said Obama's missed meetings and the lack of a visit. [sic] to Afghanistan does not change the fact that Obama was right on Iraq.

How insulting.

h/t marisacat