“We wanted to send a signal that we support the transition and the development of a democracy in Iraq.”
That, from a Canadian diplomat.
Why, then, didn’t “we” support the effort that enabled this “transition and the development of a democracy in Iraq” to happen in the first place? We in fact came out against all that.
Did we want to ensure that the politically nasty and expensive bit — the stuff Canadian liberals call “the hard part” —would be done by the Americans and over with before actually “supporting” this whole thing?
It’s “a signal”, all right. Just not the one you think you’re sending.
Canada sets mid-2006 for opening of embassy in war-torn Baghdad
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