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Canada to end bombing missions in Iraq and Syria
2016-02-09
Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau said on Monday Canada would pull out six jets that have been bombing targets in Iraq and Syria, ending Canada's controversial combat role in the effort against Islamic State.

Canada will end its bombing missions by Feb. 22 but keep two surveillance planes in the region as well as refueling aircraft, and triple the number of soldiers training Kurdish troops in northern Iraq to about 200, from about 70 currently, the government said.

"In any mission, you need to make choices. We can't do everything. In our decision, we were guided by our desire to do what we could do best to help in the region and to do it in the right way," Trudeau said during a news conference.

"The people terrorized by ISIL every day don't need our vengeance, they need our help."
You help them by killing the people who would kill them, Mr. Trudeau...
Trudeau won an election last October promising to pull out six jets that have been bombing targets in Iraq and Syria but had been under pressure from allies unhappy with the decision.

He said Canada would keep two Aurora surveillance planes in the region, as well as a refueling aircraft.
Deutsche Welle adds:
Trudeau made the promise to end his country's combat role shortly after being elected, but a recent poll showed that some two-thirds of Canadians support the Arclight airstrikes, or even want them expanded, after "IS"-inspired attacks in Jakarta and Burkina Faso
...The country in west Africa that they put where Upper Volta used to be. Its capital is Oogadooga, or something like that. Its president is currently Blaise Compaoré, who took office in 1987 and will leave office feet first, one way or the other...
 killed seven Canadian nationals last month.
Posted by:Steve White

#3  6 jets? If not so sad would be funny.
Posted by: borgboy   2016-02-09 12:52  

#2  and triple the number of soldiers training Kurdish troops in northern Iraq

Sometimes liberals do the right thing.
Posted by: phil_b   2016-02-09 02:36  

#1  No more CF-18's, more SPECOPS.
Posted by: JosephMendiola   2016-02-09 00:30  

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