Canada Kicks Ass
Canadians now support troops in Afghanistan

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haraldkann @ Wed Mar 22, 2006 2:09 pm

boy they really jammed your gears good...

prime example of brainwashed cannon fodder on a recruiting drive and screaming it's your patriotic duty.

now go polish your masters boots,bootlicker

   



Armyguy @ Thu Mar 23, 2006 8:35 am

Hanns
You have still not told us why you really left? And what do you do now? Flip burgers? No, work at Walmart?

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sthompson @ Thu Mar 23, 2006 2:29 pm

You're confusing two different polls, Harald Khan. You're right, there was a Feburary CTV poll that showed "62% of Canadians would opt against sending troops to Afghanistan should a vote be held in Parliament. Only 27 per cent said they would vote in favour of the mission". <P> But this poll is a new poll, from March, showing that "a modest but clear majority of Canadians -- 55 per cent -- now support the decision to send troops to Afghanistan. Only 41 per cent oppose the deployment". Reporting by CTV clearly compares the two different polls and their results. See for example the very first result you get if you do google "CTV Afghanistan poll": <a href="http://www.ctv.ca/servlet/ArticleNews/story/CTVNews/20060312/afghanistan_poll_060313/20060313?hub=TopStories">Majority of Canadians now back Afghan mission</a>, Updated Tue. Mar. 14 2006 12:32 PM ET, CTV.ca News Staff <P> <blockquote> The poll conducted by the Strategic Counsel for CTV and The Globe and Mail found that a modest but clear majority of Canadians -- 55 per cent -- now support the decision to send troops to Afghanistan. Only 41 per cent oppose the deployment. <P> <b>An earlier poll conducted by the Strategic Counsel on Feb. 23 found that 62 per cent of Canadians would opt against sending troops to Afghanistan should a vote be held in Parliament.</b> Only 27 per cent said they would vote in favour of the mission. <P> Furthermore, 73 per cent of respondents said the decision to send troops to Afghanistan should require parliamentary approval, while 20 per cent said it should not. <P> However, since Canadian Brigadier-General David Fraser assumed command of the multinational brigade in southern Afghanistan on Feb. 28, opinions have changed with one exception. <P> "There is a fair amount of ambivalence, principally in the province of Quebec, about the whole mission and mandate," Tim Woolstencroft, managing partner of The Strategic Counsel polling firm, told CTV.ca on Monday. </blockquote> <P> So whatever you think of the results and their accuracy, the story is legitimately what CTV reported. <P> <p>---<br>"When I told him about class warfare, he asked if we did it in JellO."--translation/paraphrase, The Candidate, CBC<br />

   



FootPrints @ Sat Mar 25, 2006 2:57 pm

I read more about him, and I think you are right. Thanks

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