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No I dont think there is a covert war going on. I think for the moment the US and Israel are fully content on letting things move along slowly all the while hoping that what happened in other middle eastern nations happens in Iran, thereby problem is solved, and and their hands are clean.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FckLO8HcNyo http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2006/dec/13/secondworldwar.iran http://www.meforum.org/2167/iran-genocidal-incitement-israel Youtube video to view, a couple of articles to read. Just because you had your head stuck in the sand, does not mean the rest of us did likewise. If Irans government is promoting "death to Israel" Imagine what would happen if they had access to nukes.

No the war of 1812 is not and was not the largest war we have been involved in. With around 8% of the total population directly involved in one way or another with the war in Europe during World War 1 and roughly 3% of the population or 39% of the Expeditionary forces becoming casualties, I think that World War 1 ranks right up there, and that’s not even bringing up financial cost. During World War 2, with 9.7% of the Canadian Population directly involved in operations overseas, and close to 1% of them coming back home with physical injuries or not coming back home at all I think it would be an understatement that it affected less people then the US civil war. After the fall of France, and with the fate of Britain hanging in the balance, it looked like Canada would be the next leader of the Allies. During WW2, tens of thousands of allied aircrews were trained during the war; Canada supported England with grain shipments, participated in the Battle of Atlantic, and arguably made the most important contribution in the Dieppe Raid in 1942. This war involved so much Canadian effort, and so much sacrifice that it is the largest and most effort consuming war Canada has been involved in. During the American War of Independence, and the War of 1812 Canada/BNA was invaded, and out existence was directly threatened by the US, while during the American Civil war, although the threat was present, the US was not likely to invade Canada/BNA because England was THE superpower at that point in time. And to add to your little issue with entanglements in the Middle East, Canada was on the terrorist hit list before we went to Afghanistan, remember when Canada was busy sending Canadian troops in poorly led missions following extremely stupid borderline criminal feel-good missions. The reason we have not been hit by a Terrorist attack like every other nation on the list, is because of the skill and vigilance of the Canadian security services and a lot of luck. Terrorist actions are unjustifiable, and I cannot begin to understand people who believe that we should pull out of Afghanistan and let them sort each other out. This are the people who poison teachers who educate young girls, have thrown acid in their faces, and yet we are accused of being the aggressors.

What imaginary planet do you live in? I think you need to cut out the James Bond movies. Iran is not getting harsh enough punishment; they have said that should they receive nukes, they would at first opportunity destroy Israel. If you do not consider this as sufficient grounds for sanctions, I don’t know what you will consider.

How many were of American origin though? And also as per population estimates of 1861, the Canadian population was 3.17million(http://www.statcan.gc.ca/pub/98-187-x/4151287-eng.htm) thus even if 55,000 people from BNA served, it still is only around 1.5% even assuming all were originaly from BNA and none were enlisting in multiple location for the enlistment bonus. At the end of the day though, when a Canadian serves in a foreign military we cannot consider this as involvement of Canada as a nation. After all somewhere in the neighbourhood of 100 Canadian Forces officers served in Iraq during the 8 years the US military was there, but they all served on exchange to the US military commanding American Units, and Representing the United States. If we assume that since Canadian citizens were involved then Canada was involved I would wager that the argument could be made about alot of other conflicts we officialy took no part in.

It was not an accident. Afghan Troops fired upon from Pakistani side called for NATO air support, NATO protected their ally

War of 1812? I mean British North America was involved, 14,000 Colonial regulars and militia out of a population of roughly 150,000-200,000 people. That’s anywhere between 7% and 9% of the total population, and that’s just a rough estimate. Has anyone actually finished the articles relating to this? The Afghani Military requested air support because they received fire from The Pakistani side of the border. So either the Pakistani Outposts fired on the Afghani Forces or they allowed insurgents to fire from the cover of their outposts.