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Iraq Invasion - America's Shame... 10 years on


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Ummm...the Government of Canada website says we're Iraq's 8th largest investor...they could be fibbing, I suppose.

as I said, as I'm aware, as I said, that's post-2010... didn't say anything about current status. The nattering was about the early so-called "Martin begging" days! Try to keep up.

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PM Martin pleads Canada's case for Iraq with President Bush, who tolerates his continued begging:

Canada raises Iraq contracts with Bush

By Los Angeles Times


OTTAWA — New Canadian Prime Minister Paul Martin said yesterday
he had tried to persuade President Bush to let Canadian firms bid for
lucrative Iraq reconstruction contracts but had not managed to get a
firm commitment.

Martin, who took over last week from Jean Chrétien, said he would
raise the question again with Bush when they hold a bilateral meeting
next month at a summit in Monterrey, Mexico.

Canada is unhappy the White House has limited bidding on the
contracts to companies from nations that contributed troops to the war
on Iraq. Chrétien, whose relations with Bush were never better than
cool, angered the U.S. leader by refusing to take part.

Martin spoke to Bush for a quarter of an hour yesterday, pointing out
that Canada had contributed $230 million to the rebuilding of Iraq and
had also stationed 2,000 troops in Afghanistan as part of a NATO-led
force.

http://community.seattletimes.nwsource.com/archive/?date=20031216&slug=contracts16

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have you provided your citation yet... the one showing Carter caused the 'Shah to fall... and not get back up again'?

He didn't cause the Shah to fall. The CIA was actually surprised at his quick abdication. It was more a case of not giving a rat's rear as to what happened to a valuable strategic ally on the Soviet Union's southern flank.

Carter was relived when the whole hostage crisis was over....paid the ransom money to the kidnappers...said 'Whew...right on!'...his words. Off to build homes for the poor....

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Which they then went on to sell all of as of last year.

http://www.energy-pedia.com/news/iraq/new-153194

By low, sell high, never set foot in the country. Seems like this is the game plan for the small time Canadian companies who are putting out bids no one else is sitting on land then unloading them as other big players expand into the ground they now have the contract to develop.

yup... the other company, Ironstone, ... a so-called junior that, as you found, didn't actually get the contract BC_2004 so hyped. Does he have... more?

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I like this headline.....


Bush Lets Canadian Appeasers Profit From Iraq War

NewsMax.com Wires

Tuesday, Jan. 13, 2004

MONTERREY, Mexico – President Bush, seeking to mend
relations with America's northern neighbor, said Tuesday that
Canada would be eligible for a second round of U.S.-financed
reconstruction contracts in Iraq.



In a breakfast meeting with new Canadian Prime Minister Paul
Martin, Bush said he had told Martin of the shift in policy. Martin
"understands the stakes" in rebuilding a free and peaceful Iraq,
Bush said. He offered no details of what the contracts would be
worth.


Martin is eager to patch up the cross-border relationship after
his predecessor, Jean Chretien, abstained from the Iraq war,
angering Bush.


Martin said he was pleased by the new U.S. stance toward Canada,
and the lucrative contracts that could come Canada's way. U.S.
policy in the first round was to shut out Canada and other
countries that opposed the war.


"It does show that working together, we can arrive at a
reasonable solution," Martin told reporters after the breakfast.


The two leaders also pledged cooperation on another issue that
has irritated U.S.-Canada relations, the discovery of mad cow
disease in America from a cow that apparently came from Canada.


"This is an issue that's going to require close coordination
between our two countries," Bush said. "The best way to make sure
we're able to satisfy consumers ... is for there to be
[coordination] on regulation, on information and on the science."


Bush said he was confident in the safety of the beef supply, and
was still himself eating beef.

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No, you forgot overflight and refueling stops at Canadian bases. Shameful !

oh right... shouldn't forget Gander, ever!

apparently, you have nothing to say, nothing whatsoever as to the casualties (dead and wounded) your country incurred... and inflicted on innocent civilians. Or the cost to your economy. Or the ongoing costs to your economy. Or the destabilization caused. Of course you don't! You throw out these curt nothingness statements about "regime change"... "Hussein, we got em". Sad, very sad.

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oh right... shouldn't forget Gander, ever!

Is it not on Canadian soil ?

apparently, you have nothing to say, nothing whatsoever as to the casualties (dead and wounded) your country incurred... and inflicted on innocent civilians. Or the cost to your economy. Or the ongoing costs to your economy. Or the destabilization caused. Of course you don't! You throw out these curt nothingness statements about "regime change"... "Hussein, we got em". Sad, very sad.

No more than any other wars past and present.....God Save the Queen !

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That would be Ironhorse Oil & Gas...out of Calgary.....not "Ironstone".

really? You can respond to spelling but not to the following: laugh.png

ya, ya... that's the only reference I found across the early licensing rounds. And yet, the "junior player", Ironhorse of Calgary, doesn't include anything about it on it's website, inclusive of archived press releases dating back to 2005.

Seems like they awarded the contract to a Canadian company then went back on it. I can't find where the status of it is now.

http://globeinvestor.com/servlet/ArticleNews/story/ROC/20041225/2004-12-25T193421Z_01_N25599859_RTRIDST_0_BUSINESS-ENERGY-IRAQ-HIMRIN-COL

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Let's not forget this fun nugget:

WESTON: Canada offered to aid Iraq invasion: WikiLeaks

The same day Canada publicly refused to join the 2003 U.S.-led
invasion of Iraq, a high-ranking Canadian official was secretly
promising the Americans clandestine military support for the fiercely
controversial operation.


The revelation that Canadian forces may have secretly participated in
the invasion of Iraq is contained in a classified U.S. diplomatic memo
obtained exclusively by CBC News from the whistleblower website
WikiLeaks.


On March 17, 2003, two days before U.S. warplanes launched their
attack on Baghdad, prime minister Jean Chrétien told the House of
Commons that Canadian forces would not be joining what the
administration of then U.S. president George W. Bush dubbed the
"coalition of the willing."


Chrétien's apparent refusal to back the Bush administration's
invasion, purportedly launched to seize weapons of mass destruction
possessed by Iraqi ruler Saddam Hussein (which were never found), was
hugely popular in Canada, widely hailed as nothing less than a defining
moment of national sovereignty.


But even as Chrétien told the Commons that Canada wouldn't
participate in Operation Iraqi Freedom, Canadian diplomats were secretly
telling their U.S. counterparts something entirely different.


The classified U.S. document obtained from WikiLeaks shows senior
Canadian officials met that same day with high-ranking American and
British diplomats at Foreign Affairs headquarters in Ottawa.

http://www.cbc.ca/news/politics/story/2011/05/15/weston-iraq-invasion-wikileaks.html

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