# The War is Over !!!!!..Kinda (For Canada)

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**Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\
**Created:** [July 5, 2011, 3:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-war-is-over-kinda-for-canada/587902 "2011-07-05T15:23:46Z")\
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**Author:** ![The\_Flying\_Dutchman](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/9fc348/32.png) [@The\_Flying\_Dutchman](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/The_Flying_Dutchman)\
**Post date:** [July 5, 2011, 3:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-war-is-over-kinda-for-canada/587902/1 "2011-07-05T15:23:46Z")

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[We did our duty to a fellow member of Nato that was attacked.](http://ottawa.ctv.ca/servlet/an/local/CTVNews/20110705/canada-transfers-kandahar-battle-group-command-to-us-110705/20110705/?hub=OttawaHome) We left our allocated command with the knowledge of a job well done.

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> “We actually expected this fight to be more kinetic than it had been in the last 30 days,” he said. “This area has not seen the spike (in violence) that usually occurs here during the spring following the poppy harvest.”
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> The Canadian Press reported that much of that peace and quiet can be attributed to the Canadian Van Doos, who sought out and seized major caches of insurgent weapons over the past six months.

We\*\* pulled our weight\*\* given the fatalities we bore resemble those of our victimized ally on the basis of our relative populations.

Job well done to our armed forces !!

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**Author:** ![Czarcasm](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/czarcasm/32/4050_2.png) [@Czarcasm](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Czarcasm)\
**Post date:** [July 5, 2011, 3:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-war-is-over-kinda-for-canada/587902/2 "2011-07-05T15:41:00Z")

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Moving thread from IMHO to MPSIMS.

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**Author:** ![mnemosyne](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/c4cdca/32.png) [@mnemosyne](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/mnemosyne)\
**Post date:** [July 5, 2011, 4:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-war-is-over-kinda-for-canada/587902/3 "2011-07-05T16:06:41Z")

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Welcome home. Regardless of opinions on the war itself, the men and women fighting it deserve respect.

Also cool to see credit given to the Van Doos by the Americans. They worked hard for it, and it’s nice to see them recognized.

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**Author:** ![Cat\_Whisperer](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/cat_whisperer/32/4839_2.png) [@Cat\_Whisperer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cat_Whisperer)\
**Post date:** [July 5, 2011, 4:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-war-is-over-kinda-for-canada/587902/4 "2011-07-05T16:25:31Z")

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Yay!