"Dan J.S." wrote in message
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"thunder" wrote in message
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On Mon, 22 Aug 2005 11:41:09 -0400, Jim Carter wrote:


"Dan J.S." wrote in message
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I think over 60 countries established embassies in Iraq too... it's
either 58 or 60 -- but around that number...

Canada is not one of them. Canada's mission to Iraq is located in
Jordan. Too damn risky to have it in Iraq.


Geez, don't take Dan to literally. All his "facts" come from an email
that made the rounds a year or so ago.

http://www.snopes.com/politics/war/combatend.asp



Most of them seem legit. Snopes has this listed as undetermined, but the
few links they provide agree that most if not all of these are in fact
true.


.....except that as late as this past spring, our own commanders, on the
ground in Iraq, have stated that Iraqi troops and police were woefully
unprepared. This directly contradicts what that email said 2 years ago about
thousands of Iraqi military protecting their own citizens.