Calling what is happening in Iraq a "war" is using the wrong word because "war" means two or more armies opposing each other. In Iraq (and Afghanistan) there is only ONE army - OURS - but there is no enemy army. There are no Iraqi soldiers dressed in Iraqi uniforms, or Afghani soldiers in Afghani uniforms.

Our soldiers, when they get to Iraq or Afghanistan, have nothing to do, other than work on building or rebuilding their prison-like base and then hanging around hoping Timmy Hortons will open a coffee franchise*, further depleting Afghans' water. See CANADA SELLING AFGHANS' WATER

The only "action" our soldiers see are explosions by some anonymous person who is blown up with the bomb ("suicide bombers" they're called) or by invisible "taliban or osaddam bins" who disappear into holes in sand dunes. This is met with retalitary force by Big Brother's army (the UN government our soldiers fight for) wherein we drop bombs from overhead hoping to "smoke 'em out". It doesn't matter if whole villages and villagers get blown to smithereens in the process because that then gives our soldiers something to finally do, ie walk around with their guns hanging out giving candy to the children. ~ Jackie Jura

Afghan overtaking Iraq in terror war (takes more money & resources). AFP, Jun 19, 2008

Taxpayers support donuts to troops. CFRA, Oct 31, 2006
Canadian taxpayers could be spending two million to five million dollars a year to give soldiers their morning cup of Tim's in Kandahar. A report says it will cost Canadian taxpayers close to four million dollars to set up a Tim Hortons franchise at the Canadian base in southern Afghanistan for a year. The operational costs include the initial set up, workers' salaries and maintenance. Documents say it could cost taxpayers another two million to five million dollars a year to keep it open.

Afghanistan gripped by worst fighting since 2001. Independent, May 21, 2006
Helmand, the main opium poppy-growing region, where drug profits are believed to fund the insurgency, has become the main focus of violence, but the past week has also seen attacks in Zabul province and the western city of Herat.

Iraqis cry – "When will this stop?", Khaleej Times, May 20, 2006
BAGHDAD - Bombs killed 24 people in Iraq on Saturday, including 19 in a Shia district of Baghdad, hours before Iraq’s parliament was to inaugurate a national unity government aimed at halting a slide toward civil war. Police said 58 were wounded in the blast targeting Shia labourers in eastern Sadr City slum. It was typical of bombings by Sunni Islamists like Abu Musab Al Zarqawi’s Al Qaeda in Iraq. Witnesses and police said the bomb appeared to have been planted in a spot where the attackers knew large crowds of men would gather shortly after dawn, hoping to be hired for a day’s casual labour. Such spots have been targeted in the past. "When will this stop? Where is the government?" one teenager sobbed as he stood amid pools of blood. A man beat his face with his hands as he hugged his dead brother lying on the floor. Survivors rushed the wounded to hospital. A dozen bodies, their faces covered with cardboard, lay on the hospital garden. In the town of Qaim, near the Syrian border, a suicide bomber detonated his explosive-packed vest inside a police station killing five policemen and wounding 10, police said...Hundreds of people are being killed every month in Baghdad alone and tens of thousands have fled their homes...

*Help Wanted: Tim Hortons In Afghanistan. NBC News, May 7, 2006
A Tim Hortons makeshift outlet is set to open in Kandahar, Afghanistan. Employees will not only have to serve up fresh donuts and coffee, but they will also have to learn how to defuse a hostage situation and detect a land mine. The CBC reports that about 70 people who range in ages 20 and 55 are undergoing training at Canadian Forces Base Kingston. The hopefuls are learning about third-world medicine and how to respond to a nuclear or biological attack. If chosen, 41 of them will be offered a six month contract in Afghanistan. The coffee and donut chain plans to open the outlet at the end of the month. A trailer with takeout windows is expected to house the chain, and deliveries to Kandahar will be made by military transport. In early March, Tim Hortons announced it would serve the soldiers after weeks of lobbying by the military.

WAR WOULD BE CATASTROPHIC FOR IRAQI CHILDREN - REPORT, IPS, Jan 30, 2003

SUICIDE BOMBERS and ISRAELI WAR TACTICS IN IRAQ and ZIONISM IN AMERICA

Marine says we've lost way too many people for nothing and it's a hamburger mill in Iraq now

MOAB IS WEAPON OF MASS DESTRUCTION

EVE OF IRAQ DESTRUCTION and THIS ISN'T WAR IT'S MURDER and WHERE'S ENEMY'S ARMY? and IRAQ A MAGICIAN'S TRICK and WHERE IS OSADDAM BIN? and BAGHDAD PLUNDERED and IRAQ HELL BAGHDAD BRACELET

WARMONGER EXPLAINS WAR TO PEACENIK and THE ROAD TO WAR

IN AFGHAN FIELDS and OPIUM WARS WITHIN and AFGHANISTAN REMEMBERED

12.Ministry of Peace and 11.Ministry of Plenty and 28.Reality Control and ORDER OUT OF CHAOS