He said he had difficulty reconciling the notion of describing the weeks-long push as successful until it came to him last night that Cpls. Gomez and Warren "would want us, would want me, to talk about this operation for the sake of their comrades and to put into context what they were doing," and that he was confident "that's the context in which they would like their sacrifice to be remembered. I have no doubt."These soldiers died performing a service to Canada & Afghanistan... despite how Bill Graham and the Fiberals will try to spin it to the contrary.
In more than two weeks in the field moving over 400 kilometres of the most volatile parts of this complicated and tribal country, the Canadians were in more than 35 major firefights that inflicted at least 100 Taliban casualties, destroyed nine ammunition caches, seized opium paste and heroin worth as much as $15-million, dismantled two significant bomb-making factories, discovered and blew up six Improvised Explosive Devices, or IEDs, along the route and established an Afghan government presence in six districts in the remote heartland of Taliban strength.This is what soldiers do.
Just hours after two Canadian soldiers were killed and eight others wounded military convoys were once again rolling in and out of the giant dust bowl that is the Kandahar Air Field base.
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