NATO spokesman Major Quentin Innes said between six to seven soldiers were wounded in the Tuesday night strike in the Panjwai district of the southern province of Kandahar, and were evacuated from the base for treatment.
All but one of the soldiers were later discharged, he said. Canada has about 2,200 troops in Afghanistan and nine of them have been killed since early last month.
We are fighting in defense of the West to defeat an ideology that would attack the World Trade Center and the CN Tower. The dead Canada is suffering on the other side of the planet is worth the price. It's no Dieppe-scale sacrifice, but then this isn't 1942, either, when sacrifice was seen as a natural duty.
Thanks Canada.
