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Canada wont join Original Source Link: (May no longer be active)    http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story2&u=/nm/20030218/wl_canada_nm/canada_iraq_chretien_col http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story2&u=/nm/20030218/wl_canada_nm/canada_iraq_chretien_col Yahoo! News Tue, Feb 18, 2003 Canada Says Will Not Join Solo U.S. Attack on Iraq 50 minutes ago In OTTAWA story, "Canada says will not join solo U.S. attack on Iraq", please read in the final paragraph "... last week Ottawa announced it would be sending up to 2,000 troops for a year to take part in a U.N. peacekeeping mission based in Kabul." Corrects to Kabul from Baghdad. A corrected repetition follows. OTTAWA (Reuters) - Canada toughened its line on the Iraq crisis on Tuesday, saying it had no intention of contributing to a possible U.S.-led attack that had not been blessed by the United Nations (news - web sites) Security Council. U.S. President George W. Bush (news - web sites) says if the U.N. backs away from the idea of authorizing force to disarm Baghdad, he is prepared to wage war with what he calls a "coalition of the willing". Canadian Prime Minister Jean Chretien has until now refused to rule out contributing forces to a possible unilateral U.S. attack, but on Tuesday he told Parliament this was not an option. "We have not been asked and we do not intend to participate in a group of the willing," he said in reply to a question asking whether Canada would join "a coalition of willing countries". Chretien last week gave a speech in Chicago in which he strongly urged Bush to follow Canada's lead and tackle the Iraq crisis within the United Nations. "If they (the Americans) want to go there all alone, they can go there all alone but we say they must go with the authorization of the United Nations. If they don't, the international system of peace and security will probably be more destabilized than it need be," he said on Tuesday. Whether Canada's stretched armed forces could contribute anything to an attack on Iraq is in any case questionable, since last week Ottawa announced it would be sending up to 2,000 troops for a year to take part in a U.N. peacekeeping mission based in Kabul.

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