This is Where it Get's Nasty: Kandahar

Mr. Layton, I supported you in the last election despite your call to withdraw from Afghanistan. To back out now would be to make the same mistake Belgium made in Rwanda. Mr. Layton Canada's soldiers are involved in a mission vital to Afghanistan, Canada and the World, they deserve your support.

Canadian forces in Afghanistan began their biggest mission yet, involving several hundred soldiers backed by armoured vehicles, artillery and helicopters.

They are pushing out from Kandahar in southern Afghanistan into areas where the Taliban has returned after being defeated by U.S.-led coalition forces in 2001, the CBC's Kas Roussy said from the Kandahar base

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