but it would appear that there might be some very solid information that would have led the government to that decision,
When I used to have time for the NDP's foreign policy stance this statement would have been laughed at by its caucus. Remember them, they didn't buy the potentially "solid information" that there were WMD's and thus Iraq needed to be invaded. It is clear that Mulcair if faced with the same circumstances would defer to the lies of NATO's spin doctors. They have put themselves into a box that disallows critical thinking and instead exchanges that trait for blind faith in the reports they are getting from a government that is deeply integrated into the NATO military security apparatus.