PM's mailbag full of Afghan complaints

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OTTAWA (CP) — Afghanistan has become a lightning rod for thousands of ordinary Canadians who write or call Stephen Harper, newly released documents show.

Records of telephone calls, letters and e-mails to the prime minister in the four months since he took office Feb. 6 suggest the military mission is turning into a political quagmire for the minority government.

In May, for example, Harper's office received 1,453 letters and e-mails about Canada's Afghan deployment, two-thirds calling on the government to pull out and get the troops home. Another 114 telephone callers said the same.

The mission in Kandahar by far eclipsed any other issue that month, according to an internal analysis obtained under the Access to Information Act.

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