Anyway, after hearing all of their pitches and asking them "this war is land's away, between two countries, and they have never attacked/set foot on our soil, how exactly am I being a patriot and protecting my country if I join your branch of service?
I LOVE this bit in particular. Exactly! I could not morally justify to myself ultimately being a soldier of George W. Bush Jr. due to his egregious lies about Saddam Hussein and Iraq - specifically Bush's lie about Saddam having weapons of mass destruction. It was just a hideous lie, in addition to your points about Iraq never setting foot on North American soil.
The rest is just a rant about why George W. Bush Jr. and his lies about Iraq led me to quit the Canadian army. Ignore this is you bore easily...just a rant:
Absolute ridiculous, obvious lies. And Bush Jr. pushed for a war in Iran starting in 2006...it blows my mind that he thought he had ANY CHANCE of starting that war while literally still being in a war that exposed him as the greatest liar in American presidential history [I would think].
And even if he wasn't a disgusting treasonous liar, the Iraq War was going horribly by 2006! And Bush wanted to start a war with a country with 3x the population and economic might. It blew my mind that he could be THAT stupid to even suggest a war with Iran in light of all this.
The USA is Canada's greatest ally, and I'm grateful for that - it's nice to have the world's greatest power as basically your big brother.

So thank you just for being American - I appreciate Americans who make the USA the nation it is.
But I swore an oath of allegiance that specifically forbade me from committing treason, and that is why I could not morally go on as - ultimately - a soldier of a treasonous president like George W. Bush Jr. My logic for that was that Canada was a military ally of the USA, so I was part of a military alliance ultimately led by George W. Bush Jr., who I considered a treasonous war criminal [although innocent until proven guilty in an international military court].
I just couldn't morally be part of the military during that time.
In one interview, George W. Bush Jr. was being pressed about his WMDs in Iraq lie, and fired back with "Saddam was a menace!"
That wasn't the argument you used as a pretext for that war, George.

I said on Facebook that I hope to live to see the day that he is executed for war crimes, and I was immediately given a 30-day ban on Facebook by Facebook's AI. Poor choice of words - I should have said I wished to live the day to see Bush TRIED for war crimes.
[but yes - executed if found guilty]
Obviously Bush is pretty scared of this possibility, for Facebook's AI to be programmed to immediately take such posts down. Ultimately, Bush knows someone could full well bring him up on war crime charges...although that's never happen to a former American president yet, so it's unlikely to happen to him.