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2004-02-25 
’Bankrupt’ Canadian Forces may shut 5 bases
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Posted by Steve White 2004-02-25 2:15:33 AM|| || Front Page|| [11127 views since 2007-05-07]  Top

#1 This is what would have happened if Kerry had gotten his way all those years in the Senate. And he didn't always lose. This is what WILL happen if Kerry is elected.

He is a liberal. Given a choice, liberals will always cut the military to fund their nanny state programs. That's exactly what happened in Canada and what will happen to us...if Kerry and the Dems take power again.
Posted by RMcLeod  2004-2-25 4:30:08 AM||   2004-2-25 4:30:08 AM|| Front Page Top

#2 Canada has a military?

Why? Seems like a white elephant for a country like Canada. After all, they have alliances with foreign countries that will defend them in the unlikely event that they're ever invaded.
Posted by gromky 2004-2-25 5:43:12 AM||   2004-2-25 5:43:12 AM|| Front Page Top

#3 We might want to keep an even closer eye northward--our borders. Don't want to give the jihadis easy access.

A perfect example of what happens when liberals have their way--destroy their country from within and without.
Posted by joe 2004-2-25 6:44:13 AM||   2004-2-25 6:44:13 AM|| Front Page Top

#4 I remember a day when Canada punched above its weight.
They kept a mechanized brigade/mini division in Germany for years... now they have 9(?) battalions of infantry, much of it deployed.
Posted by Shipman 2004-2-25 7:50:39 AM||   2004-2-25 7:50:39 AM|| Front Page Top

#5 I remember getting in a discussion with a Canadian journalist in a bar in Washington a couple of years ago and asked him whether Canada was too undercapitalized to be a country anymore; he didn't disagree with me
Posted by Hiryu 2004-2-25 8:03:12 AM||   2004-2-25 8:03:12 AM|| Front Page Top

#6 God, this is pathetic! Oh well. Uncle Sugar's still around to cover their asses if something really bad happens. Think they're aware of that?
Posted by tu3031 2004-2-25 8:42:57 AM||   2004-2-25 8:42:57 AM|| Front Page Top

#7 Here's an idea - why don't they stop admitting all of those immigrants and asylum seekers who promptly go on their public dole and use the resulting taxpayers money for the taxpayers??

This worries me - Canada's decline is a far greater threat to us than France's. They better take a good look in the mirror and see if they want to be the host for a staging ground of Jihad against the US.
Posted by B 2004-2-25 9:15:26 AM||   2004-2-25 9:15:26 AM|| Front Page Top

#8 So when does the US take over the parts that want to join us? I have often read that the Western regions feel and think more like the US than the East.
Posted by Jim K  2004-2-25 9:25:42 AM||   2004-2-25 9:25:42 AM|| Front Page Top

#9 Watch Canada closely, this is France's future if they can't get their GNP to grow and support their own nanny state programs. With a rising islamic radical population in their own boarders, France will become the europian afganistan in ten years if they can't pull their collective heads out of their collective asses.
Posted by mmurray821 2004-2-25 9:43:17 AM||   2004-2-25 9:43:17 AM|| Front Page Top

#10 30 years of psycho-liberal government takes a toll. Thanks, Quebec. We knew you could screw up a wet dream, but nobody expected results this soon!
Posted by mojo  2004-2-25 11:00:40 AM||   2004-2-25 11:00:40 AM|| Front Page Top

#11  Not trying to fuel any fires,but the Canadian Government is in process of trying a national gun registry that's going to cost between 1-2 BILLION dollars(was originally estimated to cost@3 MILLION).Think that money could have been used elsewhere?
Posted by Stephen 2004-2-25 2:49:01 PM||   2004-2-25 2:49:01 PM|| Front Page Top

#12 Gee...if China wanted a nice, big, defenseless, resource-rich foothold in N. America, I bet I can think of one for them.
Posted by mjh  2004-2-25 4:35:28 PM||   2004-2-25 4:35:28 PM|| Front Page Top

#13 Alaska?
Posted by Napoleon VII 2004-2-25 5:16:14 PM||   2004-2-25 5:16:14 PM|| Front Page Top

#14 I have an idea for Canada....East Alaska
Posted by Yosemite Sam 2004-2-25 6:00:49 PM||   2004-2-25 6:00:49 PM|| Front Page Top

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