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2005-04-24 Home Front: WoT

Linda McQuaig says moving closer to U.S. promotes war, not peacemaking - Canada

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Posted by Brett 2005-04-24 3:17:17 PM|| || Front Page|| [11142 views since 2007-05-07] Top

#1 Cheez, Brett, you're not supposed to leave welts and bruises :-)

Very nice fisking.

Posted by Steve White 2005-04-24 4:05:42 PM|| 2005-04-24 4:05:42 PM|| Front Page Top

#2 I have nothing to add to that prolonged battering, but I am curious about this bit: ...Canadaâs special NATO role was ASW.... I hadn't heard that before.

I knew the Great Lakes were pretty much sub-free, but I figured that was due to the sea lamprey traps in the St. Lawrence.

Posted by SteveS 2005-04-24 4:20:48 PM|| 2005-04-24 4:20:48 PM|| Front Page Top

#3 Ouch. Not only is she and the liberal party going down in flames, Brett kicks them in the teeth on the way down. Nice frisking of a corrupt and soon (hopefully) to be out of power party.

Posted by mmurray821 2005-04-24 4:24:01 PM|| 2005-04-24 4:24:01 PM|| Front Page Top

#4 This may be the zenith of support for Paul Martin.

What I find shocking is that she did not have a single word to say about the U. N., the true guarantor of Canadian security.

Posted by Mrs. Davis 2005-04-24 4:30:27 PM|| 2005-04-24 4:30:27 PM|| Front Page Top

#5 Who is Linda McQuaig, and why do I care about this windbag?

Al

Posted by Frozen Al 2005-04-24 4:50:30 PM|| 2005-04-24 4:50:30 PM|| Front Page Top

#6 member of Canadian parliament IIRC

Posted by too true 2005-04-24 4:57:56 PM|| 2005-04-24 4:57:56 PM|| Front Page Top

#7 Thank you, Steve White.

SteveS, that is correct. The Canadians were the NATO ASW lead. This allowed the USN and Royal Navy to focus on other areas. Canada had been heavily involved in WWII ASW, and were involved from 1939, not 1942 like the US.

Al, I don't care about her either, but I just had to fisk this commentary in the Toronto ~~Red~~ Star. Brett

Posted by Brett 2005-04-24 5:01:59 PM|| 2005-04-24 5:01:59 PM|| Front Page Top

#8 Oh, wotta McQuaigmire!

Posted by twobyfour 2005-04-24 6:01:07 PM|| 2005-04-24 6:01:07 PM|| Front Page Top

#9 Good stuff Brett! Small point the US was involved in ASW in the Atlantic a tad prior to 1942.

Posted by Shipman 2005-04-24 6:13:18 PM|| 2005-04-24 6:13:18 PM|| Front Page Top

#10 Excellent, Brett! Kudos!

I'm a little curious about one thing I believe she's attributing to PM Martin (?):

"Today our ships integrate seamlessly with U.S. Navy formations..."

Um, hasn't the Canadian Navy substantively been reduced to a shadow of its former self? Run aground, so to speak, and unable to adequately offer even self-defense, much less serve to appreciably augment the US Navy in defending North America?

Unless the stories posted here on RB about these impressions were untrue, then something's amiss with this quote. My first thought when I read it was, "Huh? I thought the Missing Man formation was only used ceremonially to honor a lost comrade - and involved aircraft!"

Sheesh.

Posted by .com 2005-04-24 6:29:57 PM|| 2005-04-24 6:29:57 PM|| Front Page Top

#11 Her panties are bunched because the current budget on the table increases money to the Canadian defense forces who have been cut to nothing by the socialists and their anti military progrom.

She is also mad that this brings Canada close to the US defense establishment again. She misses the obvious. Canada's ground pounders can't currently get anywhere quickly without US support. This was brought home after the Tsunami. Canada's military was ready to render aid but had no way to get there. "All surplus US air support was already in use." Had the government of Canada been on better military terms with the US this might not have been a problem. Message sent, message recieved.

This dumb commie bitch didn't get CCed and is too stuipid to understand it anyway.

Posted by Sock Puppet 0â Doom 2005-04-24 6:42:43 PM|| 2005-04-24 6:42:43 PM|| Front Page Top

#12 Brett, You may be interested in the Reuben James on whom you apparently had no friends.

Posted by Mrs. Davis 2005-04-24 6:49:01 PM|| 2005-04-24 6:49:01 PM|| Front Page Top

#13 .com, you can review the whole mighty fleet of canuck navy. linky

It approximates Croatian Navy in strenght. ;-)

Don't go to the link that says Navy Life. It notes 'world class vessels', telling ya right of the bat. Despite the sad state of affairs, though, seems that the canuck navy did not lose their sense of humor.

Posted by Sobiesky 2005-04-24 7:33:26 PM|| 2005-04-24 7:33:26 PM|| Front Page Top

#14 I personally like being called a 'war machine', tis' kind of sexy sounding. And as Nigel Tufnel used ta say "what's wrong with being sexy?"

Posted by Chase Unineger3873 aka Jarhead 2005-04-24 7:34:16 PM|| 2005-04-24 7:34:16 PM|| Front Page Top

#15 Jarhead, you are the ~~sex~~ war machine.

Posted by Godfather of Soul 2005-04-24 7:43:37 PM|| 2005-04-24 7:43:37 PM|| Front Page Top

#16 LOL! Mrs. Davis! Good one!

Posted by Quana 2005-04-24 8:42:12 PM|| 2005-04-24 8:42:12 PM|| Front Page Top

#17 Sobiesky:
I don't see a problem with the Canadians saying their ships are World Class. Third World Class, but still...

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