Only if you're an idiot.The headline should have read "If you don't support Conservative foreign affairs and defense policy then you don't support the troops" Which by extension could read "If you don't support the conservatives you don't support the troops".
Mr. MacKay rose and explained how the NDP’s lack of support for the government’s previous budgets has amounted to a lack of support for the troops.
No, convoluted bullsh!t is what you post.I'm sure though that you have some convoluted bullshyte story how this doesn't prove my statements.
Okay, upon retrospect the title is somewhat misleading.As to the Macleans article. There is nothing in the quotes mentioned by Mcleans, that even remotely support their headline.
The headline should have read "If you don't support Conservative foreign affairs and defense policy then you don't support the troops" Which by extension could read "If you don't support the conservatives you don't support the troops".
Only if you're an idiot.
Unless you can back that stupidity up with some quotes from Macleans quotes from question period to support that idiotic claim.
I'm sure though that you have some convoluted bullshyte story how this doesn't prove my statements.Mr. MacKay rose and explained how the NDP’s lack of support for the government’s previous budgets has amounted to a lack of support for the troops.
No, convoluted bullsh!t is what you post.
The NDP have voted against increases in Military funding or allocation/procurement. Consistently. Since they did the same thing under the Liberals. It isn't about the Conservatives, it's part of their ideology.
As to the Macleans article. There is nothing in the quotes mentioned by Mcleans, that even remotely support their headline.
The fact that you think it's 'somewhat', says you have no objectivity.Okay, upon retrospect the title is somewhat misleading.
Because it's true. Although I think it tacky to use it as an excuse.... he sticks to the "you don't support the troops as much as I do" insinuation.
Not on your end Abtfet.Hellooooooooooooooooo... anyone home???????????
What's to fold? Your silly claims? Make believe commentary that isn't in the Macleans article?and stumpy folds again.
Really?
That's his defense?
Voters will see through this sort of deflection logic and that will play into the hands of the NDP.
In general I don't like the conservatives, or their policies. But in this case, I have to side with the Harper conservatives. This is a bogus non-issue.
This is a case where if you don't use it, you'll loose it.
The PM, senior cabinet ministers and Canada's top generals must have a mobility capability in the event of an emergency or disaster. This fleet must maintain an operational readiness at all times. The only way to maintain this operational capability is to keep using it. Every time McKay picks up the phone and says I want to go from a to b without a warning, is a test of the operational capability and opportunity to provide crew training.
If these planes sit mothballed in a hangar, then the operational capability to react quickly to a disaster or an emergency will be lost. (no trained crew, no ability to quickly pick people up and move them around). Every time this capability is used, it a test of disaster preparedness.
Now I'm not saying there should be no limits. On the contrary, the testing/training must have a budget. Once that budget is gone, then that's it for the year. How the senior people in Canada's government use this capability is their business. Its a perk that comes with the job.
That would be great, if you actually read what I said, and replied in kind.Tacky? It's intellectually dishonest to completely evade a question, and instead use it as a mean to claim another member doesn't support the troops.
I'd agree, if they merely voted against procurement of large scale purchases. Since they consistently vote against military spending that covers basic needs, I don't.And in the larger picture, it's intellectually dishonest to equate wanting a smaller military with not supporting the troops. It's on the same level of intellectually dishonesty as calling them unpatriotic, or un-Canadian or something.
May I see some evidence for this?I'd agree, if they merely voted against procurement of large scale purchases. Since they consistently vote against military spending that covers basic needs, I don't.
Maybe you should make yourself clearer, then. You said it was true that the NDP supports the troops less than MacKay, correct?That would be great, if you actually read what I said, and replied in kind.
Are you kidding?May I see some evidence for this?
I went back and reread what I typed. The issue is yours.Maybe you should make yourself clearer, then.
Yep.You said it was true that the NDP supports the troops less than MacKay, correct?
Nope.Then you went on to say it's tacky to use that as an excuse to... avoid a question, correct?
What's to fold? Your silly claims? Make believe commentary that isn't in the Macleans article?
Sorry dude, I don't live in your make believe version of reality.
No. I call you Abtfet/EAO/OB, when you start posting like them. Suck it up buttercup.When you resort to calling me "abfet/aoe/etc.... obviously you have folded your hand.
And I addressed it Abtfet.As for my quote, it was directly out of the Mcleans article supporting what I said. Maybe have someone read the article to you if you are having comprehension problems.
No, because I can recall two pretty big military expenditure they voted for, initially: the Libyan invasion and the Afghanistan war. Of course, later on they changed their mind and wanted them to end. But their record is hardly consistently against 'basic needs' of the military, unless you care to provide evidence.Are you kidding?
Well, that's what it was used for. It was used to evade a question. What were you trying to say?Nope.
Do you think the NDP just sprang up last election?No, because I can recall two pretty big military expenditure they voted for, initially: the Libyan invasion and the Afghanistan war. Of course, later on they changed their mind and wanted them to end. But their record is hardly consistently against 'basic needs' of the military, unless you care to provide evidence.
No it wasn't, it was used to attack the opposition and emphasize an excuse given in defence of some of Mackay's flights. The xcuse was already given. The opposition attacked the excuse. The Minister attacked the opposition.Well, that's what it was used for. It was used to evade a question.
No. I call you Abtfet/EAO/OB, when you start posting like them. Suck it up buttercup.
And I addressed it Abtfet.