Number of Canadian soldiers on UN peacekeeping missions hits new low

Curious Cdn

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Conservatives want a debate on this deployment.

Too much like a war for them.

Strangely enough, in recent history, it's the Liberals that sent our troops off to war and they left it to the Conservatives to arrange an honourable withdrawl.

Here we go again, maybe.
 

darkbeaver

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Let 'er rip tater chip.
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The enduring legasy of Naziismn on eastern Russia.

and in

The Ukraine is an American project, they believe some sort of earthern barrier can be constructed out of Ukrainians and stop the Russian Hordes who eat babies, it,s not going to happen. It will be a bad year or so for babies.
 

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Strangely enough, in recent history, it's the Liberals that sent our troops off to war and they left it to the Conservatives to arrange an honourable withdrawl.

Here we go again, maybe.
Trying to think of an instance where that is true....
 

darkbeaver

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Trying to think must be an horrible episode for you

do you have an convulsions?

Chattering teeth profuse sweating and vomiting nonsence

Keeping pieces of this continent or that in a vain effort to stop the forward momentum of reality, tick tick tick, bathing in the sea of time, may God preserve your soul for one more cycle, a few more enabled brain cells, a few chuckles and then the enevitable end again, recycling ain,t so bad, keep pushing those peddals, you,ll get there some day

There,s a bit lost in the translation there

I own and operate a one -hundred and seventy dollar evaperator, it is an enginering marvel, and the native NS grass is devastatingly nice, bed time is just a puff away and you feel like a kid in the morning, an empty head for breakdfast, there,s nothing better,
 

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Afghanistan.
hmmmmm...that was actually a UN mission - and the Conservatives spent their time trying to figure out how to prolong it.

Had they joined the Coalition of the Willing in Iraq that would have been a war,
 

Curious Cdn

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hmmmmm...that was actually a UN mission - and the Conservatives spent their time trying to figure out how to prolong it.

Had they joined the Coalition of the Willing in Iraq that would have been a war,

Canada went to Kabul Afghanistan in response to NATO Article 5 and under a UN mandate during the Chretien government (starting 2001). Paul Martin's government shifted the mission from Kabul to the "very hot" Khandahar region (2006).
 

darkbeaver

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Afghanistan.

I,ve had some once removed blood serve in Afganistan, I know this cousin, he will break you, young punk that he is, honestly he snuffed Afgans to Save Afganistan, he,s a nice kid though and he,s a twin, twins run in my family for many genertions, every second generation, in 2525 we will hopefully

A very stern young man X 2, he was very cuddly when he was young, both of them

Peace keeping missions? A bad investment, you want to be able to impose peace, this is more conducive to trade in goods rather than casdaVERS
 

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Canada went to Kabul Afghanistan in response to NATO Article 5 and under a UN mandate during the Chretien government (starting 2001). Paul Martin's government shifted the mission from Kabul to the "very hot" Khandahar region (2006).
ya I don't really classify that as a war and I don't think the conservatives got us out of it as much as it petered out by itself.
 

darkbeaver

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Yes I have spent time in a n institution, sooo?

What,s your point?

I got helped and you got humped

Ukraine, the last bastion of Nazi,s, Hitlers little Bastards. They have no beer worthy of mention. Fukkin half wit savages

Why the hell are we investing in peace ? There,s no money in that


If you resolve can,t bomb burn and mutilate you show a lack of resolve. How sick is that? use the ten scale please
 

Curious Cdn

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Isn't it also funny the CBC comes out with the 'shame on us' article on the 15th,

and then on the 16th announces we are going to Mali.

But nahhh, there is no agenda going on.

Six months from now it'll be "shame on us from going to Mali" after something hideous happens, like a Chinook full of RCAF personnel getting shot down by Boko Haram.
 

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Then from the "Find any wmds yet" file, today's headline:
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Vienna unbeatable as world's most liveable city, Baghdad still worst.

Sometimes peacekeeping after the fact just doesn't cut it.
 

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Six months from now it'll be "shame on us from going to Mali" after something hideous happens, like a Chinook full of RCAF personnel getting shot down by Boko Haram.
i'll jump the gun and say it now.

what a stupid place to send peace keepers.

btw how the hell are they going to get 260 plus aircrew for this??
 

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i'll jump the gun and say it now.

what a stupid place to send peace keepers.

btw how the hell are they going to get 260 plus aircrew for this??

From what I can gather, Mali is a questionable choice to be sending a peace keeping crew. Having said that, there are others who know and are being paid to know a hell of a lot more about it than I. I don't think this is a decision Sonny Boy is allowed to make all on his own. You might want to think of leaving the decision to others, too, Hoid. They likely already have the 260 air crew. :)
 

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I think that one of the unstated aspects to this mission is that Canada is of a very small group of candidate countries that can supply French speaking military personnel, which would be very useful in Francophone Mali.