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Might be a calcium deposit.

;D Yes the all-important "meetings meetings"! Well, the way they announced it just looks like they are buying 16 helicopters for three times what they're worth but I guess I just don't get the subtleties of helicopter shopping.

OK, the helicopter announcement went out today and the CBC reported it as being worth $4.7 billion - $2 billion for the aircraft and 2.7 billion for the maintenance contracts.So $2 billion for the aircraft. That works out to $125 million each, and yet I've seen the price of an individual CH-47F...

I'm with Duey. God Save The Queen.

I think it's going to take a whole generation to de-brainwash Canadians re this "peacekeeping" fantasy. No matter how many letters to the editor are written, or articles by Lew Mckenzie are published, these people like Ryan, Staples, etc keep coming out with the same tired tune.

Seen. Only dry though, right? Re Reg Force SQ, they used to include Driver Wheel and comms as well.

Don't forget that in the reserves after BMQ you do the Soldier Qualification (SQ) course, which is about the same length as the BMQ course so the total is around 45 training days. In the regs in the last few years they had a shorter SQ course and I may be mistaken, but have they not integrated...

Wow, dozens of 'em, eh? :'(

Well, actually CTV has a poll out today that says 55% support having our troops there and 41% opposed, so already that's a change, as people get more information about the mission.

That's a great idea and would take a bit of the strain off the training training aspect of recruitment.

That was very nicely put by Gen Fraser in the CTV story. You know, I'm beginning to think we might want to start using the word "peacekeeping" again, and educate people about the reality of that endeavour.

Kind of like Yugoslavia under Tito, or the USSR.

I would really like to add to Lost_Warrior's comments, with which I agree. I really don't understand why the US let their relationship with Saddam deteriorate to the level that it did. Here was a secular non-Islamist Sunni tyrant totally in opposition to the Shiite theocracy in Iran. Now you...

I don't like separatists. Separatists are goddam traitors.

Well no, I couldn't vote for the Conservative who won in my riding because it was revealed during the campaign that his campaign manager was an Alberta Separatist, so I didn't vote for my MP. "On that basis, Mr Emerson obtained the best "deal" he could get for his constituents..."  ???

Well a Conservative principle, or rather a Reform Party principle, used to be accountability to the voters, and the right to recall MPs (which as you know you can do provincially). Oh I'm sure he'll get a "deal" on softwood lumber, he'll have to take any deal, even the worst deal imaginable...

Oh I see. So those of us "outside of BC" have to just settle for the guy we voted for in our ridings. Maybe we should just not bother having elections, since there's no guarantee that the guy we stupid voters choose will be "widely respected in business circles".

Hey guys, I like playing blues. I have a Strat and a 65 Fender Deluxe Reverb reissue.

OK, I am really, really, really glad the Liberals got tossed out. Brad, tell me differently if you want, but this was all so supposed to be about ethics and accountability, remember? Surely what Emerson and Harper have done is worse than Stronach and Martin, no? Stronach can at least say that...

OK, I am NOT a Liberal, I did NOT vote Liberal, and like many Canadians I voted for A CHANGE, remember that slogan from just a few weeks ago? The same few weeks ago when Emerson was telling the voters of his constituency that a Harper government would ruin the country? Well, I don't care how...