09 September 2006

Liberal military strategy

There's a couple of interesting nuggets in an article about the tanks that are reportedly being deployed to Afghanistan.
In the late 1990s, the Canadian Forces spent $145 million to upgrade its 114 Leopards with new computers and heat-sensing equipment to improve their fighting capability.

The Leopards were in the process of being mothballed or sold off but with the Afghan war heating up army commanders put a halt to that process in May.
So, much like the purchase of 4 used British submarines that have already caused the death of one Canadian Naval officer, (and that will not be ready for service for years, if ever) these tanks were apparently a big dollar bribe to the armed forces... but god forbid they actually ever be used for combat (remember, we've been in Afghanistan for over 4 years).

The waste and corruption of the Liberal decade plus, will be dogging us long into the future. Funny, you don't ever hear the Libs apologising for the way they've let our military down.

Oh, that's right, we don't need any of this stuff... we're peacekeepers.

SIDENOTE: Libs pissed away money like, well... a drunken sailor.
Canada announced the purchase of four mothballed subs from Britain in 1998. So far, buying and maintaining them has cost about $1.2 billion. But the navy has had difficulty getting more than one of the Victoria-class subs to sea at any given time.

HMCS Chicoutimi has been sitting in dry dock at Halifax Shipyard since last spring because of a fire on board on Oct. 5, 2004, that killed Lieut. Chris Saunders of Halifax.

The work to make Chicoutimi seaworthy again — pegged at $100 million — won’t start until 2010. According to the navy, the sub will return to active duty in 2012, eight years after it last went to sea.
If a business burned up money like this, without any checks & balances, it would be bankrupt in jig time. The Libs just reached out and picked our pockets time and time again.

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