Cheese Eating Support Monkeys

The French announcement of 1,000 troops was made on the eve of a two-day alliance summit and, as a result, the United States confirmed it would deploy additional resources to the south, including Kandahar province, where 2,500 Canadian troops are located. national post

Not quite in the right place but the French look like coming through.

PMSH (PBUH) had this to say:

“The fact of the matter is that we all under-committed, we all underestimated the task and we’ve been compensating ever since.” national post

Well yes Steve: these folks beat the living hell out of the Russians There was one survivor of the British capture of Kabul. Hello Steve, I want Canada to win. I want Nato to win. But it is long past the point where we’ve “under estimated a damn thing”. For Heavens sake you are briefed. Unless the Armed Forces are lying to you, which is unlikely, you’ve known for a while that the ‘Stan is not a cakewalk.

Canada has the ability to fight well and we have; the question is whether the creeps in the CPC will actually realize and recoginize the achievements of our troops.

Written by jay on April 3rd, 2008 with 3 comments.
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#1. April 3rd, 2008, at 3:44 PM.

Jay: do keep in mind that for every deployment of a BG ((the remainder are troops conducting other tasks, such as provincial reconstruction (PRT), operational mentoring (OMLT), headquarters staff in theatre etc)) there must be at least twice that number here in Canada; the BG in high readiness preparing to deploy, a BG in post-deployment. Some folks might correctly wonder why it is that Canada can’t simply generate the extra 1000 bodies seemly needed in Kandahar province, but keep in mind that the Army must also perform a wide variety of additional tasks (domestic operations, training, headquarters etc) and that these require troops to be available to the government and not deployed.

I am sure that you are aware of the above, but I think it helps to lay it out.

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#2. April 3rd, 2008, at 6:29 PM.

Good point on the CPC. Terry Glavin has an excellent piece on the anti-war left here: The Cairo Clique: Anti-Zionism and the Canadian Left

http://tinyurl.com/2gv7gn

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#3. April 3rd, 2008, at 11:26 PM.

I was under the impression Canada is physically unable to commit more troops to Afghanistan.

Can someone clarify?

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