Derek 2.0

New is clearly subjective........as was said, your link is from June.

Or the United States and Saudi Arabia have increased supply so much that the world price is declining, so much so that countries that rely heavily upon their own oil exports to stay afloat are feeling pressure........two such countries of course would be Iran and Russia....

Has any country joined the United States after the declaration of chemical weapons in the hands of ISIS several months ago? Also, how do you define support "fading"? Have countries since left any US effort? Who kept it secret? Your link is months old and at then end states: I think you're peeing on your own leg...........

Yet I'm sure if CBC/the Waldo could name one instance in which the RCN wasn't able to meet the requirements of the Government they/you would.....but since there isn't such an example, you can't. This still is quite an achievement, despite four accidents over the last several years that have forced the retirement of four ships early, combined with the previous Liberal Government retiring without replacement 1/3rd of our previous AOR fleet and 25% of our destroyer force.

Yet:

That would be subjective to the storage of said "stockpiles"......dependent upon the agent (Mustard gas, sarin, VX etc) and what said agents were in. Agents kept in a container with a hermetic seal, would have degraded to some degree based on age alone. Agents that have been weaponized, placed in a warhead for a artillery/mortar/rocket/bomb piece would degrade at a even faster rate.......then of course things like temperature, humidity, exposure to sunlight etc would also factor into said weapons lethality. Based on their age alone, in my opinion, their utility on a modern battlefield against a force equipped with modern detection and MOPP gear, combined with readily available supplies of anticholinergic and obidoxime, would be minimal at best.........now against an untrained force or civilians in a denser setting, they could still be very "functional".......

I have no idea, but they did have stockpiles of nerve agents, that were supposed to have been destroyed by the UN post 1991....Clearly a portion of said stockpile was "missed". I stated as much on the previous page....

Were said stockpiles abandoned pre-2003? As stated already (in the article) there would be no "political gain" from announcing said finds......I fail to see any of your claimed revisionism...

Incorrect and perhaps embellished, but as proven, Saddam did have stockpiles of chemical weapons.

Exactly, its like those that argue we could save money by purchasing the Eurofighter or Rafale.......they forget the costs associated with purchasing a new inventory of European weapons.......continuing along with ESSM and adding AEGIS/SPY-1 only makes sense for the navy.

Exactly, if it bleeds (from every orifice) it leads.......

Exactly......

I don't see the benefit (or detraction) to both the Bush and Obama administrations to declaring that a portion of the long known aged Iraqi stockpile was found......hardly a surprise.

News on this front: Also from the same link, following the same script of the F-35: Another political optic move, envisioned to remove yet another conjured scandal by the LPC/NDP, to lend the illusion that the RCN would consider a non-US weapons system for the replacements of our destroyers and frigates.......Welcome to Canada But of interest: A smart move would be to commit the funds allocated to the FWSAR program to purchasing all of the "spare" C-17s that Boeing is/has building (perhaps even justifying an additional order, extending Boeing's production of the aircraft), then use our already paid for C-130J fleet for FWSAR......That would add to the RCAF airlift capacity greatly.

You base that on what? From the GoC: Now I understand that said owners will have to purchase their fuel from a large oil company, which will set their own prices, but the inference by some, that end user purchase prices are determined by "big oil fat cats" is wrong in the vast majority of cases across Canada.

The majority of stations (in BC) are franchise owned, with the owners determining their own prices based on market realities.

Just paid 135.9 here.......regular is 115.9

That's dependent on if the station owner purchases his or her own gas........if so, they can sell it for whatever they want, hence why there are gas price "wars" among local retailers at times.

Chopping my quotes........nice. None the less, the consumer still pays the price "dictated" by the market......don't like it, buy a bus pass.

Indeed.......An interesting, yet "scary", idea would be if Ebola manged to find its way into the homeless/intravenous drug user population (here and in the United States), there I feel it would spread like wildfire.

You don't think the West/Israel is blaming ISIS for the recent attacks against the Kurds?

It's nearly the equal amount as to what Canada produces......if you don't feel that would effect the World price, or such a sizable amount so close to Europe (~1/3rd the production of Russia or larger than the combined British and Norwegian North Sea totals) and how that plays upon both world markets and geopolitics, then I think we're done here........I will add, you've been one of the first to suggest the military intervention in Libya was over oil, but now you're saying Libyan oil production is of little mater...

So you're suggesting the report from the WSJ is false? ~365 million barrels of oil doesn't effect the world price?

As the linked report stated, Libyan production will total upwards of a million barrels a day..........enough to effect the world price.

And that is subjective at best......Libya is producing and exporting oil.