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No it's not, actually...

That's stupid...

Speak of the Devil...

Yeah, I'd say the inability to maintain a level of recruiting that offsets loses due to "early retirements" is a recruiting problem.

This is typical. It seems to me that every time Israel is held to the same standard, odious accusations of anti-Semitism start to fly. You have to admit that this whole notion of considering itself the "choosen people" kind of might have something to do with the way people perceive Jews.

Palpable? Please spare me the victim mentality...

Yeah, it was funny watching CBC earlier today and they we talking about the manpower crisis that the CF has, and thinking back to a few months ago when M.Dancer--or was it White Doors?--was claiming that the CF was having no problems with recruiting... guess not!!!!

The thing is though that God doesn't "will" people to do things that are sinful, worldly, and self-serving... Truer words have never been spoken, yet Palin appears to have forgotten this whilst out buying a new wardrobe: "4:4You adulterers and adulteresses, don't you know that friendship with the world is enmity with God? Whoever therefore wants to be a friend of the world makes himself an enemy of God."

Yes, because they've blown big money and gotten away with it. So if this kind of problem still exists, it is their fault. Stop blaming it on a minority government. The Liberals are more than willing to prop up the Cons, so in reality it is a majority for at least two years. Think of some other excuse.

From what I've been seeing and reading, there have been a number of attacks against people and churches because of this issue. Interesting how that doesn't make the news, but two women trying to get attention about a dispute over a parking space in Oshawa does...

What are you like 13 years-old "dude"?!?!!?!?!? To the best of my knowledge the Vietnam Wall doesn't include the names of men who died in Afghanistan during the 19th century while serving in the British Army...

That's pretty bright... now how about actually naming someone from the British army who died in Afghanistan during the 19th century... that was, after all, what the question was in reference to...

What it says to me is that she actually thinks that God is on her side, on the side of the United States; that she believes that God would possibly guide her in her quest to participate in politics--an inherently corrupt, worldly and sinful institution. As per my previous statement: I disagree. Probably because those politicians want to win and know how half-baked it sounds. I suppose she can get away with it in Alaska... Well, from my standpoint that would be something of a contradiction in referring to elements of witchcraft. Perhaps we should take this as a sign of her true inner nature. Kind of looks like one. c'est possible... You seem to be mighty sensitive about this; am I to assume that you are of a similar religious mindset, that you perhaps even feel a certain amount of affinity towards her? God only knows that Alberta is filled with people of various fundamentalists outlooks...

The most "brilliant" scientists are in the end mere mortals, with only a very small fraction of the knowledge and wisdom of God. Someday perhaps... Ummm... it's all around you. So how does asking someone to explain the meaning a of a word make you understand the true meaning of an entire book that you can't even read because you're sitting in the dark. Before you can even begin to read, you need to turn on the light... I'm not forcing you to believe, I'm just suggesting that you recognize the truth. Just because you deny something exists, doesn't mean that it's not there.

Oh, yeah, great moves...

That's nice that you get to chat with the locals, but I hope you don't believe what they say; they're obviously not going to tell a bunch of armed [add your favorite term for "foreign soldier"] what they think of you. The truth--the real truth--is what goes behind closed doors among politicians, diplomats, business elites: these are things that you are not privy to, no matter how much time you spend on the streets chatting with the common Afghani. Don't kid yourself that you really know what's going on, because all you're there to do is pull a trigger when need be. Okay, off the top of your head name one... Thought so. Well, that complete inability to remember just one name is basically how it'll be a hundred years from now. Having a conviction sometimes means not doing something. Why would I learn how to shoot a gun and kill people if I prefer that we all live in peace. Isn't it essentially people like you who believe that their convictions need to be enforced through violence that are the root of the problem in Afghanistan? I'll tell you one thing, it takes more balls to express one's pacifist views to a person such as yourself, than it is to always rely on the threat of violence and death to have one's views accepted. Guarenteed that in person you get flaming mad if anyone says something you don't agree with to your face. Militaries in general tend to do this: yes. Has it happened in Canada: in isolated instances perhaps, depending on what side of the equation you're on. During the war of 1812, the Riel Rebellion, during World War One Canadian soldiers shot and killed civilians, broke up anti-war rallies by starting brawls; a limited extent during the FLQ crisis, by order of Trudeau ironically enough. Awww... come on... don't retire; you make such good cannon fodder... besides, it sucks reading about somebody who gets killed during their first tour: you wouldn't want that guilt on you conscience, would you? Oh look at this, the guy's asking me out on a date... sorry pal, but I'm not into hooking up with people over the Net. One would think you wouldn't have to resort to such a thing given your accomodations...

It doesn't? http://www.newhumanist.com/oil.html "Soviet estimates from the late 1970s placed Afghanistan's proven and probable oil and condensate reserves at 95 million barrels. Oil exploration and development work as well as plans to build a 10,000-bbl/d refinery were halted after the 1979 Soviet invasion." "The Soviets had estimated Afghanistan's proven and probable natural gas reserves at up to 5 trillion cubic feet (Tcf) in the 1970s. Afghan natural gas production reached 275 million cubic feet per day (Mmcf/d) in the mid-1970s. However, due to declining reserves from producing fields, output gradually fell to about 220 Mmcf/d by 1980. At that time, the Jorquduq field was brought online and was expected to boost Afghan natural gas output to 385 Mmcf/d by the early 1980s. However, sabotage of infrastructure by the anti-Soviet mujaheddin fighters limited the country's total production to 290 Mmcf/d, an output level that was held fairly steady until the Soviet withdrawal in 1989. After the Soviet pullout and subsequent Afghan civil war, roughly 31 producing wells at Sheberghan area fields were shut in pending the restart of natural gas sales to the former Soviet Union." But it's more significant for its location in respect to other oil and gas resources.

I'm not mocking anyone. I just don't think that I have to buy his or anyone else's argument based on the fact that they have a certain supposed status.

You see, M.Dancer's post typifies the nonsense that is involved with this issue. Afghanistan is a desolate, impoverished nation--would be with or without war. While it would be good to see them live in peace, that's something that they need to determine, and if it doesn't work out then that's really there problem. This is exactly the policy that we pursue with scores of other countries that have major social issues; but since they don't have oil or gas... who cares, right?

We hear very little about what it really is like in Afghanistan. The fact of the matter is that Canada has simply become another western country meddling in the affairs of a foreign country on behalf of a puppet regime. Some may want us there, but most apparently do not. With the Canadians and others racing through their streets at breakneck speed, running down and gunning down civilians on a regular basis, it should come as no surprise. The fact of the matter is that Canada was there to support the search for Osama bin-Laden, but if he's not dead no one really seems to be able to find him. Whether or not Afghanistan is a democracy or not, is not our problem.

That's what you have to believe though, for one reason or another. If you actually looked at the truth about what's going on, I doubt you'd really feel such a strong conviction. I'm sure there were men in the British army in 19th century who felt that what they were accomplishing in Afghanistan was for some noble purpose, but look what has happened since then--and who remembers the men who died all those years ago for something that turned out to be in vain? Boy, you just don't get it, do you? You people in the military really love to thank yourselves on behald of all Canadians--especially those who don't agree with you--in order to validate yourselves, don't you? And likening yourself to Terry Fox is a complete joke. History shows that the military is more prone to inhibit rather than protect people's rights. We can only be thankful that the Canadian military is as small as it is--and underfunded. Even with its small size it has enough of an influence on politics... Why don't you get a job where you can do something positive for this world without having the capacity to kill? Work for an NGO in a warzone--but that takes balls, I guess...

that'll be the day...

You mean people who believe that immorality and sexual deviance is wrong? Yeah, go figure...

Apparently Palin is going around saying that she'll run for office again if it is God's will that she does so. Since dimmy thinks that I'm so stupid and and idiot, could somebody please explain to me what this means?

Actually, the best that science can come up with is that everything started with a "Big Bang," in other words at some point everything that that now exists was in a way "created"... Hmmmm... So you want God proven "beyond a shadow of a doubt" but you will accept the argument that humans evolved from apes in Africa based on few fossilized bone fragments. Riiiight... Your inability to understand the existance of God is not different than passively staring at a page in a book written in a language that you don't understand while sitting in a room that is completely without light. Why should I accept your judgement on God, then? Answering questions with questions is useless.