[CaptainCrunch]

We all know that I'm a big proponent of the Canadian Military, thats no secret. I firmly believe that our men and woman when placed in a bad situation should not have to fight a battle on three fronts.

1) We know that they have to fight any enemy thats put in front of them. Peacekeeping isn't all about diplomacy, its also about projecting strength so you can difuse situation, its about being able to forcable enforce the peace. Its about being able to defend yourself. whats unacceptable is this

2) Fighting obsolete equipment, we shouldn't have to worry about our troops being taken out by mines, RPG's and light machine guns. We shouldn't have to worry about our troops going down in 30 year old helicopters, or riding around in un-armoured vehicles, or 25 year old armoured vehicles that couldn't stop a thrown knife. We souldn't have to worry about pilots dying when thier CF-18's with stressed airframes start droppping from the sky

3) Troops shouldn't be lead by ineffective senior officers who are more concerned with politics then saving or preserving the lives of thier troops, we shouldn't have to worry about a Liberal government that over promises our commitments.

so you have to ask yourself why Captain Crunch is supremely p*ssed. After reading todays sun and getting some grey confirmation from some friends of mine it appears that the Canadian forces is going to undergo further gutting at the hands of the Liberal government.

Paul Martin our intrepid and brilliant Prime Minister has decided that he wants add 5000 peacekeepers to our forces composition, however he's decided brilliantly that he dosen't want to increase the defense budget by one penny in order to do this. Instead he's going to further cut down key equipment to reach his goal. So hows he going to achieve this lofty goal.

1) Our four command and control Destroyers, the 280 Iroquois class destroyers are to be mothballed, leaving us with a frigate navy of 12 Halifax class frigates. this leaves us with an ASW platform and thats all. these frigates as good as they are are not designed for anti-air or antiship operations, they are built mainly to hunt subs. so when we send these ships on the next UN or nato requirement and they get gutted if something happens, hey at least we have 5000 under equiped peacekeepts to fall back on.

2) The new multi-purpose Navy vessels designed to carry troops, equipment and helicopters to danger areas will not be built, so we're going to depend on our allies to not only get our troops to the required areas, but we're going to depend on allied resupply. Brilliant planning on the Liberal's part.

3) Our airforce of CF-18's bought in the 80's which are in need of replacement are going to be drawn down by 25%, We currently have 60 combat functional CF-18's thats going to be drawn down to about 45 operational with the rest being used as either trainers or spare parts bins. Beryond the fact that the airframes are 20 years old and the avionics packages don't reach NATO standards, we're not going to replace them.

4) We're replacing our Leopard 1 tanks with Stryker assualt vehicles. A wheeled lightly armoured vehicle that will be used on UN peacekeeping or anti terrorist missions where weapons such as the RPG, or recoiless rifles will quickly turn the vehicles into funeral pyres, and our crews into corpses

5) the Liberal government in order to reach its lofty goal of adding 5000 lightly armed (pistol probably) peacekeepers is looking at closing down 5 Military bases in Winnipeg, GooseBay, BagotVille and North Bay. so not only are we going to screw over the economies of those towns and cities, but we're going to destroy any kind of fast response to crisis in those areas.

The Sun is stating that the Airforce a proud Canadian tradition could be gone by 2013 and the Navy could followup shortly afterwards. All so the Liberals can blow billions of dollars elsewhere on thier friends or on thier ######ed and stupid social programs.

Our defense minister Bill Graham who has no idea what the term realism means when it comes to soft power must be under the pay of some foreign power, this pinko idiot and Paul Martin are guilty of no less then treason as they not only leave us wide open to danger, but we will be forced to rely on other nations for our defense again.

People might be tempted to come on here and state that we can't afford to upgrade our defense capibilities and take care of our troops, and I state right here that the argument is BS. the Liberals found a billion dollars for a gun registry that dosen't work. They found hundreds of millions for Jane Stewart and Sheila Copps to blow on ridiculous programs. They found millions to spend on thier buddies in the ad agencies, yet when it comes to the men and woman who actually face death and danger there's no cash.

the Liberals are dangerous to the survival of Canada both economically and Military. A Soviet mole in the 70's is a lot less dangerous to the viability of this country.

they used to hang traitors

Yuri Antropov is probably laughing in hell right now