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Old 10-27-2010, 04:25 PM   #139
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Originally Posted by burn_this_city View Post
If you looked at total cost for the cancellation and not just the penalty incurred, it cost us billions of dollars.
And we were stuck for another couple of decades with hideously dangerous helipcopters where the average pilot updated his last will and testiment before spinning up the engine.

This reminds me of the whole Iltis jeep fiasco where Chretien pushed through their purchase because his boy was a mover and shaker at Bombardier and we got the crap gouged out of us for one of the most useless military vehicles ever created.

I don't mind some of the Liberal Policies, but their handling of the military pisses me off.
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