[MD_Willington_1976]

Well it looks like Canada's military doesn't have a pot to piss in. The leader is a crackhead. And it looks like the liberals are on track to making Canada a 3rd world country..

I am sure glad that I had the opportunity to move to the USA, I've said it before, Canada is a socialist dictatorship that puts up a good front.

Here is the link to the CDA report, it is rather long because it is in both English & French...you know 2 official languages crap to please the Queerbeckers in Quebec

http://www.cda-cdai.ca/english-frame.htm

[pabianice]

Let's face it: this is the best time since 1814 for the U.S. to capture Canada. I say we do it.

[junta]

I don't think our elite is all that bothered that the countries of the West have essentially disarmed save for some useful occupation troops.

[Destructor]

"The eye-opening document makes the strongest case yet that 30 years of neglect and budget-slashing have left Canada's military dangerously dysfunctional. (This is the same group, remember, that in last year's report, pre-Sept. 11, pointed out our military investment ranks just ahead of Luxembourg's."

When are those Canucks going to figure it out? That's one of the first things that happens when you let Liberals run your country. Thirty years is a long time to be foolish!

[Billthedrill]

The danger isn't that the U.S. will take over Canada, the danger is what happens when the U.S. finally gets a bellyful of spilling blood to protect the interests of those who villify it, and pulls back its own military to protecting strictly its own interests. I mean very strictly - contrary to the hysterical insistence that "it's all about oil," the stakes of the U.S. with regard to domestic petroleum supplies are not particularly high in the Middle East. So we let them throw nukes at one another, so what? China wants the Spratlys? No skin off our nose.

I think that some sort of retrenchment is inevitable whether or not we get tired of the defense freeloaders, and the EU needs to be aware of this much more than Canada. The time for the buildup of regional security infrastructure is now before U.S. economic considerations make it mandatory. The U.S. cannot and will not maintain its worldwide defense expenditure in the defense of a nonexistent empire forever, and self-righteous anti-American rhetoric will not keep the barbarians from the gate.

[Lost Highway]

Canada has a military? Who'd a thunk it?

[Don W]

How badly have the Liberals in Ottawa decimated the Canadian Armed Forces? In 1938, the Cdn army alone had 63,000 men under arms. Plus the navy. The air force hadn't been fully formed yet. In 1945, From a population base of just over 12 million, Canada had sent a MILLION combatants into harm's way.

We had done most of the coastal mop-up, and liberated the low countries while England, Russia, and America chased the Nazi Wehrmacht back to Berlin.

We had the third largest navy on earth.

Today, as we speak, the TOTAL armed personnel in the forces (army, navy and air force combined) is less than 55,000. From a population of just over 30 million.

It's an utter disgrace.

[Vic3O3]

Sounds like Canada is ripe for annexing! But seriously, looks like they've saddled themselves with a liberal who 'loves' his military just like Clinton did... Let us all wish the Canadians good luck in getting rid of the cretin...oops! I meant Chretien...

[gcruse]

Canada is a socialist dictatorship

This does not pass for rationality.