[Newsbot]

Title: Canada's deadly December in Afghanistan just bad luck
Category: Military
Posted By: Hyack
Date: 2008-12-29 19:24:31
Canadian

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Tegan Tegan:

If military casualties are blamed on bad luck, it sounds like there will be a lot more, since "accountability" while preached by this government is totally ignored.

Blame Chretien he sent them there.

[Gunnair]

Tegan Tegan:

If military casualties are blamed on bad luck, it sounds like there will be a lot more, since "accountability" while preached by this government is totally ignored.

That makes no sence.

[ridenrain]

Blame the Canadian Media who make every soldiers death the front page story while refusing to print any of the good work that those same soldiers are doing. History has shown that the weakest part is the resolve of elected public officials and that's why the Taliban are concentrating on Canadians.

[Gunnair]

ridenrain ridenrain:

Blame the Canadian Media who make every soldiers death the front page story while refusing to print any of the good work that those same soldiers are doing. History has shown that the weakest part is the resolve of elected public officials and that's why the Taliban are concentrating on Canadians.

Well let's be fair here. I agree that not enough is done to cover the good being done, but I don't begrudge the media one bit for their coverage of the deaths. I'd rather have what we get now than the ho-hum - 'nother death in Iraq coverage that seems to predominate the US. With the amount these people are doing and the risks they take, they should be given the extensive coverage the media gives when they're brought back in a metal coffin - it's not only a tribute to them, but it allows the general public to feel a certain emotional bond with the men and women their government has deployed in their name.

[roger-roger]

Tegan Tegan:

If military casualties are blamed on bad luck, it sounds like there will be a lot more, since "accountability" while preached by this government is totally ignored.

Another baseless, ignorant and credulous statement made by the undisputed Troll Queen, go back to whatever Tolkien book spawned you.

The rest of the world sees these IED attacks for what they are, acts of desperation. They dont really have a specific target and even those that place them are at risk of being killed by them. Its not a problem that is ignored or downplayed. To say it is bad luck is quite a callous statement to make in a national paper, but we are talking about an interpretation from the CBC. I have feeling the reporter who wrote this story feels that Canada is stepping outside its Band-Aids and Bonbons role of Peacekeeping.