 Peace activists demand Canada leave Afghanistan OTTAWA - Precious lives and scarce dollars are being wasted on the futile war in Afghanistan, peace activists cried out during marches and rallies across the country on Saturday.Commentsview comments in forum Page 1 You need to be a member of CKA and be logged into the site, to comment on news. |
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the closest sewer. Have a Peace of that....
The operative word here is "dozens". It's strange how small the turnouts for the peace movement have become since the Soviet Union disintegrated and their funding from Helsinki dried up.
From the link:
..."We feel that the Canadian people have been lied to by the government as to the purpose and goals over there," said protester Paula Kirman.
"Taxpayers' money is being wasted and there's not a lot of progress going on over there."...
From the on Kevin Page's (Parlimentary Budget Officer) report on the cost of the Afghanistan mission:
Just to drive the point home from The Torch: October "Pennies a day..." (about halfway down)
$1,500 per household over a decade works out to $150 per household per year. Assuming three people per household, that's $50 per Canadian per year. That works out to about 13.7¢ per Canadian per day to run the Afghan mission.
Just to give you a bit of perspective, World Vision - certainly a noble-minded and worthwhile charity - asks for about ten times that daily amount to sponsor a single child.
And what are Canadians getting for that miniscule investment? Col (ret'd) Mike Capstick ventured an opinion in an interview with CBC earlier today:
"You know, what's the price tag you put on global security? We have a country in an unstable area surrounded by nuclear powers. What's the cost of keeping that stable? At the same time, what is the benefit to the 33 million Afghans that we're there to support in terms of their ability to move in to the future? You know, accountants can put costs on things, but this is -- warfare is a human activity, not a fiscal activity..."
Yes, cause goodness knows Afghanistan is such the oil producing powerhouse. Why does the saying "Dumber than a bag of hammers" come to mind?
I don't know about all of you but I'm getting tired of all the hyperbole. I guess the election nonsense has run my tolerance level down.
From the link:
..."We feel that the Canadian people have been lied to by the government as to the purpose and goals over there," said protester Paula Kirman.
"Taxpayers' money is being wasted and there's not a lot of progress going on over there."...
From the on Kevin Page's (Parlimentary Budget Officer) report on the cost of the Afghanistan mission:
Just to drive the point home from The Torch: October "Pennies a day..." (about halfway down)
$1,500 per household over a decade works out to $150 per household per year. Assuming three people per household, that's $50 per Canadian per year. That works out to about 13.7¢ per Canadian per day to run the Afghan mission.
Just to give you a bit of perspective, World Vision - certainly a noble-minded and worthwhile charity - asks for about ten times that daily amount to sponsor a single child.
And what are Canadians getting for that miniscule investment? Col (ret'd) Mike Capstick ventured an opinion in an interview with CBC earlier today:
"You know, what's the price tag you put on global security? We have a country in an unstable area surrounded by nuclear powers. What's the cost of keeping that stable? At the same time, what is the benefit to the 33 million Afghans that we're there to support in terms of their ability to move in to the future? You know, accountants can put costs on things, but this is -- warfare is a human activity, not a fiscal activity..."
From the on Kevin Page's (Parlimentary Budget Officer) report on the cost of the Afghanistan mission:
Brings to mind that scene from Zulu when the quartermaster is doling out the exact amount of rounds each soldier was alloted as they are getting overrun.
Failure to plan on your part does not constitute an emergency on my part.
I was thinking more along the line of the sign that was over my QM:
Failure to plan on your part does not constitute an emergency on my part.
I think I saw the QM's corpse slumped over that sign in the closing credits