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Forum: Canada
Apr 17th 2008, 4:18 pm
Replies: 142
Views: 7,655
Posted By iaink

Re: Mail on Sunday

Sure, nations still disagree, but currently if two nations start to wage war, the UN more often than not steps in, passes a resolution and often peace keeping troops are sent in to prevent things...
Forum: Canada
Apr 17th 2008, 2:03 pm
Replies: 142
Views: 7,655
Posted By iaink

Re: Mail on Sunday

Might as well disband the UN and scrap all the peace keeping missions now then.

I wonder how the world will look in 50 years time if nations stop cooperating together and just look at issues when...
Forum: Canada
Apr 17th 2008, 1:46 pm
Replies: 142
Views: 7,655
Posted By iaink

Re: Mail on Sunday

Indifference implies that you dont think what they do matters at all.
Forum: Canada
Apr 17th 2008, 1:29 pm
Replies: 142
Views: 7,655
Posted By iaink

Re: Mail on Sunday

No nation is an island and for better or worse we live in an international community and have obligations that arise from that. The war in Afghanistan was clearly UN mandated and it is clear to me...
Forum: Canada
Apr 16th 2008, 8:29 pm
Replies: 142
Views: 7,655
Posted By iaink

Re: Mail on Sunday

They ALL joined for the same reason did they? Now THATs a stretch for sure!
Forum: Canada
Apr 16th 2008, 8:18 pm
Replies: 142
Views: 7,655
Posted By iaink

Re: Mail on Sunday

"most people" Bazzz? Have you started speaking for the great unwashed masses now?


Sure, perhaps most people dont agree with the reason the troops are there and think they should withdraw, but I...
Forum: Canada
Apr 16th 2008, 7:52 pm
Replies: 142
Views: 7,655
Posted By iaink

Re: Mail on Sunday

More sensitive than you, clearly.
Forum: Canada
Apr 16th 2008, 7:39 pm
Replies: 142
Views: 7,655
Posted By iaink

Re: Mail on Sunday

They arent really in a position to deal with normal people when incapacitated by their injuries and post traumatic shock....I think that was the whole point...
Forum: Canada
Apr 16th 2008, 7:37 pm
Replies: 142
Views: 7,655
Posted By iaink

Re: Mail on Sunday

Hey, we as a society voted for the politicians who put them in harms way, so yes, we put them there, and yes, we do owe them.

I get so pissed off when people misdirect their anger at the...
Forum: Canada
Apr 16th 2008, 7:18 pm
Replies: 142
Views: 7,655
Posted By iaink

Re: Mail on Sunday

Its not a question of better, its a question of getting the most suitable treatment in the most suitable environment. Thats the least we owe those who stand up and get shot at on our behalf.
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Forum: Canada
Apr 16th 2008, 7:06 pm
Replies: 142
Views: 7,655
Posted By iaink

Re: Mail on Sunday

It would seem to be a red herring anyway as the incident was about the fact that UK soldiers are treated in "mixed" NHS wards and anyone who wants seems (allegedly) to be able to walk in and have...
Forum: Canada
Apr 16th 2008, 6:09 pm
Replies: 142
Views: 7,655
Posted By iaink

Re: Mail on Sunday

Its says far more to me about the idiots making policy at hospital than it did about muslims, and was (perhaps) fair comment about the way service people are viewed in the respective countries (which...
Forum: Canada
Apr 16th 2008, 5:11 pm
Replies: 142
Views: 7,655
Posted By iaink

Re: Mail on Sunday

And you just had to share it didnt you:mad:


I was eating too.
Forum: Canada
Apr 16th 2008, 4:44 pm
Replies: 142
Views: 7,655
Posted By iaink

Re: Mail on Sunday

Something along the lines of get yourself a real computer, not a Mac.....


Oh no, that was a different one. It says that in the UK they ask service people to change into civies at the hospital ...
Forum: Canada
Apr 16th 2008, 4:37 pm
Replies: 142
Views: 7,655
Posted By iaink

Re: Mail on Sunday

Just seems like common sense to me, but then Im not a macho military type. Im just suprised he was able to bail out at the sign of trouble...I would have thought there were rules to cover that kind...
Forum: Canada
Apr 16th 2008, 4:35 pm
Replies: 142
Views: 7,655
Posted By iaink

Re: Mail on Sunday

If its a statement of fact how is it racist?

Now, I dont know if its fact or not, but it wouldnt altogether surprise me if some P.C. idiot had come up with that... on the other hand it also...
Forum: Canada
Apr 16th 2008, 3:52 pm
Replies: 142
Views: 7,655
Posted By iaink

Re: Mail on Sunday

My dad spent two years in the RAF doing not much more that playing bridge....but todays armed forces are rather different to the days of national service I suspect.

I suspect that (as usual) the...
Forum: Canada
Apr 15th 2008, 5:08 pm
Replies: 142
Views: 7,655
Posted By iaink

Re: Mail on Sunday

Well said Souv!
Forum: Canada
Apr 14th 2008, 5:53 pm
Replies: 142
Views: 7,655
Posted By iaink

Re: Mail on Sunday

Not all veterans smoke. Having survived the vagaries of war, it would be a little cruel to be struck down by other peoples smoke.


A side issue is that the legion also employs people some of...
Forum: Canada
Apr 14th 2008, 4:01 pm
Replies: 142
Views: 7,655
Posted By iaink

Re: Mail on Sunday

Er, cos if they survive till they are 35 or 36 they can retire on a full pension...

and because lots of people at the legion DONT smoke, so why should they have to breathe in second hand smoke?
Forum: Canada
Apr 14th 2008, 3:55 pm
Replies: 142
Views: 7,655
Posted By iaink

Re: Mail on Sunday

I dont think it was just spin, certainly the facts presented by the mail regarding those early corteges were broadly true. There is still media coverage now, but its not at the same level as before...
Forum: Canada
Apr 14th 2008, 2:35 pm
Replies: 142
Views: 7,655
Posted By iaink

Re: Mail on Sunday

Who knew so many British expats in Canada still read the Mail on Sunday online...did you read the comments there?

I guess they need to keep convincing themselves that they made the right decision...
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