ArmyRick
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I don't know if this is already been done, mods flog me if it is. My search on words consperacy turned up nothing.
Lately on CBC.ca web site, I have noticed alot of Canadians are very naive about what we really are doing/how we do business in Afghanistan or in general.
There have been several CF related stories lately and these are some common themes that pop up
1. The CF is in Afghanistan to fight a war for oil for Bush;
2. The CF is in Afghanistan to fight a war for the drug trade;
3. The CF would never investigate allegations agaisnt itself because it might look bad;
4. The CF is always involved in a cover up;
5. The CF is made up of poorly educated, young Canadians that have no where else to go or do;
6. They (these people posting remarks) demand that they know everything going and operational security is not transparent in a democratic society;
7. If the CF does investigate itself and charges no one, then the investigation is seriously flawed because we can not possibly discipline or control ourselves;
8. All of us in the CF are somehow nothing but props for both Harper and Bush/US policy; and
9. We must be committing war crimes because they happened in Viet Nam, therefore how could we resist?
With alot of these negative assumptions being made about the CF, it makes me wonder how I don't come in to work and see my boss wearing a patch over one eye and yelling "Yar maties, we be pirates!".
I mean, part of this is a rant and a vent about what people think we are doing in the CF. I guess they don't realize we have families, wives and husbands, children, moms and dads. We pay our taxes and bills like they do to. We don't get free beer. It breaks our heart to hear stories of inhuman violence. We understand the world is not a safe and wonderfull utopia like down town Toronto, Vancouver or Montreal.
I am not out to help defence companies make loads of money (or the oil industry) and I am not merely a government stoogie who does exactly what he is told.
It is too bad these people are the most biggotted, hatefull and prejudice people I can think of.
Anybody else want to chime in they're thoughts?
Lately on CBC.ca web site, I have noticed alot of Canadians are very naive about what we really are doing/how we do business in Afghanistan or in general.
There have been several CF related stories lately and these are some common themes that pop up
1. The CF is in Afghanistan to fight a war for oil for Bush;
2. The CF is in Afghanistan to fight a war for the drug trade;
3. The CF would never investigate allegations agaisnt itself because it might look bad;
4. The CF is always involved in a cover up;
5. The CF is made up of poorly educated, young Canadians that have no where else to go or do;
6. They (these people posting remarks) demand that they know everything going and operational security is not transparent in a democratic society;
7. If the CF does investigate itself and charges no one, then the investigation is seriously flawed because we can not possibly discipline or control ourselves;
8. All of us in the CF are somehow nothing but props for both Harper and Bush/US policy; and
9. We must be committing war crimes because they happened in Viet Nam, therefore how could we resist?
With alot of these negative assumptions being made about the CF, it makes me wonder how I don't come in to work and see my boss wearing a patch over one eye and yelling "Yar maties, we be pirates!".
I mean, part of this is a rant and a vent about what people think we are doing in the CF. I guess they don't realize we have families, wives and husbands, children, moms and dads. We pay our taxes and bills like they do to. We don't get free beer. It breaks our heart to hear stories of inhuman violence. We understand the world is not a safe and wonderfull utopia like down town Toronto, Vancouver or Montreal.
I am not out to help defence companies make loads of money (or the oil industry) and I am not merely a government stoogie who does exactly what he is told.
It is too bad these people are the most biggotted, hatefull and prejudice people I can think of.
Anybody else want to chime in they're thoughts?