Christie Blatchford does it again NEW ONE TODAY - 20 Jul 06

[military granny]

G&M and Christine Blatchford  put out another great article

http://www.theglobeandmail.com//servlet/story/RTGAM.20060720.wblatchford20/TPStory/National/columnists


(Edited by Moderator to insert column date in title.)

 

[MarkOttawa]

Canadians earn laurels in Afghan testing ground
http://www.theglobeandmail.com//servlet/story/RTGAM.20060720.wblatchford20/TPStory/National/columnists

Mark
Ottawa

 

[Chimo]

I'm proud of all those little buggers too, God bless them all, and Gen Fraser. Oh and Christie Blatchford for getting it right. 

 

[Booked_Spice]

Very good article.

Way to go Boys.. Keep up the good work!

 

[MikeM]

Great article, this is the type of things I like to see in the media, especially since I'll be getting in theatre soon, really motivates you even more.

 

[military granny]

http://www.theglobeandmail.com//servlet/story/LAC.20060721.BLATCHFORD21/TPStory/National/columnists

Another great column .

 

[Bobbyoreo]

Very good article!!!

 

[military granny]

http://www.theglobeandmail.com//servlet/story/RTGAM.20060722.coblatch22/TPStory/National/columnists

 

[vonGarvin]

My favourite quote from her in this one:
As is usual for the lucky generation of which I am a part, I had only to look after myself and, after a lifetime of it, I am good at it. I still wonder if I would have had the courage to do the other, any of the other. I remain untested, and in that sense, I think, I did not have a good war.
For those who have not read this, the "other" to which she refers means following orders, sticking your head above the wall and risking yourself, vice making yourself smaller, as it were.

+1 to Ms Blatchford

 

[MdB]

Blatchford's articles are eye openers. You really have an idea of what's going on (more or less) or the mood. We are so left in the dark from over-cleaned discourse.

I wish we had that kind of reporter in Quebec. Would do some good to the I-don't-care-we're-pacifists population here. They'll report more when the 22e deploy in 2007.

 

[GAP]

Christie's report on 2 Canadian Deaths 22 July 2006

'A Canadian success story within a tragedy'
CHRISTIE BLATCHFORD Globe and Mail Update 22 July 2006
http://www.theglobeandmail.com/servlet/story/RTGAM.20060723.w2afghansolde0723/BNStory/Afghanistan/home


Kandahar, Afghanistan — Just hours after two Canadian soldiers were killed and eight others wounded military convoys were once again rolling in and out of the giant dust bowl that is the Kandahar Air Field base.

Corporals Francisco Gomez and Jason Patrick Warren died last evening in a double-barrelled suicide bombing attack on the western outskirts of Kandahar City just as an enormous convoy of vehicles was returning home to the base after an astonishing 16 days of almost daily combat with the Taliban and insurgents.

"A Canadian success story within a tragedy," is the sorrowful label Canadian Brigadier-General Dave Fraser, who heads the eight-nation Coalition operation in southern Afghanistan, attached to the cruel end of the largest military operation in this country in four years.
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