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No no Canmoore, they'll use it as a reason to justify withdrawing from Afghanistan;)
Certainly Layton will try this route, layout a time table for withdrawel from Afganistan, again the same old song and dance from our own tin foil beanie hat brigade...
Facts to a liberal is like Kryptonite to Superman.
It doesn't matter how liberal or conservative one is, it only matters to the terrorist that you do not follow the same brand of Islam he does. That is reason enough for them to kill you.
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Given the size of this country, and the locations of the facilities and length of pipelines it would not be one of the "hardest" targets for AQ to hit, I feel its unlikely they will at this time. But it does create an interesting question for me, given the size of the Canadian Military and its willingness to partake in the "war on terror" is it incumbent on Canada's allies (USA, UK etc) to offer assistance to the Canadian Government to protect these pipelines, and if they did, what would the reaction of the Canadian government and people be?
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More and more, that would be tasked to the militia units rather than the regforce. With MND O'Connor's leaks about 14 10-90 (10% regforce, 90% LFR) battalions to be stationed in major urban centres, that's about the major response units.
However, we're all caught up in the same boat and neither the US nor the UK can help that much. We don't have enough engineers to fully protect the pipelines. If we stripped all 3 armies of their engineers, we just might be able to protect Alberta. I don't want to think about the Yukons.
No no Canmoore, they'll use it as a reason to justify withdrawing from Afghanistan;)
Its almost laugh out funny.when George Bush's rating are going down osama shows up.
Canadians ask NATO to help in Afghanistan or they are out.all off sudden osama to the rescue again.man its almost hilarious .
Terrorism is not all about "blowing things up", fear,uncertainty and intimidation play a huge part, the internet and media have greatly increased the use of these three tactics
I think that the Canadian Wilderness is our best defence. Most of the pipeline lies in absolutely remote places, a terrorist (assuming one will be of arabic decent) will stick out like a flamingo to the locals.
Other than that, they have to fight off the bugs, muck, heat and hungry bears in the summer.
And Winter... well...no terrorist no matter how fanatical they may be, would be able to hump it out in the Canadian wilderness during winter alone...
Its almost laugh out funny.when George Bush's rating are going down osama shows up.
Canadians ask NATO to help in Afghanistan or they are out.all off sudden osama to the rescue again.man its almost hilarious .
Yeah, emagine if the terrorists just shut their pieholes, Bush would have been impeached by now and they would have an easy victory.
The flaw in your logic is, Al-Q was showing up even before Bush was in power...
Facts to a liberal is like Kryptonite to Superman.
I just remembered. Pipelines have been sabotaged before in Canada. An environmental group took responsibility. No one took notice. A busted pipe. Big deal. The repair crews shut down the line, repaired it, and went on.
That was the attitude.
Unless there is something really spectacular, like an entire refinery going up in flames, who's going to notice a busted pipe?
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