08.26.08
The Truth ABout Russia in Georgia
from Michael J. Totten:
Virtually everyone believes Georgian President Mikheil Saakashvili foolishly provoked a Russian invasion on August 7, 2008, when he sent troops into the breakaway district of South Ossetia. “The warfare began Aug. 7 when Georgia launched a barrage targeting South Ossetia,” the Associated Press reported over the weekend in typical fashion.Virtually everyone is wrong. Georgia didn’t start it on August 7, nor on any other date. The South Ossetian militia started it on August 6 when its fighters fired on Georgian peacekeepers and Georgian villages with weapons banned by the agreement hammered out between the two sides in 1994. At the same time, the Russian military sent its invasion force bearing down on Georgia from the north side of the Caucasus Mountains on the Russian side of the border through the Roki tunnel and into Georgia. This happened before Saakashvili sent additional troops to South Ossetia and allegedly started the war.
Read the whole (long) article here.
In other words, what has been reported, for the most part, in the Main Stream Media (Western Media) is the result of the Russian Media Warfare Machine, and not the reality. In fact, Michael’s website has already undergone at least one Russian-based cyber warfare attack.
Most of what Totten is reporting can be confirmed by digging into reporting of past events – but you’ll have to dig deep to find most of it. And you’ll have to go back to 1991 or even earlier…
08.19.08
How Russia conquers its neighbours
‘Putin has given us an order that everyone must leave or be shot’ – Russian Soldier to Georgian woman
“The soldiers told us they had an order from Putin – leave or be killed.” Manana Dioshvili showed no emotion as she described how Russian troops forced her to flee her home. Her former neighbours nodded in agreement, huddled together in a kindergarten whose windows had been blown out by a Russian bomb.
“That’s how they explained themselves to us,” she recalled of the moment they fled the ethnic Georgian village of Kurta, near the capital of South Ossetia, Tskhinvali.
“They said, ‘Putin has given us an order that everyone must be either shot or forced to leave’. They told us we should ask the Americans for help now because they would kill us if we stayed.”
Vardo Babutidze, 79, was not lucky enough to be visited by Russian soldiers. Her husband Georgi, 85, was shot twice through the chest by an Ossetian paramilitary who came to their house to demand weapons.
“We didn’t have any guns, so he shot Georgi in front of me without saying a word,” she said. “A neighbour helped me to bury him in our garden and then I just fled.”
Manana Galigashvili, 53, whose husband Andrei stared vacantly from a bed behind her, said that Ossetian soldiers had returned later and torched the house. They, too, had left after a soldier threatened to slit their throats.
Frightened refugees told similar stories all over the city of Gori yesterday as the Russian army extended its reach deep into Georgian territory despite a ceasefire agreement signed by President Medvedev that requires them to withdraw.
Troops and tanks moved to within 25 miles (40km) of the capital, Tbilisi, setting up roadblocks and digging in defensive positions in the hills above the highway. A line of tanks faced towards Tbilisi outside the village of Kaspi, a day after soldiers had blown up the railway line linking the capital to Georgia’s main port of Poti.
Six Russian checkpoints have been set up on the road from Tbilisi to Gori, starting at the village of Igoeti, the closest to the capital that occupying troops have been since the conflict started on August 7. Troops searched the few cars that were allowed on to the road by Georgian police, who blocked the highway three miles away and fumed at the latest indignity heaped upon them by the Russians.
The heavy military presence all along the route offered no indication that Russian forces were preparing to comply with President Medvedev’s promise by withdrawing today. However, convoys of aid from the International Red Cross and the United Nations High Commission for Refugees were allowed to travel into Gori.
Alexander Lomaia, Georgia’s National Security Council secretary, stood in the shadow of Stalin’s statue in Gori’s main square and admitted that he had no idea when or if the Russians would go. He said he had been unable even to obtain assurances that they would not enter Tbilisi, a prospect that has left many Georgians in a state of panic.
“If they are not staying here, why did they blow up our TV centre and bring their transmitters to broadcast their own TV and radio? It looks very suspicious,” he said. “It is a matter of fact that they have expanded geographically since yesterday.
“We feel legally bound to the commitment to cease fire that we have made but it looks like they don’t feel committed to this agreement. After the ceasefire, they exploded the bridge and went deeper into our territory … they have cut the country in two.”
The regional governor, Lado Vardzelashvili, has returned to Gori but the Russians still refuse to allow Georgian police into the city.
Mr Lomaia said: “We have two options – either we attack them to get into the city or obey the rules that they impose … They say that the moment they see any Georgian police cars in the city they will shoot.”
Although many buildings in the main square have suffered bomb damage Gori remains largely intact, contrary to Georgian government claims that it had been destroyed. But food supplies are running low.
Behind the shattered glass walls of Gori’s “Complex Sports School”, refugees screamed and jostled each other as local officials tried to distribute boxes of food supplied by the Turkish Red Crescent. Each box contained packets of flour, rice, beans and pasta.
Outside, a group of women complained that profiteers had been selling aid. Nana Piekrishvili said: “They organise lines and tell us to come at a particular time but then they have nothing to give us. There are men walking away with aid boxes and we get nothing. They are also coming to people’s homes and looking for humanitarian aid to take back so that they can start selling it on the streets.”
Despite refusing to allow Georgian police into Gori, there were few Russian troops visible inside the city, though tanks blocked a road about 500 metres from the main square.
Locals said that the army had withdrawn to the outskirts of Gori but patrolled the streets in armoured vehicles at night and had imposed a 10pm curfew. Everyone is now waiting to see if the Russians will leave.
Mr Lomaia seemed highly sceptical. He said: “I think they will ask for some concessions and will be bargaining hard. That’s why they are taking as many places as they can now.”
Source
03.31.08
The Worst Canadian in History
Pierre Elliot Trudeau
Lionel Chetwynd
But I have seen this virus before; it devastated a country I loved, a place that nurtured me and raised me up.In that Canadian day, we called it “Trudeaumania,” the suggestion of “Beatlemania” pop idol glitter being no accident. Even those of us in his Liberal party were powerless to stop the mad embrace millions of Canadians threw around Pierre Elliott Trudeau with his promise of reconciliation of the two founding peoples, a happy era when the English (more correctly, Scottish) heritage would join hands with the French legacy and take us forward into a brave new age. And he’d reforge our relationship with “The Elephant to our South.”
That he was completely non-specific, avoiding policy questions in favour of depending entirely on his style and panache (and goodness knows, he had a surfeit of both) would surely undo him—or so those of us who believed him to be a hard line leftist (because we’d read his essays in Cite Libre and studied his record) reassured ourselves.
Of course, we were wrong; his very lack of specificity was his strength. A brilliant orator, he spun webs around huge crowds, proposing big ideas in obscure terms, making it possible for the listener to impose any dream they wished upon his smiling, Savile Row-suited tabula rasa. He was all things to all people. In service to “party loyalty” and civility, we held our tongues.
And, in the meantime, the delighted English-language media, at last faced with a French-speaking Canadian they could love, dubbed him “Canada’s JFK.” By the time he and they were done, the damage would be staggering, even two generations later.
In the 1960s, Canada still basked in the glory of the extraordinary achievements of its own Greatest Generation. She had raised the largest army in the world, per capita, to fight Hitler (1.4 million out of a population of 11 million) and had emerged from the Second World War as the world’s second-largest industrial power, devoting a vast part of this treasure to financing the Colombo Plan, “the Marshall Plan of Asia.” To this day, much of the infrastructure of Pakistan, India and South Asia was paid for by Canadians. Those Canadians had scarcely any quotas or laws against American popular culture; indeed, they generally viewed the United States with affection, some even with admiration. True, many harboured a residual anger at America’s over-two-year delay in entering the war, but it was a family squabble that could be put aside. The greatest bloom of that Canada was 1967, the summer of Expo.
The following year, Pierre Elliott Trudeau become prime minister…
Read the whole thing, where Lionel Chetwynd, in the National Post, sees another Trudeau in gestation, this one known as Barack Hussein Obama. Read more about Trudeau here.
03.27.08
Kangaroo Court
Kangaroo Court
A kangaroo court or kangaroo trial, sometimes likened to a drumhead court-martial or Drumhead trial, is a sham legal proceeding or court. Kangaroo courts are judicial proceedings that deny due process in the name of expediency. The outcome of such a trial is essentially made in advance, usually for the purpose of providing a conviction, either by going through the motions of manipulated procedure or by allowing no defense at all. —wikipedia
Ezra Levant has this stunning, and revealing expose:
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This matter has been proceeding for four years; to investigate and prosecute this case, the CHRC has not only deployed the full weight of their own government staff, but they’ve retained a series of expensive private sector lawyers as well, such as the comical Giacomo “Serenity Now!” Vigna. I’d conservatively estimate that $2-million in taxpayers’ money has been spent to date, but this being a government enterprise, the true number might be closer to $5 million. A half-dozen interveners, including the federal government, have sent lawyers, too, even if they merely sit in the hearing all day, not saying a word. And, of course, the Tribunal itself has been seized with this matter for well over a year, with about 20 days of hearings to date, in at least two cities.Why was Tuesday’s hearing the one day that won’t be transcribed and published? Why was a trifling savings of a court stenographer—who costs, what, a third of what a lawyer bills?—chosen as the one area of economy to find? Is the Tribunal, with the unlimited resources of the government, out of cash?
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Read the whole thing.
04.21.07
The Axis of Nuclear Evil
Read this:
‘I found Saddam’s WMD bunkers’
‘Apparently Saddam had the last laugh and donated his secret stockpile to benefit Iran’s nuclear weapons programme. With a little technical advice from Beijing, Syria is now enriching the uranium, Iran is making the missiles, North Korea is testing the warheads, and the White House is hiding its head in the sand.’
People that insist that the intelligence community botched the WMD in Iraq issue in the lead-up to Operation Iraqi Freedom and that the Bush administration has botched OIF in the aftermath have got it wrong. The Intelligence community got it right before the war, but then lost the ball after the Coalition went into Iraq. The Intelligence community is now and has been actively trying to hide the fact that the WMD were found, and that they let them slip through their fingers. The Bush administration has been unable to recover from that, and that is where the Bush administration has really screwed the pooch.
Just think about what things might be like in Iraq today, if the WMD had not been spirited away right under the Iraq Survey Group’s nose, and the anti-Bush crowd could not have started spouting their “Bush Lied, ...” mantra. Of course, “shoulda, coulda, woulda” doesn’t help much…
This story needs to be shouted from the rooftops…
03.27.07
Speaking Truth To Power - For Real
Such truth was spoken by UN Watch director Hillel Neuer in session at the UN Human Rights Commission in Geneva.
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Transcript:
Statement:
Mr. President,
Six decades ago, in the aftermath of the Nazi horrors, Eleanor Roosevelt, Réné Cassin and other eminent figures gathered here, on the banks of Lake Geneva, to reaffirm the principle of human dignity. They created the Commission on Human Rights. Today, we ask: What has become of their noble dream?
In this session we see the answer. Faced with compelling reports from around the world of torture, persecution, and violence against women, what has the Council pronounced, and what has it decided?
Nothing. Its response has been silence. Its response has been indifference. Its response has been criminal.
One might say, in Harry Truman’s words, that this has become a Do-Nothing, Good-for-Nothing Council.
But that would be inaccurate. This Council has, after all, done something.
It has enacted one resolution after another condemning one single state: Israel. In eight pronouncements—and there will be three more this session—Hamas and Hezbollah have been granted impunity. The entire rest of the world—millions upon millions of victims, in 191 countries—continue to go ignored.
So yes, this Council is doing something. And the Middle East dictators who orchestrate this campaign will tell you it is a very good thing. That they seek to protect human rights, Palestinian rights.
So too, the racist murderers and rapists of Darfur women tell us they care about the rights of Palestinian women; the occupiers of Tibet care about the occupied; and the butchers of Muslims in Chechnya care about Muslims.
But do these self-proclaimed defenders truly care about Palestinian rights?
Let us consider the past few months. More than 130 Palestinians were killed by Palestinian forces. This is three times the combined total that were the pretext for calling special sessions in July and November. Yet the champions of Palestinian rights—Ahmadinejad, Assad, Khaddafi, John Dugard—they say nothing. Little 3-year-old boy Salam Balousha and his two brothers were murdered in their car by Prime Minister Haniyeh’s troops. Why has this Council chosen silence?
Because Israel could not be blamed. Because, in truth, the dictators who run this Council couldn’t care less about Palestinians, or about any human rights.
They seek to demonize Israeli democracy, to delegitimize the Jewish state, to scapegoat the Jewish people. They also seek something else: to distort and pervert the very language and idea of human rights.
You ask: What has become of the founders’ dream? With terrible lies, it is being turned into a nightmare.
Thank you, Mr. President.
Response:
UN HUMAN RIGHTS COUNCIL PRESIDENT LUIS ALFONSO DE ALBA:
For the first time in this session I will not express thanks for that statement. I shall point out to the distinguished representative of the organization that just spoke, the distinguished representative of United Nations Watch, if you’d kindly listen to me. I am sorry that I’m not in a position to thank you for your statement. I should mention that I will not tolerate any similar statements in the Council. The way in which members of this Council were referred to, and indeed the way in which the council itself was referred to, all of this is inadmissible. In the memory of the persons that you referred to, founders of the Human Rights Commission, and for the good of human rights, I would urge you in any future statements to observe some minimum proper conduct and language. Otherwise, any statement you make in similar tones to those used today will be taken out of the records.
(emphasis mine)
“...will be taken out of the records”
Not hardly.
(via Little Green Footballs)
03.19.07
History lessons are often incredibly simple.
Why the Peaceful Majority is Irrelevant
by Paul E. Marek
Extract:
History lessons are often incredibly simple and blunt; yet, for all our powers of reason, we often miss the most basic and uncomplicated of points. Peace-loving Muslims have been made irrelevant by the fanatics. Peace-loving Muslims have been made irrelevant by their silence. Peace-loving Muslims will become our enemy if they don’t speak up, because, like my friend from Germany, they will awaken one day and find that the fanatics own them, and the end of their world will have begun.Peace-loving Germans, Japanese, Chinese, Russians, Rwandans, Bosnians, Afghanis, Iraqis, Palestinians, Somalis, Nigerians, Algerians and many others, have died because the peaceful majority did not speak up until it was too late. As for us, watching it all unfold, we must pay attention to the only group that counts: the fanatics who threaten our way of life.
12.20.06
Welcome to the Conservative Party
A young woman was about to finish her first year of college. Like so many others her age, she considered herself to be a good NDP-er, and was very much in favor of the redistribution of wealth.
She was deeply ashamed that her father was a rather staunch Conservative, a feeling she openly expressed. Based on the lectures that she had participated in, and the occasional chat with a professor, she felt that her father had for years harbored an evil, selfish desire to keep what he thought should be his.
One day she was challenging her father on his opposition to higher taxes on the rich and the addition of more government welfare programs. The self-professed objectivity proclaimed by her professors had to be the truth and she indicated so to her father.
He responded by asking her how she was doing in school.
Taken aback, she answered rather haughtily that she had a 4.0 GPA, and let him know that it was tough to maintain, insisting that she was taking a very difficult course load and was constantly studying, which left her no time to go out and party like other people she knew. She didn’t even have time for a boyfriend, and didn’t really have many college friends because she spent all her time studying.
Her father listened and then asked, “How is your friend Audrey doing?â€
She replied, “Audrey is barely getting by. All she takes are easy classes, she never studies, and she barely has a 2.0 GPA . She is so popular on campus, college for her is a blast. She’s always invited to all the parties, and lots of times she doesn’t even show up for classes because she’s too hung over.â€
Her wise father asked his daughter, “Why don’t you go to the Dean’s office and ask him to deduct a 1.0 off your 4.0 GPA and give it to your friend who only has a 2.0. That way you will both have a 3.0 GPA and certainly that would be a fair and equal distribution of GPA.â€
The daughter, visibly shocked by her father’s suggestion, angrily fired back, “That wouldn’t be fair! I have worked really hard for my grades! I’ve invested a lot of time, and a lot of hard work! Audrey has done next to nothing toward her degree. She played while I worked my tail off!â€
The father slowly smiled, winked and said gently, “Welcome to the Conservative Partyâ€.
12.02.06
The Rain in Spain falls mainly in the Plain…
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Hehe.
10.28.06
Canadian Soldiers in Aghanistan - Medals for Bravery and Heroism
...in the presence of the enemy
Star of Military Valour
Sergeant Patrick Tower, S.M.V., C.D.
Edmonton, Alberta, and Victoria, British Columbia
Sergeant Tower is recognized for valiant actions taken on August 3, 2006, in the Pashmul region of Afghanistan. Following an enemy strike against an outlying friendly position that resulted in numerous casualties, Sergeant Tower assembled the platoon medic and a third soldier and led them across 150 metres of open terrain, under heavy enemy fire, to render assistance. On learning that the acting platoon commander had perished, Sergeant Tower assumed command and led the successful extraction of the force under continuous small arms and rocket-propelled grenade fire. Sergeant Tower’s courage and selfless devotion to duty contributed directly to the survival of the remaining platoon members.
Medal of Military Valour
Sergeant Michael Thomas Victor Denine, M.M.V., C.D.
Edmonton, Alberta
Sergeant Denine deployed with 8 Platoon, C Company, 1 PPCLI during Operation ARCHER in Afghanistan. On May 17, 2006, while sustaining concentrated rocket-propelled grenade, machine gun and small arms fire, the main cannon and the machine gun on his light armoured vehicle malfunctioned. Under intense enemy fire, he recognized the immediate need to suppress the enemy fire and exited the air sentry hatch to man the pintle-mounted machine gun. Completely exposed to enemy fire, he laid down a high volume of suppressive fire, forcing the enemy to withdraw. Sergeant Denine’s valiant action ensured mission success and likely saved the lives of his crew.
Medal of Military Valour
Master Corporal Collin Ryan Fitzgerald, M.M.V.
Shilo, Manitoba, and Morrisburg, Ontario
Master Corporal Fitzgerald deployed with 5 Platoon, B Company, 1 PPCLI Battle Group in Afghanistan. He is recognized for outstanding selfless and valiant actions carried out on May 24, 2006, during an ongoing enemy ambush involving intense, accurate enemy fire. Master Corporal Fitzgerald repeatedly exposed himself to enemy fire by entering and re-entering a burning platoon vehicle and successfully driving it off the roadway, permitting the remaining vehicles trapped in the enemy zone to break free. Master Corporal Fitzgerald’s courageous and completely selfless actions were instrumental to his platoon’s successful egress and undoubtedly contributed to saving the lives of his fellow platoon members.
Medal of Military Valour
Private Jason Lamont, M.M.V.
Edmonton, Alberta, and Greenwood, Nova Scotia
Private Lamont deployed with the Health Support Services Company, 1 PPCLI Battle Group during Operation ARCHER. On July 13, 2006, an element of the reconnaissance platoon came under heavy enemy fire from a compound located in Helmand Province, Afghanistan, and was isolated from the rest of the platoon. During the firefight, another soldier was shot while attempting to withdraw back to the firing line and was unable to continue. Without regard for his personal safety, Private Lamont, under concentrated enemy fire and with no organized suppression by friendly forces, sprinted through open terrain to administer first aid. Private Lamont’s actions demonstrated tremendous courage, selflessness and devotion to duty.
10.26.06
Beccy Cole, the “Poster Girl”
Diggers are Australian soldiers, and Beccy’s shaken hands with them. She’s mighty proud of that, and so she should be.
Via Blackfive
09.04.06
The Crocodile Hunter is Dead
And not by a crocodile, either.
On September 4, 2006, shortly after 11:00 a.m. local time, Steve Irwin was killed in a marine accident while filming an underwater documentary in the Batt Reef off the Low Isles near Port Douglas, north of Cairns, Queensland, Australia. It is believed that a stingray barb penetrated his heart, causing a fatal wound, though this has yet to be confirmed by Australian officials. This is being reported all over the MSM - BBC, CNN, ABC and so on, so it’s very likely not a hoax. His wife, Terri has been reported to be in the mountains in Africa, or some such place, and not yet aware of this. That might explain why Aussie officials aren’t confirming the reports yet (until his next-of-kin is notified, that is).
Well, damn! Just damn.
More on Irwin and his life here.
Stingray. More here.
08.02.06
Hello PSP Users!
My son, Lucas, just got a Sony PSP as his graduation present. This post is for him. Sometime soon, I’ll see about making a PSP/PDA friendly version of cerdipity. In the meantime PSP friendly links: Instapundit and Google.
07.25.06
Kofi Annan is an Idiot
He thinks that Israel deliberately bombed a UN outpost. Whether he thinks that Israel intended to deliberately kill 4 UN Peacekeepers when they bombed the outpost, he hasn’t said yet.
“I am shocked and deeply distressed by the apparently deliberate targeting by Israeli Defence Forces,” Annan said in an unusually strong statement. “The co-ordinated artillery and aerial attack on a long established and clearly marked UN post … occurred despite personal assurances given to me by (Israeli) Prime Minister Ehud Olmert that UN positions would be spared Israeli fire.”
Get rid of this clown. Now.
07.24.06
Why a Ceasefire is not in the cards in Hezbollaland anytime really soon
Jeff Harrell reveals all.
Now, I don’t have a crystal ball. But the way things are evolving right now, it seems that Israel is likely to ignore any calls for a ceasefire until such point that they feel that the Party of God in Lebanon are diminished (“degraded” in Israeli military-speak) to a point where they aren’t the serious threat that they have been.
Then they are likely to stand there tapping their collective left feet and waiting with their hand out for the Party of God, or Syria, or Iran, or whomever to hand back their soldiers, or their remains. Like my mother used to do when I took too many cookies.
Then we’ll have a ceasefire.
via Daily Pundit
07.18.06
Jihad
Michael Yon tells it like it is:
Although Israel is the center of world attention today, she is only one of many targets for militant Islam. A quick trip around the world to inventory a trail of strife and death shows that Israel is only a face in the targeted-crowd.
Like they say, read the whole thing.
07.11.06
Daily Kos Defends Anne Coulter
Daily Kos: “Coulter is a lot of things, but it doesn’t look like plagiarism is one of them.”
Notwithstanding the clumsy grammar, who’da thunk it?
More background here.
07.01.06
Happy 139th Canada!
It all started here, or maybe here. Officially, however, it started here.
Unofficially, but perhaps more significantly, many consider Canada to have come of age during the Battle of Vimy Ridge.
06.08.06
Privileged to be Canadian
Graeme Smith of the Globe & Mail tells why: Afghanistan Audio Diary
05.10.06
Roggio to Afghanistan
Bill Roggio, blogger-journalist, will be embedding with the Canadian Forces in Afghanistan for several weeks, starting next week.
Catch his updates on Counterterrorism Blog, which has also been added to my blogroll on the right side of my home page.
04.24.06
In All Our Son’s Command
Four Canadian soldiers were killed this past weekend in Afghanistan. This is the largest single loss of Canadian troops due to combat since the Korean War.
In World War One (“The Great War”, or “The War To End All Wars”) Canadian troops fought, and won, the bloody battle of Vimy Ridge, widely seen by historians inside Canada and around the world as a defining moment for a young country; the emergence of Canada as nation to be reckoned with in the wider world of international states affairs, after her birth in 1867, a mere 50 years earlier.
By the time of World War Two, Canada was one of the Big Five allies that prosecuted that war to its conclusion – US, USSR, UK, Canada, and Australia. Our Army, Air Force, and Navy were each among the top in the world in size and capability. There were five beaches at Normandy on D-Day – Utah and Omaha for the US forces, Gold and Sword for the British Forces, and Juno Beach for the Canadian Forces.
This practice of standing up and being counted, and sticking up for the little guy, continued as a national policy (and a source of national pride) until the Pearson government took over in the mid-60’s. That’s right, that’s the government of the same genius that won the Nobel Peace prize for his efforts in creating the United Nations after World War Two. And we all know how well that august body has turned out, don’t we? That was the beginning of the erosion, and the undoing of a hundred years effort and sacrifice by Canadians around the world.
By 2003, Canada’s standing had been eroded to practical insignificance on the world stage.
When Saddam Hussein was ousted in 2003, The US Forces, the British Forces, and the Australian Forces were there – just as they were in both world wars, Korea, and Afghanistan. But this time, Canadian Forces were not. In fact, for a short time, Canadian Forces members were being ordered to NOT wear their uniforms when not on base! Orders that originated with their civilian political masters. How low had we sunk as a nation?
Afghanistan is Canada’s 21st century version of Vimy Ridge. Those men that have died there since 2001 are not just dying in the cause of freedom from oppression, tyranny, and terrorism. They are also dying while actively reshaping our nation, and pulling Canada back from the brink of total irrelevance.
So we owe these troops, and their families, double thanks. You are making us proud to be Canadian, proud to stand tall under the Canadian flag. Thank you for your sacrifice and hard work for people all over the world, and thank you for your sacrifice and hard work for Canada and Canadians.
To keep up to date on the activities of our Canadian Heroes, go here, and bookmark the site.
