I was reading the news online today and ran into a pretty neat coincidence. Some guy named Bob Rae is upset that the Conservative Party of Canada is not doing enough about the ongoing crises in Libya. Bob is saying that we should be doing more and doing it right now. His suggestion, and it’s a good one, is to enact a no-fly zone over the embattled country to protect the people risking their lives to overthrow the regime there. Bob also thinks Canada should send its air force to Libya to take part in the battle.
Now seriously, how odd is it that someone with the same name as the Deputy Leader of the Liberal Party who has gone on record agreeing to immediately cancel the CF-35 Lightning II, the replacement for Canada’s aging CF-18 Hornets, if his party (shudder) comes to power would be suggesting that?
The Member of Parliament for Toronto Centre HAS to be concerned that someone will mistakenly think that it was him making these suggestions. Since the Liberal’s biggest (only?) arguments against the CF-35 acquisition are ‘What do we need it for?’ and ‘Why would we need a stealthy airplane anyway?’ you can bet there is no way ANY Liberal is about to suggest our pilots be sent anywhere near a war zone where they would be up against aircraft and weapons from the same era as theirs! Why, that would make the CF-35 purchase make total sense!
Ah, if only it was the same Bob Rae. Wouldn’t we all have a great laugh over that? Imagine, the Liberals whose only real historical claim to fame has been the repeated rape of the Canadian Armed Forces being publically embarrassed because its Deputy Leader no less, has made his boss look stupid.
Side note to Iggy:
Listen, you and your cohorts do not have the right to suggest our Canadian Forces be sent anywhere to do anything. Your party has not come close to earning that privaledge and if you want to start earning it; start right now by apologizing for even thinking that our men and women in uniform do not deserve the VERY best equipment we can afford.
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