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Originally Posted by Cimarron29414
In the 16 or so days of this, France has managed to send 16 whole attack aircraft over to Libya. Britian has managed 8. Canada - six whole attack aircraft. As usual, the pussies in Europe and Canada raise their hands to save the downtrodden, but they can't seem to raise their rifles or their wallets. "That's Yank work, dontcha know." No doubt, this will somehow be all our fault.
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With all due respect, those six fighters consist of nearly 8% of Canada's air attack fleet of CF-18s. If those Yanks sent in 8% of their fleet, it would be nearly 500 aircraft.
Forgive us if less than 2% of our GDP goes towards shiny machines of destruction. We ain't Yanks, after all. Our military budget is $21.8 billion.
And it's not that we don't have other commitments, like in Afghanistan.
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Last edited by Baraka_Guru; 04-05-2011 at 02:50 PM..
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