From Your Pocket To War: Canada's Burgeoning Military Complex

But there's more, much more to be paid to get a good killing spree off the ground. And, this week, Canada's new prime minister, Bush apparatchik, Stephen Harper promised to provide the moolah required to wipe out the Mullahs. Hee hee, it's off to glory we go. Already in the hole for more than a reputed four billion supporting the occupation of Afghanistan, and military geniuses like Canada's Numero Uno at defence, Rick Hillier opining a decade, or more "in-country" commitment required to bring at last freedom and democracy to the too dumb to form a society on their own Afghanis, Stephen's 15 billion dollars would appear just a down payment on the full cost of this misguided adventure in Central Asia. But the costs are to be greater by magnitudes less easily measured than through pure accountancy. http://www.pej.org/html/modules.php?op=modload&name=News&file=article&sid=4915&mode=thread&order=0&thold=0

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