Minister Of Defense Peter MacKay Squanders Taxpayer Dollars In Hard Times

[JohnyCanuck]

As Afghanistan is the graveyard of empires so too is it the graveyard of a hopelessly discredited NATO. So too is it the graveyard of defense ministers who are courtesans to the empire and who buy oversold war toys such as the F 35 that are totally inappropriate to our needs and hideously expensive in a time of economic austerity where economies are sagging and too many thousands are jobless.

Minister MacKay treats the Canadian electorate like local mushroom farmers treat their mushrooms; keep them in the dark and feed them bullshit. Nor is our national media doing Canadians any favors as the Globe and Mail publishes any number of inane reasons for the acquisition of this multi- billion dollar dinosaur that will be still-born seven years from now.

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Minister MacKay is not really so concerned with buying the best possible equipment as he claims but is practicing the Harper government’s usual blind obedience to Washington’s every wish. Where the claim is made these aircraft are necessary to defend our sovereignty their acquisition is actually an abdication of sovereignty as the Minister of Defense can not make a cogent argument for the acquisition of these aircraft when there are clearly other alternatives that should be explored. The very fact that delivery of these aircraft will not begin until 2017 means the government is buying a pig in a poke, and an aircraft totally irrelevant to our needs at that time.

The US is in the process of finalizing an arms sale to Saudi Arabia in the amount of 60 billion dollars, said to be the single largest arms sale ever. This ominous oil-for-arms quid pro quo leaves Saudi Arabia armed out of all proportion to its national needs and America further addicted to its glutinous appetite for oil and compulsive military spending.

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