The new Canada

Now Canada can be hated for war-mongering as well.

As the Libyan war enters its third month the Defence Department has quietly ordered more than 1,300 laser-guided smart bombs.

These are for the Libyan campaign.  The one where Canada’s involvement was supposed to be limited to securing air space.

Of course, king steve isn’t telling his precious citizens what we are paying for those bombs.  So let’s go to the U.S., as usual, to see what we will be paying through some fucking tax or other to kill a bunch of brown people -

John Pike, director of the Washington-based defence think-tank GlobalSecurity.org said the smart bomb cost about $100,000 each.

That’s 130 million, over and above what we have already spent on what we have dropped so far.  And that isn’t likely to be the end of the dollar cost in kicking Libya’s ass.  Being all tough on the world stage.  Trying to show big, tough US of A that we can fight, too.

"What kind of war did Canada think it was going to fight? Did they think this war was going to be over quickly or that the Americans would drop all the bombs?" (Said Pike)

Well, Mr. Pike, yes.

Prime Minister Stephen Harper said shortly after the bombing campaign started in mid-March that Libyan leader Moammar Gadhafi's days were numbered. "He simply will not last very long," Harper predicted.

Harper is, after all, a master strategist.  He said we would not have a recession and...ok...he said the Chalk River nuclear plant would not fail and...oh...

Anyway, forget all that.  Winning a majority clears the slate.  Tabula rasa.

So harper can start fresh with a bunch of new wrong calls.

But Gadhafi's forces are holding their own against the largely untrained rebel forces and the ongoing NATO bombing campaign.

As for that promise to engage Canada only in securing air space -

Britain's top military official, Gen. Sir David Richards, recently called for an increase in the bombing campaign, suggesting NATO should start hitting Libyan infrastructure. Shortly after he made that comment, NATO jets bombed a key oil terminal in the country.

Nice.  Maybe all the people working at the terminal were rabid, murdering Gadhafi supporters.