Actually, I meant the Canadian Army, which according to the official DND
website, has 19,500 soldiers.  By the time you work out the actual number of
combat ready soldiers, the number drops below the Toronto police force.

This is not to impugn the courage and professionalism of the individual
Canadian soldier, but the Deranged Dominion certainly does not provide an
example on how to build and maintain a modern military.

Denys

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Date:    Wed, 8 Nov 2006 16:56:15 -0600
From:    Denys Beauchemin <[log in to unmask]>
Subject: Re: OT:kerry

> John Lee asked:  This sounds pollitically motivated.  Does the Canadian
> military do it better?  Differently?  How so?


> To which I respond: No.  You should realize the Canadian Armed Forces is
> smaller than the police force of the City of Toronto.

The uniformed strength of the Metropolitan Toronto Police Department is
5260 with approximately 400 additional uniformed reserve officers (2006).
The uniformed strength of the Canadian Forces is 62,500 with an additional
~14,000 uniformed reserves (2006).  No doubt you obtained your information
regarding Canada's military from the same sources that provided the
current U.S. administration with proof of WMD in Iraq and predicted that
the Iraqi people would welcome invading U.S. troops with flowers.

By the way, it may come as a surprise to some but war is quintessentially
political in nature.  It is therefore absolutely impossible to discuss war
in apolitical terms. The delusion that war somehow can be considered
outside of its political context lies at the root of many of the world's
problems with state organized violence.


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