Australia finding more ways to avoid war...

Post by **weemadando** » 2003-03-02 05:49pm

Unions within Australia have threatend to stop supplying the Australian Defence Force. This "embargo" of sorts is an attempt to get the government to back down and pull Australian forces out of the potential war.

I'm trying to find an online piece about it.

Oh, and it looks like we have a double dissolution of parliament coming up.
http://www.abc.net.au/news/australia/20 ... 5258_1.htm

Post by **Sea Skimmer** » 2003-03-02 06:00pm

Guess they don't know what warstocks are.

MKSheppard · Post by **MKSheppard** » 2003-03-02 06:02pm

Sea Skimmer wrote:Guess they don't know what warstocks are.

Lets just have these fuckers SHOT. Anyone who does to the troops
at the sharp end should be SHOT.

Post by **Sea Skimmer** » 2003-03-02 06:04pm

MKSheppard wrote:
Sea Skimmer wrote:Guess they don't know what warstocks are.
Lets just have these fuckers SHOT. Anyone who does to the troops
at the sharp end should be SHOT.

Well, the classic way to deal with strikers in wartime is to draft them into the army. I prefer hanging over shooting. The bullet is better used to shoot the enemy.

Post by **Darth Wong** » 2003-03-02 06:05pm

The Canadian government has found a simple way of avoiding wartime duty in Iraq: poverty. We don't have enough manpower or equipment to fulfill our obligations in Afghanistan and contribute in Iraq as well.

Mind you, the fucking Prime Minister of our country is the same jack-ass idiot who cancelled a multi-billion dollar deal for new Navy helicopters within hours of taking office, so our Navy is stuck with fucking 40 year old POS choppers with an abysmal safety record and >30 hours of maintenance for every hour of flying time. And he paid a $500 million cancellation charge for terminating the contract , so we pissed away half a billion dollars for nothing. Now he refuses to upgrade anything because he doesn't want to admit he made a mistake by axing the previous government's attempt to rectify our longstanding military underspending.

Post by **Sea Skimmer** » 2003-03-02 06:13pm

The CDF is just awful, one days hard fighting could expend its ammunition stocks. A Seaking crashed a few days ago on the Iroquois from engine failure.

It sounds like the Victories are going to be given up once the lease expires, even though the deal is the CDF would buy them for one pound each at the end. Not every day you get about two billion dollars worth of modern SSK's for 4 pounds.

Temjin · Post by **Temjin** » 2003-03-02 06:20pm

Darth Wong wrote:The Canadian government has found a simple way of avoiding wartime duty in Iraq: poverty. We don't have enough manpower or equipment to fulfill our obligations in Afghanistan and contribute in Iraq as well.

Mind you, the fucking Prime Minister of our country is the same jack-ass idiot who cancelled a multi-billion dollar deal for new Navy helicopters within hours of taking office, so our Navy is stuck with fucking 40 year old POS choppers with an abysmal safety record and >30 hours of maintenance for every hour of flying time. And he paid a $500 million cancellation charge for terminating the contract , so we pissed away half a billion dollars for nothing. Now he refuses to upgrade anything because he doesn't want to admit he made a mistake by axing the previous government's attempt to rectify our longstanding military underspending.

Oh, and let's not forget about how a few months ago he spent millions replacing the goverment planes when one had to make a emergency landing with him on it.

Admiral Valdemar · Post by **Admiral Valdemar** » 2003-03-02 06:20pm

Darth Wong wrote:The Canadian government has found a simple way of avoiding wartime duty in Iraq: poverty. We don't have enough manpower or equipment to fulfill our obligations in Afghanistan and contribute in Iraq as well.

Mind you, the fucking Prime Minister of our country is the same jack-ass idiot who cancelled a multi-billion dollar deal for new Navy helicopters within hours of taking office, so our Navy is stuck with fucking 40 year old POS choppers with an abysmal safety record and >30 hours of maintenance for every hour of flying time. And he paid a $500 million cancellation charge for terminating the contract , so we pissed away half a billion dollars for nothing. Now he refuses to upgrade anything because he doesn't want to admit he made a mistake by axing the previous government's attempt to rectify our longstanding military underspending.

Don't they have the reputation of the world's most tightly packed formation of flying pieces of engineering?

Post by **weemadando** » 2003-03-02 06:25pm

MKSheppard wrote:
Sea Skimmer wrote:Guess they don't know what warstocks are.
Lets just have these fuckers SHOT. Anyone who does to the troops
at the sharp end should be SHOT.

I couldn't agree more. I don't support an un-sanctioned war, but by god I'll support our troops.

Oh, and Skimmer - warstocks? This is the Australian military we're talking about.