I heard a joke on the radio the other day that I thought was pretty funny.

Since it's not age appropriate for anyone at home, I thought I would share it with you.

Part of the patrol route for this officer is driving by a popular 'make-out' hill.
On patrol one night, just after 11:30pm, he spots 7 cars, 6 of them with foggy windows and shaking gently. He approaches the one car that isn't moving and foggy and gets out of his patrol car. There are two people in the car, a guy in the front seat, reading a book and a girl in the back seat doing some knitting.

He taps on the window and the guy rolls it down. The officer says "What are you doing up here". The guy replies that he is reading and his girlfriend is knitting.
The officer asks the guy how old he is. "25 Sir", replied the guy. "And what about the young lady in the back seat, how old is she". The guy looks at his watch and says "well, she's 18 in about 15 minutes"

Not crazy about the age difference in the joke, but you get the drift.
Now, it's possible if this young man were say 20, he may be enticed by the great new "Canadian Armed Forces" commercials that are on TV these days.
Search and rescue, protecting freedoms, peacekeeping, they have it all. Oh, what a glorious life it must be.

All the soldiers in the ads are clean, seemingly well armed and well protected. They are even seen helping a middle-eastern women into a shelter.
Oh how great it must be to serve for the defense of your country.

OOPS. When were we last attacked at our borders? Let's see, no, that was the middle east. Going back, no, that was in Vietnam, Korea. WWII was more over in Europe, I did hear some blurb about something happening in the US, but I think it was one of those remote states, like Hawaii. Hmm, WWI? Maybe. You know what, I am not sure. But I don't think it was after WWI. (which ironically, they never called WWI until they found a better more deadly sequel)

The Canadian Armed forces commercial lack a few important details. No suicide bombers were shown blowing up check points. No engineers that were put into service as land mine checkers. There was ABSOLUTELY no mention of possibly being hit by friendly fire, or say, a friendly missile.

We didn't even see any evidence that you get to beat, rape and even murder people that look like they could do you harm, if the circumstances were right.

They didn't mention the nice vinyl body bag that you could be carried home in, no pictures of your newly widowed wife either.



While I am anti-war, I understand we should have an armed forces for DEFENSE of our country. The worst attacks on Canada come from within, with weapons supplied a bit south of here.

But everything the Canadian Military is engaged in is offensive. Not even our offense, someone else's.

But, we are fighting overseas, so we don't have to fight here, right?
Well, no, we are fighting overseas because of (stop me if you have heard this) US Foreign policy.

Now, the policy seems to be summed up like this. We will do what we want, when we want to and no one can stop us.

The great catalyst, 9/11, allowed some moron to (somehow) look good and stay in power for 6 years, doing absolutely nothing for his country.
September 11th was not an action against freedom, democracy or the US, it was a reaction to American Foreign Policy. A reaction to the flow of weapons to these people to fight someone else's battle, then the subsequent stabbing in the back of the US government and then, ironic as it may seem, the people they supplied with weapons get angry.

So, we try to recruit here.
And, instead of filling our ships with fuel to actually move, supply troops with training and equipment to safe guard them, so they can safeguard us (that's us, not U.S.), they put money into advertising so they can attract a new group of suckers, er, soldiers.

You fight for freedom, but once you sign on the dotted line, you have lost your freedom. If you don't agree with your mission, too bad. You can't choose not to fight. If you aren't trained or equipped for certain duty, too bad.



"Join the Canadian Armed Forces" a message from the Government of Canada, funeral homes everywhere and BodyBag Inc, the official supplier to the Canadian Armed Forces.