Posted on 10/20/2004 7:12:33 PM PDT by Clive
As opposed to submarines needed to patrol tiny oceans? What kind of pinhead writes these headlines anyway? A grad-u-8 of jernalizm skewl?
What do the Canadians need a military for, much less a submarine? Are they afraid of the French?
If Canada were to have a submarine (again) they would probably just station it on Lake Erie.
If you can't do something right, then maybe you shouldn't do it at all.
The Canadians are devloping a new torpedo called the "Molson."
A six shot spread of them will send anyone to the bottom!
They go under the water to put out the fire.
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Even under the polar ice cap, you cheese-eating surrender monkey?
LOL!
If you don't have subs, you may as well scrap the entire navy. Your boats will be absolutely defenseless against a modern sub force.
What is amazing is that Sweden, a country with 6 million people, can develop its OWN subs, and Canada a country with 25 million people, and MUCH more coast to patrol, needs to go to some other country's salvage yard and get a used sub.
You obviously haven't seen their "navy". I have...subs won't help.
I think Canada is worried that those terrible Greenlanders may invade from the north.
So, here's Canada trying to behave like a real country again. What's the saying? Canada's not so much a country as a location?
As part of this on again-off again dispute, the United States thumbed their nose at Canada and sent one of the Coast Guard's Polar Class icebreakers (virtually unarmed) through the Northwest Passage (up and over Canada) without gaining Canadian permission. Canada protested but were incapable of stopping an unarmed vessel from doing whatever it wanted.
A Canadian submarine wouldn't have changed the outcome but it might make them feel less impotent.
I can see where that would be a problem.
I served on the USS Chicago from 89 - 92 when it visited Vancouver as part of an exercise. We were hosted by a Canadian surface ship, a common practice when a ship visits a foreign port.
The Canadian wardroom invited us over for dinner our first night in. They had a wet bar with a cook filing orders for all of us while we ate. I had two beers - couldn't believe we were allowed to do this. Then it came time to leave.
As we exited the quarterdeck, I noticed a chief standing at the brow giving breathalizer tests to people who were leaving the ship. I asked one of the Canadian officers with us what was up. He said they wanted to make sure no one was too drunk to go ashore and cause problems. Meanwhile, right across the pier, where the Chicago was moored, our topside watch was checking returning sailors to ensure no one was too drunk to come aboard.
Amazing difference between the two navies, huh?
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