Re: The temperature was 51 C. in the shade Tuesday, Taliban insurgents as relentless as Afghanistan's summer heat

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From: Brian Daily
Date: Sat, 08 Jul 2006 00:18

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On Sat, 08 Jul 2006 00:12:50 GMT, "Arved Sandstrom" <asandstrom@accesswave.ca>
wrote:

>> BUT MORE IMPORTANT is the soft support in Canada for the Canadian action 
>> in
>> Afghanistan. Harper can't survive many more deaths. They will not take 
>> that kind
>> of political risk to save money at this point. So vehicles are being 
>> abandoned
>> by the MILLION$ right now.
>
>Ask your typical Canadian how many soldiers have died in Afghanistan, and in 
>general few respondees will have a clue. The lady FO getting her head 
>shredded was a bit of a media blip, as was the US fighter bombing a Canadian 
>patrol, but otherwise the average citizen wouldn't know if we have lost 5, 
>10, 50 or 500 people.

Only if you consider conservative right wing loons to be the 'average' citizens.
They don't care. The rest of us (voters) aren't that stupid, naive or heartless.

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From: Brian Daily <daily.brian@gmail.com.nomaps>
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Subject: Re: The temperature was 51 C. in the shade Tuesday,  Taliban insurgents as relentless as Afghanistan's summer heat
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