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Originally Posted by Kevsh
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I may be wrong, but if that's an Browning M-2 .50cal, then we have at least 2. I've seen em up close and personal. Coulda been loaners from the bits tho.
As for this rediculous money sink about trying to shoot down, in essence, big bullets with other big bullets Canada is absolutely right in not signing on. The only reason the US comes to us for any of that tripe is because we lend an air of respectability to their plans. King George didn't get the rubber stamp or the ducats from us on this one, sucks to be him. If his plan is so shit hot, let him sell it to the french, germans, japanese and whoever else on its own merits, and good fucking luck.
What amuses me greatly is how all the nattering nabobs piss and moan and talk about 'loss of work for canadian contractors'. Bullshit. Any canadian contracting that would have been done would have a) likely been done by a canadian subsidary of kellogg, brown + root and b) would have been paid for by canadian taxpayer money. We have enough problems with our government pissing away hard earned cash without having them piss it away on an expensive PR stunt and give it to one of the multinationals that'll soon have ALL our asses in their slings.
