A double Rant… Bush and the UN

This was spurred by the JaneMs’ comments in the comments of the last post. My response ended up being a rather involved rant… so, why not just post it so that everyone sees it! Jane said: Chris, do you think that the UN gets “signals”? The UN seems oblivious even to being hit between the …

Canada to send 150 to Darfur

News sources are reporting that Canada intends to send 150 military personnel to help the AU in a peacekeeping mission in Sudan. They will also be lending some old equipment for the African troops to use (god knows we have plenty of that lying around). 150 doesn’t seem like much… but at least it’s something. …

Canada investigates sending Troops to Darfur

Looks like they could be there by September. The head of Canada’s military returned recently from meeting with leaders of the African Union peacekeeping force that Canadian units would support. Well it’s about time there was some action on this. Too bad it seems as though Canada is going in spite of rather than in …