" concessions to adversaries only end in self reproach, and the more strictly they are avoided the greater will be the chance of security."
Thucydides, History of the Peloponnesian War, Book I, 1.34-[3]
Geez, I should give the other side of the story regarding the F-35 purchase, and I will. Fair and full.
CFM-29 Defending Canada Woo-Hoo!!
You really can't get angry at the poor Conservatives. Do you think the guys that sell American Fighters just show up in Ottawa and ask " Do you wanna buy some jets?" Ha ! Thirty or forty years ago that was pretty well the style. But today, before these guys do the pitch they know the key people better than they know themselves! These big contractors use NLP (Neural Language Programming), full board certified shrink consultants .. Mental and psychological profiles are slowly prepared and studied.. You name it and it is employed.
That is why this is happening. The people these contractors have to deal with are not the best and the brightest. It has been generations that we have had such a weak mental bunch. That is why, you the voter, MUST do your home work before you vote! Sure, voting for the radio talk show personality in Ducks Ass Alberta might seem like a great joke and poke in the Easterner's face. But the joke will eventually be on you and the rest of your fellow Canadians! When you send a flawed person to Ottawa there is a host of brilliant, highly enumerated host of parasites and outright life force blood suckers just waiting to feast on their stupidity.
And they are not starving this term are they?
All right, here is the other side of the story in perfect unvarnished truth....
"here we bless your simplicity but do not envy your folly."
Thucydides,History of the Peloponnesian War, 5.105-[3]
Canada as you know is planning to buy 65 F-35 fighters for $ 9.00 billion!! Plus another 5-6 billion to keep them in the air for the first twenty years! The F-35 is being sold as a Stealthy Fighter... A fighter is only Stealthy if you get it back at the end of the day! The F-35 can fly at Mach 1.6. It only has one engine. Its combat radius is less then 600 nm. It is unbuilt and unproven. You gotta be kidd'in me , right? The Oracle of Ottawa is not impressed at all. So I did some shopping on Wikipedia.
F-35, $138 million...
For that kind of money I want kick-ass flat out speed, like mach 2.25 + That is all the Stealth you really need!
I want two goddamn engines, not one! I want something that would give a dead men a hard on. I mean Shit! A fighter plane should look like a goddamn fighter plane! Not a marketer's jerk-off! I want it cheap and easy to work on and the ability to substitute different kinds of engines and avionics (gee that's hard to spell...). Ideally I would like to buy just a whole bunch of airframes and put in my own Canadian made engines...i.e. Restart the Canadian Military Aerospace Industry! I want it battle proven and presently in production.
I think I found something you all might like....
Mig 29; $24 million... Hot Damn!!
For $ 9.0 billion we could buy ...(carry the zero's...) 375(!!!) Mig - 29's. This thing with tweaked Canadian avionics could eat a F-35 any time, day or year!! Now you fighter jockey's out at Cold Lake quit drooling... You know what you would rather fly don't ya?? For every one F-35 we could have 5.75 Mig-29's! Now my buddy Ivan at the Russian Embassy has confided that an order for a mere 65 units could be had out of stock!! And this will include all the special tools; Canadian Tire socket set, 10lb. sledge hammer, crow bar 36", and the finishing tool, one Russian Beech baseball bat. Very easy to work on, lasts forever, battle and climate tested... Many Happy customers..... Peter Mckay SIGN ME UP!!
Watch this carefully.... Did ya see the 150 degree Cobra? Can an F-35 do that? Would you want to be in an F-35 against this (bargain basement) monster? Call your Tory MP and give him a dump off ! It seems that only way some politicians can tell the difference between a dog and fighter aircraft is that they know that eventually the dog will piss on their leg.
