General Rick Hillier has publicly admonished the Liberals for the anti-soldier attack ads promoting a Conservative government would put soldiers in our cities. The head honcho of our military forces was probably staying non partisan before the election, but barely a week after election day and he has the Libs going through Basic Training drills.<\/p>\n
| Hillier pointed out that there are already soldiers living and working in every Canadian city prepared to help in the event of a crisis, emergency or natural disaster.<\/p>\n Hillier also criticized the Grits for failing to back up their promise to the military to hire 8,000 new soldiers, noting there were only a few hundred recruits since Martin first announced an initiative to swell the military’s ranks in 2004 because the money to pay for them was slow to flow.<\/p>\n He lavished praise on the Conservative defence election platform, which pledged to boost the military’s ranks by 13,000 soldiers.<\/font><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/table>\n It would have been nice to have a statement like this made before the election, but I understand General Hillier’s reservation in waiting until after the public has spoken. I’m just glad he said it. This is something to remember for the next election.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" General Rick Hillier has publicly admonished the Liberals for the anti-soldier attack ads promoting a Conservative government would put soldiers in our cities. The head honcho of our military forces was probably staying non partisan before the election, but barely a week after election day and he has the Libs going through Basic Training drills. […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_coblocks_attr":"","_coblocks_dimensions":"","_coblocks_responsive_height":"","_coblocks_accordion_ie_support":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[52],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-86","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-politics-federal"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/officiallyscrewed.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/86","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/officiallyscrewed.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/officiallyscrewed.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/officiallyscrewed.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/officiallyscrewed.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=86"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/officiallyscrewed.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/86\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/officiallyscrewed.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=86"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/officiallyscrewed.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=86"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/officiallyscrewed.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=86"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}} |