Talking to a military man recently, he said that many of these boys would be alive today if we were flying the Chretien-canceled helicopters.  Instead, we are driving these jeeps over tank mines, some of them doubled up.  In other words, we don’t have a chance.

A roadside bomb blast killed another Canadian soldier Saturday in southern Afghanistan, the latest death in what has become a bloody winter for the troops here.

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