[ridenrain]

Bizzare. I'd rather Italy help out with the fight in Afghanistan instead of with fancy books.

[EdwardRI]

ridenrain ridenrain:

Bizzare. I'd rather Italy help out with the fight in Afghanistan instead of with fancy books.

What is the goal of the fight in Afghanistan? I ask for clarification.

[ridenrain]

I believe the stated goal is to secure the nation and train the Afghan army and police to take over the job themselves.

[EdwardRI]

What objective measure would indicate when such becomes a reality? I'm unsure of the standards being employed.

[ridenrain]

The reality for Canada is that we stop active combat in 2 years. By act of parliament, the first vote Canadians had on this topic, we will stop combat opperations and step back to a training role in 2011. We will also have RCMP training and NGOs providing aid and inferstructure improvement after that however.

Rather than simply list a number of things that we're doing, I'll simply suggest you look over at the numerous Afghan threads.

[EdwardRI]

Probably a good idea, as to not derail the thread. Thanks for the heads up.

[Bodah]

kenmore kenmore:

Bodah Bodah:

Reading articles is something that wont make a difference with partisan hacks anyways.

You are right, I read the article.

That's all I need to quote from you thanks.

[1Peg]

kenmore kenmore:

Well I hope he leaves it in Ottawa when we kick his sorry ass out! he shouldnt be accepting personal gifts

By The Canadian Press
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MONTREAL - It turns out that Canada received the rarest and most expensive gift doled out by Italian Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi during the G8 Summit.

By virtue of its place in the alphabetical pecking order - because Canada starts with the letter 'C' - Stephen Harper received the very first of 10 serial-numbered, marble-covered art books. A limited edition book dealer in Montreal with exclusive rights to distribute the tome in Canada says it could be worth up to $460,000.

He says copy No. 1 - the one given to Harper - holds at least double the value of the ones received by other G8 leaders at the recent summit in Italy.

But Harper won't get to keep the book.

Because federal politicians can't accept gifts worth more than $1,000, the book becomes government property and will likely be donated or displayed

[OldChum]

Maybe he can sell it to buy us some new parts for our obsolete military equipment

[Lemmy]

E-bay the book and give the money to Swiss bankers. That'll cut into the extra $50B we owe them this year.

[kenmore]

Did anyone look inside the book? coming from Berlusconi, its probably porn

[ridenrain]

.. but classy Italian porn.

[kenmore]

ca.news.yahoo.com/s/reuters/090909/world/international_us_italy_berlusconi

Good thing stevie didn't sleep with him..might have got a gift that keeps on giving
ROME (Reuters) - Reports that 30 women attended 18 parties hosted by Silvio Berlusconi and some were paid to have sex with guests have added to the Italian leader's problems at a time of speculation that his grip on power may be weakening.

The 72-year-old prime minister is already being forced to counter talk that his 15-year-old domination of Italian politics could be brought to an end by the sex scandals besetting him since May, which have angered the powerful Catholic Church.

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