British Forces Deployment - Iraq

[Mark W. Tonner]

Originally posted by Geoff Winnington-Ball "serves to make Canadians burn with embarassment at the state of our armed forces"

Geoff;

Another little 'tid-bit' of embarassment perhaps, in relation to the state of our armed forces, heard earlier this evening that the U.S. 173rd Airborne Brigade has made a 'THOUSAND' man drop into northern Iraq.. I think we'd be lucky to muster maybe '500' active troopers overall, after combing through the whole of the land element of the armed forces.

Yes, a pretty sorry state of affairs indeed.

Link to story (CBC): http://www.cbc.ca/stories/2003/03/26/warwrap_030326

Cheers