“I was on the beach in the Dominican Republic and I had a little break and I heard about that and —- can I say without everyone beating up on me across canada — I was on my third rum-and-coke and I really didn’t give a damn.” – General Rick Hillier
“I was on the beach in the Dominican Republic and I had a little break and I heard about that and —- can I say without everyone beating up on me across canada — I was on my third rum-and-coke and I really didn’t give a damn.” – General Rick Hillier
I want this guy for PM.
That is true Canadian thru and thru. Don’t you just love that man. hahahahahahahaha
That’s my boss!
It must be furstrating to him to have the left more concerned about the taliban than, they are our soldiers. I bet it is all he can do not to spit in taliban Jack and Dion’s faces when he has to meet up with them.
Way to go Sean!, my thoughts exactly before I looked at the comments. You are right!
Love those Newfs.
OT: Think freedom of speech is bad in Canada? Check out Sweden
http://gatesofvienna.blogspot.com/2008/02/swedish-migration-board-bans-freedom-of.html#readfurther
While Dion and Layton stay home and play with thier dolls, real men like Hillier have VOLUNTEERED to kick Taliban ass, occasionally earning some R&R in a tropical locale.
One of the best zingers of the year so far.
Carry on, soldier!
signed, a GREATFUL Canadian.
eskimo: You forgot Harper; he’s a pussy too.
He had me with “Scumbags”.
Wow. Now that’s great response. Shades of General George S. Patton. Gotta love him. He doesn’t suffer fools easily.
He also made a good point about the torture allegations……”if there’s an issue of any kind of impropriety whatsoever, that’s an issue for the afghanistan government.” Absolutely.
Carry on, General.
Yup, just like Patton…taking a holiday from the war, on the beach having two or three drinks…
When faced with questions relating to torture, Hillier replies with “I was on my third rum-and-coke and I really didn’t give a damn.” The man has a drinking problem if allegations of torture and the Canadian military don’t faze him, he needs a new job.
When can we kick Michaelle Jean’s butt out of the Governor General’s Chair and swear this guy in?
It’s great for a guy to relax and have a few drinks. And Hillier does it on his vacation, unlike former minister of defence mccallum, that sleazy little drunken liberal puke who did it on the job, by his own admission. At least the little troll sobered up. What a sacrifice!
That ethical difference would likely escape libforlife types who are admire the behaviour of sleazy pukes.
Libforlife: Thanks for the afternoon chuckle.
“he needs a new job.”
Next, you’ll tell me that Ontario is going to take over the provision of liquor stores from private store owners.
Next, we’ll be hearing that Hillier is the “Dean Martin” of the Canadian Forces.
I just love the way the mentally retarded lefties like lberia and libforlife validate their existance by sniping at a man with more integrity and ethics in his little finger than they have in their entire bodies. And libforlife, you little scumbag – we don’t torture prisoners. However, retards like you tempt me immensly………
So, LibforLife takes his job with him on holiday?! His/her boss must be so proud…
(let alone kicking back with a brew or three after work, eh?)
Putz.
Umm..Patton actually had many breaks from the battle during his campaigns in WW2..one was to the beautiful Riviera..ever heard of the term R & R?
It’s a military term BTW.
..oh..and hell..a century ago we rationed rum to the fighting men!..in the field and on the ships!
No coke for mix, though, just cut with rain water..;^)
There is another way to deal with prisoners and “libforlife” just described it and encouraged it.KILL ‘EM!
You got to get a kick out of the cowardly left, snipping like puppies at the conservatives ankels. They are not fit to lick Hiller’s boots. Feel sorry for them, afterall their speech police are getting their asses kicked to the curb. No more Warman/Warren’s getting their backs scratched for all the dirty sneaky work they do. Everyone is laughing that the cbc got caught giving the liberals a hummer, and therefore killed thier big squinty-eyed Schreiber inquiry. All that thing brought about is more corruption within the liberal party. It is not done yet, and I can’t wait to see the next liberal lose his political career over it.
libforlife said:
“When faced with questions relating to torture, Hillier replies with “I was on my third rum-and-coke and I really didn’t give a damn.” The man has a drinking problem if allegations of torture and the Canadian military don’t faze him, he needs a new job.”
Shows a typical lib’s inability to follow a discussion. Hillier’s comment was in response to Buckler’s statement that “the military did not inform the Tory government of the change in policy”
Hillier was not commenting on prisoner abuse!!! Simply read the information in the link provided. libforlife demonstrates why it is sooooo easy for Dion and co. to baffle their supporters and keep them from undertaking any independent thought (I know, that assumes they are capable of independent thought, might be a bit of a stretch)
Typical liberal sneaky move. They eat their own, as we are witnessing, with Keith Martin. Anyone steps out of line and shows they are not stupid in the liberal party, they jump on them like cannibals.
It is driving the liberals over the edge, that men and women of integrity are taking over. All those years of lying and corruption where they showed such contempt for Canadians is coming back to haunt them now.
dwo, others, what you’re missing here is that LibforLife has given you a preview of the Media response over the next few days. It doesn’t matter whether LFL has the reading comprehension of a retarded gerbil, or is simply, blatantly, flat-out lying.
My prediction:
Tomorrow morning LFL’s interpretation will be discussed, at length, on the CBC’s morning shows and be the subject of at least one editorial, probably in Toronto. By tomorrow night it will be the only surviving “narrative”. By Friday, there will be calls in Parliament for Hillier’s ouster on the grounds of callous insensitivity to the torture issue, based on this comment.
Watch and see. I’ll check back on Friday; maybe Kate will comment.
Regards,
Ric
I’d love to see S. Dion after three rums. Can you imangine?
Hey…isn’t Hillier a Liberal appointee?
dwo, do I really have to explain it to you? I know you are a Harper supporter and all, but really, even one of those should have the capacity to remember the background of this story was the Canadian military and torture. Maybe if Hillier had put down the booze long enough to sober up, he would have realized that Harpie and his band of evil cons was laying the complete blame on the Canadian military and keeping the government uniformed. Any general worth his salt, like Patton who some have this illusion running our forces, would have been publicly furious and come out swinging for insulting his department over this. They would have threatened to resign if the accusers had not withdrawn the statement, but not Hillier. Apparently the booze had dulled General Patton’s senses and he slept through it all.
Hillier is probably hoping to stay on as CDS, thus there will be no bad feelings shown in public.
Libforlife
The man was answering a direct question. He gave a direct and honest answer to the question, putting the lie to speculative media reports.
Being a Libforlife, I’m sure honesty is something you’re not used to. All that spinning has made you dizzy.
“..oh..and hell..a century ago we rationed rum to the fighting men!..in the field and on the ships!
No coke for mix, though, just cut with rain water..;^)”
Heh, a century ago, try just over 3 decades ago. The Canadian navy actually preserved that old Royal Navy “rum ration” tradition longer than the Brits did, a tiny tidbit of history I always found interesting.
LibforLife is a troll — probably someone’s sockpuppet pseudonym trolling for kicks.
Ignore him/her/it.
lib & ib are quite the duo. The liberal talking points re Hillier proved false so now change it to what Hillier ‘should’ have felt/done. Since he didn’t do what the lib talking points said he should Hillier must be a drinker. Keep it up lib & ib we could all use a little laughter now and again.
Hey, I’ll splice the main brace with Hillier any day.
You people who fantasize about killing really think your going to get into heaven?
Who would jesus bomb?
It wasnt me that advocated killing prisoners,it was libforlife.Read his post.Thats the way all socialist-communist regimes do it.Don’t you remember the arena trials in Cuba and the resulting executions? There were no prisoners left to torture,they were all dead.
Morningstar: “Who would jesus bomb?”
Hopefully you first f*ckface. Of course, I’m not a Christian, and don’t really care. As to entry to heaven, I will leave that in the hands of the big guy, confident that I spent far more of my life helping people than you ever did or will. As for Hillier, since all Newfs go to heaven, he’s set.
libforlife writes:”if Hillier had put down the booze long enough to sober up…” hey lib: you judgemental jerk! How dare you Question the method used by those who have served on the frontlines & have to live with their demons. Typical liberal behaviour, you & those like you, along with your incompetent leader cause a situation then spin it to be someone else’s problem. General: I’d be honoured to stand you to a drink, anywhere, any mess.
Nobody likes the “who would jesus bomb”question.
Because the answer is of course nobody.
This question reveals the sickness in peoples minds who advocate violence and inhumane treatment of other people.Their forced to see how messed up they are,because of a simple question with a simple answer.
Goodluck to you holdfast i hope you get better.
Do you ever get sick of checking for boogeymen under your bed?
Actually, some days, reading the crap that the leftie retards put out, I would advocate violence and inhumane treatment of them. But since I’m a reasonable man, like most SDA posters, I keep my impulses to myself. Would that leftie icons like Che Guevara had done the same. What was his murder count again?
Hey Bob – “How dare you Question the method used by those who have served on the frontlines & have to live with their demons.”
What frontlines did Hillier ever serve on and what demons do you believe he has? Is it the lineup to the mess bar and the demons in his bottle of rum maybe?
Libforlife, as a troll, you’re singularly stupid and unimaginative. Give it up. If ever your IQ goes into the double digits, let us know.
Rick Hillier finally sucessfully enlisted at the age of 17, immediatley after high-school graduation, and then went on to study Sciences at Memorial University in St. John’s Newfoundland.
Upon graduation, his was admitted to the Officer core of the Royal Canadian Dragoons, and eventually went on to command the Dragoons’ 120 tank strong comittment in Germany during the 80’s. From there on, General Hillier’s accomplishments are quite notable;
1997, Hillier commanded the two-brigade comittment to the Red River floodings
1998, Hillier commanded the CF comittment to the Quebec Ice Storm
2004, Hillier commanded 6000 allied soldiers in the International Security Assistance Force in Afganistan. (the largest multi-national force led by a Canadian since the 1956 Suez Canal Crisis)
2005 Hillier promoted to Chief of Defence Staff (CDS), the highest position in the Canadian Forces
2005 Hillier promoted to Chief of Defence Staff (CDS), the highest position in the Canadian Forces
by the missing-in-action former PM Paul Martin.
thanks for the info iberia