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Precisely!  So if the courts are assuming guilt, and its only the jury that assumes innocence....bah, getting off topic here. In any case, I was pleased at least that the Iraqi courts did find him guilty.  When that judge some time ago said he 'wasn't a dictator' I was beginning to worry.

Point well taken.  I suppose for me, after having gone to school to learn criminal law and all that, I've become rather cynical of the legal process (you begin to realize more and more that at least in our system, it heavily favors the guilty).  As a personal point of contention, I don't like...

Huh, well if there's any reason why I chose to give up a career as a cop to join the military, it's the legal system.  They should've just put a bullet in the guy's head the moment they found him.  What's the point of arresting a man who you KNOW committed atrocities, just to have him and a...

Sum up?  I don't understand.  You want me to summarize something?  I don't get it. But I do think though that if someone in uniform was saying something like that, it would certainly be grounds for some kind of disciplinary action.  I certainly wouldn't want to be the one caught saying...

For me, my attitude toward other people changed when I enlisted.  Though I'm still untrained, just sworn-in, I still feel a pride that I've never experienced before.  And maybe this is the wrong attitude to have, but when I look at other people, I sort of feel like 'Well, what the hell are you...

Wow!  That's ridiculous.  I don't know that much about military law, but sounds to me that's treading VERY close to desertion.

I think the best term to describe what Canada does now is or at least attempts to do is 'Stabilization'.  I think peacemaking is a bit of a misnomer, because there's no way there's going to be lasting peace in that country- you'd have to literally kill everyone.  The most we can hope for is to...

I think some Quebecois are still pissed off about the whole Trudeau 'Sendin' in the tanks' thing back in 1970 in response to the Front de liberation du Quebec.  Ah well, some people like to hold grudges. I have a bunch of Quebecois friends, mostly from Quebec City, and they're all really happy...

I think the new CF recruiting ads are pretty sharp.  I was not really a big fan of the old ones, with the kind of cheesy music and everything, but the new ones seem pretty visceral (not a lot of flash, but a lot of substance).  The American Army/Navy/Airforce ads I find are just too flashy- made...