As Sun Tzu said (or was it Confucius): When you lie with Con's you end up with bites (sound bites).

Submitted: 11:03am (PDT), re-submitted: 3:41pm (PDT) - we'll see what happens
F-35s don't meet military's requirements, documents show, Timing of statement of operational requirements for plane also questioned, CBC News, Mar 26, 2012http://www.cbc.ca/news/politics/story/2012/03/26/pol-f35s-fighter-jets.html

There are a few things that you can betcha are at play here.

The good people of Canada are not being told true reason for Harper, MacKay and the Con's purchasing the F-35's.

Harper simply doesn't care what anybody says he's going to purchase them.

And

You simply can't trust a word Peter MacKay says.

(When you look at this

Pete-pic from: http://www.torontosun.com/2012/03/22/mackay-boosts-f-35-hopes

you can almost see Peter MacKay morphing into Richard Nixon and saying

"I am not a liar")

If anyone has any doubts about the above, show us a clear statement of our military's intentions that the F-35 would be the only plane that meets those requirements, especially considering that it is a strike force jet (as opposed to a sovereignty protecting type of plan). The F-35 is a plane of war, plain and simple.

Canadians are not allowed to know what the military's intentions are that they would require the best plane available, with the "eye-watering technology".

But, isn't the whole purposes of the military to serve the people of Canada.

If the military set their own agenda, doesn't that make use a military dictatorship and not a Democracy

Also, Christopher Alexander is grooming himself for prime ministerial duties down the road. He may want to reconsider whom he aligns with and what issues he pushes on.

Chris wanted to defend Harper and MacKay but when he said "the F-35 does meet the requirements" that very plainly flew in the face of the document Solomon referred and for everyone to see not just at the time but for posterity.

Lloyd MacILquham cicblog.com/comments.html