CFB Gagetown Soldier Col. Geoff Parker killed in Afghanistan

Another Canadian dies helping guard and distribute the poppy crop of Afghanistan. Col. Geoff Parker, 42, of CFB Gagetown was killed in on May 18, 2010 in Kabul, the result of a suicide car bomb attack.

WHY? WHY? WHY? CANADIANS NEED TO GET IT INTO THEIR THICK SKULLS that the CIA bought off the Warlords by allowing them to ramp up their poppy production and increase heroin production by 85% since NATO became involved in this conflict.

It was supposed to quell support for the Taliban but when you kill innocent men women and children not even the Warlords can stop dirt poor folk from joining the devil they know to get rid of the devil they do not.

Canada is doing absolutely dick in the grand scheme of helping the Afghans. They don’t want us there. They want to be left alone and we should grant them their wish.

This is the harsh reality of the situation and you will never hear about it on the the news.

So how many more will die for the sake of heroin? How many more times will we have to hear that hack Don Cherry rant and rave about something he does not understand?

A U.S. soldier keeps watch at the site of the suicide bombing. (Ahmad Masood/Reuters)

Get out now. That is the best medicine for our soldiers. And to those who say that if we leave now, all that have died have died in vain. You know something, I agree with you but allowing others to die for nothing, for no cause, is ludicrous.

The mangled remains of a vehicle lie near the location of a suicide attack in Kabul, Afghanistan, on Tuesday. (Ahmad Massoud/Associated Press)

They will all die in vain so some junkie can stick a spike in his vein on the cheap.

By the way…this story caught my eye because the military base that Col. Parker was stationed at was CFB Gagetown, approximately a 10-minute drive from my house.

WAKE THE HELL UP CANADA. CALL YOUR MP AND SAY ENOUGH IS ENOUGH

FROM CBC:

A Canadian colonel was among 18 people killed Tuesday in a suicide car bombing in Kabul.

The Canadian was identified as Col. Geoff Parker, 42, who had been the commanding officer of the 2nd Battalion of the Royal Canadian Regiment, a mechanized unit based at CFB Gagetown, N.B. He is the highest-ranking Canadian Forces member to die in Afghanistan.

“Col. Parker was in Kabul to interact with the various international organizations there in order to prepare his team for their upcoming mission,” said Col. Simon Hetherington, the deputy commander of Task Force Kandahar.

“As a battalion commander, he led his soldiers from the front and with distinction. The post he was preparing to fill was important and of such high profile, he was hand-picked from across the army to do so. A rising star. His potential was undeniable.”

Parker was born and raised in Oakville, Ont. A 1990 graduate of the University of Western Ontario, Parker was married with a son and a daughter, according to his military biography.

Parker is the 145th member of the Canadian Forces to die in Afghanistan since the current mission began in 2002.

Earlier Tuesday., U.S. forces spokesman Col. Wayne Shanks confirmed that five of the dead were American.

“I strongly condemn the suicide attack today in Kabul, which has led to the death of Afghan civilians and ISAF soldiers, and injuries to many more Afghans,” NATO Secretary General Anders Fogh Rasmussen said in a statement.

The Taliban claimed responsibility for the blasts, which happened early Tuesday in a west Kabul neighbourhood near an army recruitment centre and many government buildings.

President Hamid Karzai condemned the attack, saying women and children were among the victims.
12 Afghan civilians killed

At least 12 Afghan civilians were killed and 47 people were injured in the attack, which struck at least five NATO vehicles, a bus and a number of private cars.

“It was morning rush hour, the street packed with traffic, the sidewalk crowded with pedestrians,” journalist Tom Popyk said, noting that American troops moved into the area after the blast to assist with rescue efforts.

“I saw one person lying on the ground with no head,” said Mirza Mohammad, who was on his way to work when the blast happened up the road.

Taliban spokesman Zabiullah Mujahid told The Associated Press in a phone call from an undisclosed location that the bomber was a man from Kabul and his car was packed with 750 kilograms of explosives. The attacker targeted foreign forces, he said.

Tuesday’s bombing is the deadliest attack on NATO forces in the capital since September, when a suicide blast killed six Italian soldiers.

The attack comes as NATO readies a major offensive in the southern province of Kandahar, a major Taliban stronghold.

Read more: http://www.cbc.ca/world/story/2010/05/18/kabul-afghan-blast.html#socialcomments#ixzz0oJ4uHlPd

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