Hurl to the max

I've just lost any respect for puffed-up, pseudo-hard-boiled Don Martin of CanWest News. His lead paragraph today:

Many Canadian soldiers were pledging a return to Afghanistan even before they left the last lethal rotation, tempted as much by combat pay premiums of about $3,000 a month as by the mission's merits...

And this climate change nonsense:

Defence Minister Peter Mac-Kay did a grin-and-go tour of our chicken-clucking allies in Europe, trying to scare up combat replacements for our troops this week from among those who deploy their soldiers for sunbathing duty in northern regions...

Not much sunbathing in Mazar (where the Germans mostly are) from, say, December through February.

What a mockery of journalism. And how Canadian.