Here’s a front page story over at the National Post (a Canwest paper) today:
They sent the troops there (thank God they didn’t wuss-out on THAT in addition to Iraq), and now will not vote non-confidence in the Conservative government in the new year along with the French—by which I mean the Bloc Quebecois socialist pacifists.
The Liberals are the most benevolent party EVER.
The fact that this is a front page story is incredible. The fact that this is even a story is incredible.
My headline would have been:
“Duh.”
or
“Ummm….yeah!”
Yet Liberal leader Stephane (“I’m a French citizen! Bonjour!”) Dion still hedges and leans on the side of treachery and political expediency, as Liberals have done for the past few decades:
Stephane Dion, the new Liberal leader, said his party would not support the Bloc effort and suggested Bloc leader Gilles Duceppe’s position is one of political expediency.
“I don’t think really that the aim of Mr. Duceppe is so much Afghanistan as maybe to rush into an election [without] giving the Liberal party the capacity to organize,” he said.
[…] Yesterday Mr. Dion attacked the Bloc for suggesting the nonconfidence motion.
“I don’t understand the position of the Bloc,” he said. “I don’t want an election. I want to be ready for an election. I don’t think Canadians want an election.”
…raising the spectre that were the Liberal Party “organized” and ready for an election, then suddenly it wouldn’t be such a bad idea to topple the government on the basis of “what the hell”, and then cut and run and be the cheese-eating pantywaist that he and his party and those who vote for them are destined to be.
This would have been an excellent opportunity to slam the bejeezus out of that socialist un-Canadian Bloc-head, Mr. Duceppe, and his anti-Canadian pantywaist position on fighting (no, sorry, running away from, like a little girl) the global terrorist threat, and then surrendering. That’s what a good leader and defender of Canada’s national security and of freedom and democracy and leader in the war on terrorism would have done — he would have used the opportunity to rally the nation.
But no, instead, he cowers, and does nothing more than join in the same picayune rationale as his French ami and rationalizes the situation based on petty politics.
It’s pathetic.
Meanwhile, this web site stands firmly in support of our troops and the so obviously vital, noble mission that our nation is embarked on; and solidly behind the U.S.-led war on terror and the troops of the United States and the U.K. and Australia and other brave nations that are fighting on our behalf the war on terror in Iraq and anywhere else the war takes them—through the Christmas season while we eat turkey and gravy and some of us eat cheese.
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