The fight from the liberal-left and their media to lower the flag to half staff for each fallen soldier in Afghanistan is a political move designed to diminish our resolve in the war on terror, thereby appeasing the terrorists by doing as they hope we do —lose our resolve. And they hope to bring a resumption of the liberal-leftist pacifist stance and generally lower our fortitude as a nation, such that the Conservative government relents, and ultimately cuts and runs.
The liberals don’t want peace, they want to be in power. The liberals don’t want to mourn Canada’s military dead, they want to be in power. Liberal-leftists aren’t sad that we lost four military men in Afghanistan recently, they’re happy. They think it helps prove their point—that we should not do our bit and help the Americans fight the Taliban because after all, they deserved what they got on September 11, 2001. They want America to lose. They don’t see past that and they hope you don’t either. And many don’t.
The flag remaining at full staff at the nation’s capital reaffirms to us that the nation is strong, proud, and sure, and to the brave fighting soldiers and those that are yet to join the fight, reaffirms our resolve and conviction. And it’s the right thing to do.
The media insisting that they be allowed to cover a private affair is abominably egotistical, and is put forward by nothing short of a transparently self-interested, tendentious, political motive-ridden mass of liberals and other leftists.
Privacy, politics cited in coverage
Retired general Paul Manson, a pilot and former chief of the defence staff, said that while he doesn’t see a political hand at work in the decision, he says the situation can be played for political gain.
“The only thing that troubles me about it is that those people who are opposed to Canadian military operations overseas use this and play up the body count psychosis, as some have called it, for their own ends.”
[…] About 100 Canadians died on peacekeeping missions over the last half century and were brought home to quiet burials.
But the dead of Afghanistan have been different, especially since four soldiers were accidentally killed by an American bomb four years ago.
They came home to a tearful country and were met by a high-ranking team of official mourners.
Historian Jack Granatstein calls the reaction to those deaths “bizarre.”
“Because they fed into our anti-Americanism, they became a major national drama,” he said. “They even invented a memorial ceremony with reversed rifles and boots and helmets, none of which is in our tradition.”
He blames media overreaction.
“I think the whole thing comes out of the extraordinary attention the media has given the deaths in Afghanistan,” he said.
“It is bound to create this kind of situation. I wish we were an adult nation and accepted that our soldiers are going to get hurt in operations abroad.”
The liberal Washington Post reports:
…[Defence minister] O’Connor also defended the decision not to lower the national flag over the main Parliament building as a return to a tradition observed through the first two World Wars and Korean War, when Canada lost 117,000 troops. The previous government’s decision to lower the flag to half-staff for Afghanistan casualties was inconsistent and dishonored previously fallen soldiers, argued O’Connor, a retired general.
That position had the support from Canada’s largest veterans organization, the Royal Canadian Legion…
In another article, the liberal Washington Post quotes military expert and expert about all things Bush, the ultra socialist NDP’s Ujjal Dosanjh, who at the best of times sounds very much like a communist to me. The have him quoted as asking without a shred of nuance, “Dare I say president Harper is following in the footsteps of President Bush?”
Dare you not do that, Dosanjh? Dare you grow up and act like an adult? Dare you not think like a liberal-leftist anti-American anti-Bush brainless robot for just one day?
Thanks to conservativegal for her daily media feed which included these stories, and for her own input.
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