Reader “conservativegal” has been a huge help to me while I was sick (I’m still coughing and not 100% but I’m getting there), and sends me great material every day. I can’t thank her enough. And I’ll thank others, too, in another post.
But today she assembled a great array of articles about the stupid set as they protested the Iraq War yesterday (a war this web site fully supports), and of course while they were at it they protested anything conservative, or anything non-socialist, or anything non-appeasing to terrorists and of course they protested for more socialist social programs just for good measure. She also threw in some of the quotes from the sensible set (that’s folks like us).
Anyway, here’s what conservativegal sent me this morning:
I know there is support for our troops and for Harper’s government but the MSM is now starting to focus on the Canadian idiots who obviously know nothing about why we’re there and IMHO, are just jumping on the bandwagon because now, they have their own war to protest. Asshats, all of them. Jack Layton would be proud of them all.
Here are several links to stories and some REALLY MEMORABLE quotes
:
…The protesters, some dancing to keep warm, then marched down Ste. Catherine St. to Complexe Guy Favreau, many carrying anti-Harper placards.
…Among them: Harper is putting our lives in danger, and Mr. Harper, you were BARELY elected. Many chants targeted the U.S. president and Harper, including: “George Bush: terroriste, Harper: complice”
…Philippe Viene, a 25-year-old community activist, took part to send a message to Harper, who has said that Canada’s soldiers – sent by the previous Liberal government – will remain in Afghanistan.
…“The Conservatives always said they were for the war in Iraq and the occupation,” Viene said. “I want to send a message that we still don’t want to participate in the war. And I want Canada’s troops in Afghanistan to come back home, because we’re just helping the U.S. military strategy in the region.”
And what kind of Kool-Aid is this moron drinking?
Others attended not because of Iraq or Afghanistan or Iran or Bush or Harper, but simply for a more peaceful world.
“I’m against violence,” said Joanne Bergeron, who drove to Montreal from Rigaud for her first protest. “I want a gentler world and I don’t think that’s the direction we’re headed in.”
… Some protesters said Bush is a “terrorist” and “butcher.” One carried an upside-down U.S. flag defaced with a swastika.
…Julia Fairchild of Boston was angered by one chant in particular: “Canada … U.S.A. … How many kids did you kill today?”
…Her retort: “I didn’t kill any kids today – and that’s not why we’re in Iraq. They’re making us sound like monsters. Nobody talks about how bad Saddam Hussein was for Iraq.”
CTV Coverage: (lots of videos on the right sidebar)
…Carrying signs that said “Troops out of Iraq,” hundreds of people gathered in front of the U.S. consulate in Toronto at 1 p.m.
…Organized by the Toronto Coalition to Stop the War, Dylan Penner said more than 35 communities and cities across the country joined the protests around the globe.
…“Hundreds of thousands of people around the world are rallying to oppose the ongoing occupations of Iraq and Afghanistan,” Penner said.
…“We’re here in Toronto and Canada to put Stephen Harper on notice that it’s time for our troops out of Iraq and Afghanistan.”
Then, we have The Red Star:
The futility of Canada’s mission in Afghanistan…Killing a civilian negates good work
by Thomas Walkom…The tragic shooting in Kandahar this week stands as a bleak reminder of the contradictions besetting Canada’s new Afghan adventure.
…Whether Canadian troops issued the appropriate warnings before fatally wounding pot-maker Nasrat Ali as his motorized rickshaw approached a stalled military convoy is, in the broadest sense, almost irrelevant.
..The fact that the shooting happened at all underscores the flaw behind Western intervention in Afghanistan….Troops from Canada, the U.S. and other NATO countries are there to protect the local population. .. Yet, they do not, and cannot, trust the very people they are ostensibly there to help. Every pot-maker in a motorized rickshaw — every teenager with an axe — is a potential enemy. … As a result, incidents like the shooting of Nasrat Ali are fated to happen. Canadian soldiers will — understandably — fire on civilians that they think might threaten them… Sometimes those shootings will turn out to be justified (there are suicide bombers in Kandahar). But sometimes, as in this case, they will not. …
Our reputation for promoting peace, is at risk, says Linda McQuaig
…There’s a campaign afoot to convince Canadians we aren’t loved in the world. As prominent military commentator Jack Granatstein recently put it: “Canadians are targets, no matter how we try to convince ourselves that the world loves us. It doesn’t.”
…Similarly, Gen. Rick Hillier, reportedly told The Globe and Mail’s editorial board that “it’s folly to think terrorists will pass us by because we’re nice.”
Amidst all of the Star’s anti-war rhetoric, is this little gem:
Who cares whether terrorists like us or not, argues Rondi Adamson
(a Toronto writer whose articles have appeared in the Christian Science Monitor, Wall Street Journal Europe and Tech Central Station.)
But then this:
Get out of Iraq: That’s America’s only option
Haroon Siddiqui says Canada could help Washington find an exit strategy
…Other democracies are not immune. We have Maher Arar and the security certificates. Our troops in Afghanistan are in danger of going down the same slippery slope as the Americans, albeit on a smaller scale, if we turn a friendly populace hostile with civilian collateral damage.
Canoe.ca has some interesting stories.
This page links to the papers in their chain.
Here’s a positive sign:
Recruits rallying to sign up
…Despite a surge in attacks against Canadian soldiers in Afghanistan, recruiters at a Canadian forces job fair said yesterday they are seeing their ranks swell with eager candidates
And another good editorial from the Toronto Sun:
The debate nobody heard
…On the evening of Nov. 15, 2005—just four months ago—at the urging of then-defence minister Bill Graham, Parliament held a debate over Canada’s military mission in Afghanistan.
…That would be the current mission—the dangerous one in Kandahar that some opposition MPs and pundits are demanding that Parliament must debate.
…We’ll forgive Sun readers for not remembering the November debate, since it’s obvious that no one else does.
…Certainly not the opposition MPs calling for another one.
…Just because nobody paid attention to the debate, however, doesn’t mean it didn’t happen. And reading the transcripts in Hansard—the official record of Parliament—makes the current calls by the opposition parties for another debate on the Afghanistan mission seem even more hypocritical.
Protesters hit Canada’s streets
Here’s the kind of people that are protesting:
…Patrick Hart, a former U.S. Army sergeant who fled to Canada last August with his wife and son, told the crowd he is often called a coward for his decision.
…“It takes a lot more courage to run away from a war than it does to participate in a war,” said Hart, 32, who served in the army for nearly 10 years and could face 30 years in prison for deserting. (Patick Hart)…He served in Kuwait in 2003-04 and he would have been shipped to Iraq if he stayed. “I’m not anti-American, I’m not anti-soldier—I’m anti-Bush,” Hart said.
…Dozens of organizations, coalitions and groups, ranging from the B.C. Teachers Federation to the Raging Grannies, gathered at the Seaforth Peace Park and marched downtown to assemble in front of the art gallery.
…”(The Americans) are no good, and we want them out,” said Yezin Al-Qaysi, a high school student who left Iraq with his family and came to Canada during the Gulf War.
…And in Ottawa, about 80 demonstrators, mostly young people, gathered about two blocks from Parliament Hill and later at the National Gallery to protest against the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan.
IMHO, these next two stories kind of put a kibosh on all of these protesters who want peace and non violence and figure that appeasement will make the world a better place, free from terrorists and the like.
Canadian product used to raise funds by al-Qaeda (this came from the blog “Strongworld”, with a link to the Globe and Mail Story):
British police have found that al-Qaeda terrorists are making use of a Canadian software product to help raise funds to finance their operations. Buried inside a Compaq laptop was a Canadian innovation — software that had helped finance al-Qaeda terrorists who were plotting to blow up the U.S. embassy in Paris.
The invention that makes al-Qaeda rich
Buried inside a Compaq laptop was a Canadian innovation — software that had helped finance al-Qaeda terrorists who were plotting to blow up the U.S. embassy in Paris.
This is how it got there.
The story is long, but fascinating. The implications are pretty scary and it just shows the mindset of Al-Qaeda. The international community cannot sit idly by and let things like this happen. Appeasement does not work. Terrorists will use whatever means necessary to further their cause.
And, finally:
Newly released document links Saddam to al-Qaida. Among the pre-war documents posted online yesterday by the Pentagon is a letter from a member of Saddam’s intelligence apparatus indicating al-Qaida and the Taliban had a relationship with the regime prior to the 9-11 attacks. Read the latest now on WND.com.
(All of these documents are posted on-line (link through the article) and some are reproduced so you don’t have to go scrolling through the pages posted by the Pentagon.)
You sure don’t see this in blazing headlines, do you?
There now. Not bad for a Sunday morning.
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