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Re: Not embarassed to be a Canadian anymore...
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Sat, 23 Nov 2002 21:30:43 GMT
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In lugnet.off-topic.debate, John Neal writes:
> In lugnet.off-topic.debate, David Koudys writes:
> > Someone, somewhere, in a position of Canadian Authority, told it like it is.
> > 
> > Though I would never call any person a moron, I would call a persons
> > policies and directives moronic, and that's how I feel about Dubya--he may
> > not be a moron, but where he's leading you Yanks, and the rest of us along
> > for the ride, is moronic.
> 
> I can't help but to wonder if this person's opinion would be different had OBL
> leveled a different target-- namely Toronto's First Canadian Place.
> 
> He may disagree with Bush's decisions handling worldwide terrorism, but
> calling them "moronic" is mere demogoguery.  What I'd like to hear are some
> alternate solutions to deal with terrorism that don't include a dependence upon
> the naive solution of diplomacy (because I've seen how well that strategy has
> worked in the ME)
> 
> -John

And I wonder how we would all feel if Dubya at least acted like a true
leader of "the people"--leading them to do the right thing--instead of
trotting down the same old 'naive solution' of 'he who has the biggest stick'.

What I want to hear, once, from any leader involved in this fiasco, is, "Yes
this was done to us, but we're going to take the high road--we're going to
extend the olive branch of true peace, and we're especially not going to
muddy the waters in order to get revenge."

But no, that's not what we're getting--Larry's link to the Star Wars-esque
poster was dead on.  At least, so I have been noticing, the political
cartoonists don't feel that their mouths are taped shut, that they have a
first ammendment to stand on.

But that's too many things to delve into with one post.  How do I feel?
Canada was explicitly named in the list of likely candidates in OBL's latest
threat tape.  How do I feel?  That we're all sitting here in the same boat,
that we're looking for true leadership, and here goes Dubya after Saddem.

Moronic?

Duuh!bya

Dave K.



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(...) I wouldn't exactly call "he who has the biggest stick" a naive solution-- perhaps a tried and proven one.... Remember, Saddam has a pretty big stick himself-- he has butchered 100,000s of his own people with it! So why are so many bleeding (...) (24 years ago, 24-Nov-02, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)

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(...) I can't help but to wonder if this person's opinion would be different had OBL leveled a different target-- namely Toronto's First Canadian Place. He may disagree with Bush's decisions handling worldwide terrorism, but calling them "moronic" (...) (24 years ago, 23-Nov-02, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)

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