The top United Nations aid official said today that Canadas’s military offensive in the Panjwaii region of Afghanistan is a “disproportionate use of force” but he again emphasized that all sides were guilty of violating humanitarian law.*.Jan Egeland, the Under-Secretary-General for Humanitarian Affairs and Emergency Relief Coordinatorwas was reacting to reports that "as many as 72 Taliban insurgents were killed in fighting with Canadian and Afghan forces in Panjwaii that began in the early evening Saturday..."
There were no Canadian casualties.
Egeland pointed to the unequal loss of life as evidence of Canadian heavy-handedness in the conflict.
“This was clearly a disproportionate use of force,” he said during a visit that included an inspection of mud huts destroyed by a NATO air strike. Thousands of civilians have fled the conflict.
"Canadians must take responsibility for not limiting the losses inflicted on the Taliban to numbers more in line with their own paltry losses in this conflict."
No attempt was made to contact Canada's Foreign Affairs Department officials for reaction, but the Harper government came under heavy criticism from opposition members who expressed concern with their "apparent lack of diplomatic efforts" to resolve the conflict.
When asked if he were in favour of the Taliban being taken off the terror list, Etobicoke Liberal Borys Wrzesnewskyj said: "Yes, I would be."
Editor's Note - prompted by one of our readers, I would like to recommend the well known blogsite Scrappleface as supplemental reading.
Where are all the crazies on the side of common sense and the protection of our way of life? Stand up and be counted. Use a little Disproportionate force on the likes of idiot Egeland.
I'm almost speechless.
I can't be interpreting this correctly, because it seems to state that we should ensure that an equal number of our guys and Taliban fighters are killed in each conflict.
I'm almost speechless.
I'm glad that he said this. The un are like the liberals, death of a thousand cuts. Keep yapping Jan, you idiot.
Excellent analogy, Kate!
It really shows the total lack of intellectual and moral vigor on the part of Israel's western critics.
Re: UN's Response
You...have...got...to...be...kidding!!
72 - 0
I don't think we could have done that well if we played the Taliban at hockey.
I am so proud our military, I could burst!!
Nice parody, way to bring the point home!
Please ,72 dippers or liberals stand up to even the count.
This reminds me of an old Star Trek episode where two worlds had sanitized war to the point of disposing of x amount of their own people according to a computer war game. Frikkin' idiots like Egeland figure if the casualties are the same on both sides then everything is fine and the UN has an unlimited source of things to resolution on.
Flashback, young Jan :"Bwaaaaa, you sunk my battleship". (with appologies to Hasbro)
Actually,I believe Liberal MP Wrzesnewsky is quoted as wanting Hezbullah off the terrorist list,NOT the Taliban.
Still,it's a typical pussified,naive liberal statement.
Did the honourable(?) members visit Israel at all? I didn't think so.
I hear there are still some seats on the junket to Venezuela.
How gullible are some of the commenters above?
Just had to be: Borys is a Trudeaupian.
Borys's Excellent Adventure in Somalia (Where I Find My Idol/Hero, PET). ...-
"My first night, I met the Prime Minister, the minister of planning and international development, and the President (whose profile uncannily resembles Pierre Trudeau's). Mr. Yusuf spoke of his years in the Somali army, his 12 years as a political prisoner in an Ethiopian jail, and his determination to create a working democratic federal republic." ..-
http://ayaanhirsiali.web-log.nl/ayaanhirsiali/2005/08/198_somalia_dem.html
The horrifying thing is that this COULD have been a legitimate article......there are certainly those who would be eager to write/print it.
BTW....I checked a number of International News sources, including NZTV, and NOT ONE mentioned Canadians being involved in the latest hostilities.....it was all "Afghan & NATO troops".
So much for those who talk incessantly of "Canada's Worldwide Reputation".
The horrifying thing is that this COULD have been a legitimate article......there are certainly those who would be eager to write/print it.
BTW....I checked a number of International News sources, including NZTV, and NOT ONE mentioned Canadians being involved in the latest hostilities.....it was all "Afghan & NATO troops".
So much for those who talk incessantly of "Canada's Worldwide Reputation".
This definately qualifies as Useful Idiot Quote of the day!
I'll be posting this one at my other site this evening.
http://theusefulidiots.blogspot.com/
Oh, this is a p-a-r-o-d-y. Honestly, Kate, you've got to make it more obvious. I just thought you got your facts wrong, and I'm not the dullest knife in the drawer.
Still, once you realize it's a parody, it makes a good point. Indeed, Canada's sovereignty was never violated the way Israel's was.
I keep saying this, but nobody ever listens. I'll try again:
The UN is a cold-war institution that was designed as a means to AVOID making decisions while talking a lot and keeping up a polite face. As such, it is currently living up to it's design specs. Lots of talk, fairly polite, ZERO decisions.
Don't like the results? Stop funding the worthless gas-factory.
These same butsuckers who would advocate that we take it easy on the poor murdering bastards would allow and have allowed the death of (millions?) of innocent civilian victims at the hands of those same groups.
They are hypocrites of the worst sort.
"Measured and proportionate response" would logically involve similar numbers on the side of Taliban/Hezbollah/Hamas/PLO/ etc.
The taliban have become predictable, the result was a trap set & sprung.
Lesson . . don't screw with Canadian soldiers. We fight like we play hockey - elbows up.
Well I'll be, I have been hornswaggled for this one! Guess the jokes on me
Kate:
enough with the parodies for the time being ok?
Moi oussi.
Note to self, drink coffee...clear head and THEN read!
Heh.
Good point. The anti-semites aren't calling on "proportion" here, are they? It's only Israel who aren't allowed to kill terrorists that are trying to exterminate them.
Having been caught a few times by Mark Collins' Cannonball Press parodies, I'm proud of myself for recognizing a spoof right out of the gate.
meanwhile, in Buford Butte, SK,
A retaliatory home incursion has left 2 local men dead. The 2 brothers had entered an area farmer's home with blazing guns in an apparent attempt to locate and kill the farmer and his family. The father of the deceased has explained to this reporter that his boys weren't thugs, but rather were trying to make things right after learning that the farmer was receiving money in exchange for the crops her grew and the animals he raised; money the brothers had never been offered. Both boys were killed when the resident grabbed a hunting rifle from his collection and brutally gunned down the misunderstood young men. Their father said that the boys had not known what they were getting into because a cursory check with their local MP had shown no firearms registered to anyone in the residence.
A preliminary investigation has shown that the youngsters had been brandishing a tiny .22 caliber rifle, a little 9mm modified assault rifle and one of them had a mostly harmless .38 caliber revolver in his waistband when they were killed. A judge has ruled that the massive 30.06 caliber moose hunting cannon used by the farmer was clearly not a measured response to the situation and is further evidenced by the disproportionate number of casualties on each side of the conflict.
The local NDP MPP, I. Manass, has suggested that justice in this case will only be served by having the clearly out of control homeowner remit possession of the deadly weapon to the father of the slain boys, who will then use it to eliminate the farmer's wife and daughter.
Manass claims, "Only in this way will we see that everyone has received fair and equal treatment. This will show the world how Canadian values should be a beacon to the dienfranchised from the less progressive western democracies in North America....north of Mexico....and around the world."
Photos of the crime scene will not be available until tomorrow as our editor has just received the latest version of Photoshop "Dust-b-Gone" software and needs some time to make sure the pictures are appropriate for public perusal.
*blush* Call me gullible if you like...but it was certainly believable...
Jan Engelund: take a half pound stick of C4, insert about 50 ball bearings, attach detonation fuse, shove it about six inches up your rectum, then light the fuse. In three seconds, you will see how much "PROPORTION" an Islamic splodydope commits evrey day.
Sarcastic enough?
maybe the taliban will switch from the soft helmets that cover their soft skulls.
Here's the thing.
I've read some reports that say that the Taliban has been targeting Canadian troops as the weakest link in the coalition. This just doesn't make sense from a soldiering perspective. Canuck troops have always fought hard and well. Could it mean that Canada has the weakest political will? Could it mean that Jack Layton et al and their vocal unprincipled opposition to the mission is putting troops in harm's way?
A parody! Not fair. Too close to the truth to be a parody...I was fooled...blood pressure went up. It could easily have been real...
"I've read some reports that say that the Taliban has been targeting Canadian troops as the weakest link in the coalition."
not Canadians troops - they targeted Canada because they think CANADIANS are the weak link, that the home front is soft.
Not a good plan given the battlefied results. Maybe they should have picked on the French - they actually have a history of collapsing shortly after the first bullet is fired.
Hey - lets send a couple of MP's one Liberal, one NDP to go see a couple of Taliban body bag piles. They could report back on the criminality of soldiers killing enemies.
Hmmmmmm I wonder who we could send ??
Anyone have and MP's names to recommend ??
It is becoming more clear everyday. The UN is dangerous to Canada's democracy. Google Maurice Strong , a Canadian. It will all become VERY CLEAR.
I think some of our soldiers should be asked to commit suicide to even the score a little. That's only fair.
The UN will be flying two flags - Jan Egeland will be holding the white surrender one and the French guy with the yellow stripe on his back of his shirt will be holding the Hezbollah flag.
UN be damned!
It sounds like you folks would enjoy this:
http://rightwingnytimes.cf.huffingtonpost.com/
Remember: It's a parody.
...quick, does Canada even have enough military to do a disproportionate use of force?
I agree with above post where Jan Egeland is musing equal amounts of deaths on both sides. Where do these people stick their heads at night?
Jan Egeland is todays' winner of the "Useful Idiot's" award` gvie her a hand.
wow......did any of you actually click on the links provided? this is a hoax! you're all so willing to suckle at kate's teat that you never even bother to question her posts! even when she willingly fucks with you heads. think for yourselves occasionally.
Hey Jeff
I think they were using the left side of their brain :)
All parodies aside, can't we just bomb the UN and the Media? Please?
We can send the big B52 bombers full of MOABs to level the lot of them. I'd start with the UN then go directly to al-BBC, then to al-CBS, al-CBC and al-NYT. After that you go down the list to al-LA times, al-Washington Post, Al-Toronto "red" Star, the al-Globe and Mail... until there's no more al-terrorist supporting, jew-hating a$$holes in any position of power.
Critical reading skills 101 boys and girls. Jan is a he not a she. At least not yet... that I'm aware of.
Jan Egeland is a "pussy whipped" Swede male, or as AHnold would say "girly man."
I forget who said it, but in war, if it's a fair fight, you didn't plan it well.
If the UN was interested in ending war, they wouldn't complain about 'disproportionate responses'. Proportionate responses just allow for escalation of the conflict. Disproportionate responses cut to the chase. And since the Taliban cannot hope to outgun NATO, this would hopefully mean their demise is imminent.
And isn't that the whole point in this mission?
For starters, the UN and Kofi Annan are no friends of Israel.They just aren't capable of dealing with a democratic state, it's something foreign to too many of the despots and dictators which make up that body. So Annan would consider defending one's country against an agressor, in this case terrorists fed by Iran and Syria, disproportionate force, to bomb after being bombed. We've had enough useless opinion and chatter from that ineffectual body and it's useless head, it's time for a clean up,
B Hoax Aware: The name Maurice Strong, currently hiding out in China somewhere, should send us all running for cover. What a disaster.
Jeff: You are disgusting . You should be banned for posting such vile language/thoughts on this blog. We have many serious problems in our world which need serious thought and opinion and your trash-talk is no solution to anything.
Frankly, I think the UN is as dead as the League of Nations. The time has come that Canada abandons that international, socialist gang of corruption and hypocrisy.
Seems alot of people missed that this was a parody, though the fact it is hard to distinguish as being a parody is probably just sign of the times...
I believe that the 2 party "fact" finding mission was minus a third when the Conservative (rightly) withdrew from this junket.I imagine that he saw the writing on the wall.None of you actually thought these idiots would do or say anything to back Canadas' position , do you?
Just another tax payer funded club to bash PMSH with i am afraid...
Canada has pledged thirty million bucks for the rebuilding of Lebanon, the most of any country so far. I'd hate to see how much it would've cost had the Israeli invasion not been "measured."
Keep doing the parody Kate. It keeps your site from starting to be an echo chamber.
Oh crap Kate, that was one the best you've posted in a while... I damn near pissed myself laughing when I read it.
UN is just pissed because it's a NATO operation.
Why are there so many people who think this is real? Wouldn't "SDANewsNet" ring a bell? There's a difference between reading news and vacuuming it. Excellent satire, though ...