Dispatches

And it's plausible they are toasting him. I saw Lew Mackenzie talking about this on TV, he pointed out they have satellite dishes, they get the news from Canada.
Keep it up, jack!ass!, every word is duly noted.

Private Mark Anthony Graham, a member of 1st Battalion, The Royal Canadian Regiment, based in Petawawa, Ontario. (Canadian Forces Combat Camera).

Private Mark Anthony Graham, RIP.

Lest We Forget. ...-

Olympic boss praises soldier and former sprinter

Updated Tue. Sep. 5 2006 2:42 PM ET

Canadian Press

TORONTO -- The Canadian Olympic Committee praised soldier and former sprinter Mark Graham as "a courageous patriot and an outstanding athlete'' on Tuesday.

Pte. Graham was killed and more than 30 others wounded Monday in Afghanistan as two U.S. aircraft accidentally opened fire on Canadians during a strafing run. He was 33.

Graham was a member of Canada's 4x400-metre relay team at the 1992 Olympic Games in Barcelona. Graham and teammates Byron Goodwin, Mark Jackson, Freddie Williams and Anthony Wilson placed 13th.

Graham also represented Canada at the 1994 Commonwealth Games and won silver in the 400 metres at the 1993 and 1994 Canadian track and field championships. He retired from athletics in 1994 due to injuries. ...-
http://www.paulding.net/bin/url.cgi/13396.19

"our success in iraq and afghanistan..."

hahahahahahahahahaha what a joke!

iraq today is ruled by PRO-IRANIAN fundamentilist, exactly what you guys here at SDA are so afraid of

and afghanistan, well have any of you read the headlines lately, it's not getting better, it's getting worst

The Indian Ocean Tsunami Relief in 2004....I remember, that was when the US delivered the life saving goods while our frinds at the UN came on the scene much later and dithered away precious time setting up endless impact studies.

The Indian Ocean Tsunami Relief in 2004....I remember a DISASTER NAME KATRINA, one year later, not much progress!

"W"ORST PRESIDENT EVER

I really hate frikin' trolls that spout off about Katrina but haven't a clue of what they speak. Chocolate City already has a mayor so get off your soapbox.

Oh yeah, I remember Canada's contribution to the Tsunami. The Lieberal government was humbled into matching the outpouring of generosity by the citizens of Canada. BTW: Just how much of that promised aid money actually got there? Any paperwork for that? I haven't heard of it.

September 5..
If this is the best you have...mite i suggest that you take the time to talk to a soldier that has been in Afgan..run your words bye him and see what he has to say..try the Ross hotel in Edmonton! there you will find the odd one having a beer.Id like to be there when you start shooting your mouth off.

i don't need to go to Edmundton to talk to a soldier that has been in afghanistan craig, are you telling me that only canadians soldiers from western canada were deployed to afghanistan?

Jacobin..who fooled you into your belief system?
our leftist, statist school system? you do realise that you have been duped, don't you?

Why would you want to see us fail in Afghanistan or elsewhere where we battle fundamentalist Islam?

You and your left ideaology would be the first to go if they ever win...

Why wouldn't you yourself join up ,and try to do something constructive?

Or are you afraid of truly having your eyes opened?

jacobin:

Fitting name for Jacobin: The Reign of Terror/The Red Terror/the Islamist fascist Terror: Jacobin. ...-

Jacobin/Jacobins.

The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition. 2001-05
After the fall of the Girondists (June, 1793), for which the Jacobins were largely responsible, the Jacobin leaders instituted the Reign of Terror. ..

"Why would you want to see us fail in Afghanistan or elsewhere where we battle fundamentalist Islam?"

--i don't want to see "US" fail, you guys view this as some sort of football match, you cannot change a peoples ideology with bombs and guns

"You and your left ideaology would be the first to go if they ever win..."

--no fucking way would i fight for a lie

--so why is there so many harpercrites chicken hawks?

Why wouldn't you yourself join up ,and try to do something constructive?

--afghanistan mission accomplished

--we destroyed all of the al "cia" duh bases

--we toppled the taliban/ karzai is president

"Or are you afraid of truly having your eyes opened?"

--it is you that is blind and cannot see the obvious, you'd rather watch FAUX news and live in a state of illusion

Kate:

It's banning time.

Paging Mr.Layton....your wake-up call!

If this country did not have a very proud history of killing our enemies before they could destroy us or our allies,you would not have the freedom to preach the opportunistic feel-good rhetoric you currently take for granted.That is simply a matter of fact.

You spit on all the graves of our fallen heroes and in the face of those putting it all on the line for their country at this very moment.And all for nothing more noble than your own feeble,socialist political aspirations.How do you ever get to sleep at night?

You unarguably have the rights and freedoms to act the irresponsible Jack-ass in our society....even to lead other naive fools if that is their wish.Millions of Canadians before you have made sacrifices,some enduring horrible suffering to ensure that.BUT,you have NO right to undermine the support of our young men and women proud to fight this new front in the neverending vigil to protect the freedom YOU take for granted.F*cking hypocrate!

Personally,I have never been a violent man but I can think of no more fitting a wake-up call than to see your skinny ass dragged behind a local legion hall and have some sense beat into you by a few of the remaining WW2 vets you dishonor with your misplaced and bordering on traitorous loyalties.Men who truly understand what price is due to protect freedom.

Taliban Jack indeed!

BTW,to those wasting everyone's time feeding the troll...PLEASE STOP!
If you cannot tell the ramblings of someone desperately trying to hit your hot-buttons from someone with an honestly held POV,perhaps you should not be posting replies.IMHO

Agreed.

i misunderstood this question

"You and your left ideaology would be the first to go if they ever win..."

--are you telling me that the taliban attacked us, ever?

--and am i to believe that the taliban will step of there horses and embark onto there little wooden boats, row accross the atlantic ocean to attack canada?

do you guys not use your brain?

Jacobin would have thrown the towel in after Dieppe, and probably would have been responsible for planning the mission in the first place.

I would like to further study Jack's proposal vis a vis negotiating with the Taliban. Problem is I don't have handy a plastic shopping bag so I can pick it up off the grass.

Ihave to repeat what someone here wrote a few days ago.It is too bad Layton's father didn't pull out a few minutes earlier.Or the troll's either.Layton is definetely going after the peacenik vote and he is doing it without concern for our soldiers fate overseas. He should be sent over to negotiate face to face with the Taliban.Anyone want to start a fund? If we can get the Ggov't to match funds we can probably send Graham over also. I'm sure he understands the nuance of the mullahs and thier attraction to young boys.

"...he is doing it without concern for our soldiers fate overseas"

--how?

Jacobin:

You WILL be among the first to go if the Taliban take over, because there is no compromise - there is never a compromise with extremists. You conveniently ignore the plight of the women of the Afghanistan who suffered as second class citizens under the Taliban. Its always easier to be an armchair quarterback.

"No fucking way I would fight for a lie". Care to elaborate? What lie? The lie you are living? The lie the (conservative hating) "faux media" has perpetrated on us? Or, perhaps the lies that George Bush tells us every day?

"You cannot change a people's ideology with bombs and guns". See, once again you distort the truth to obtain your warped view of the world. Please cite one example where Canadian soldiers have bombed anyone in Afghanistan. If I find out a Canadian soldier has car bombed civilians I WILL make it my mission in life to have Canada pull out of Afghanistan.

Our soldiers come from small towns and big cities. They were not conscripted. They are there because the LIBERAL government committed to rebuilding Afghanistan. The conservative goverment simply put Canada's collective money where the libs put their mouth.

Until then, your argumentative and presumptuous style simplies indicates that you don't have a clue - like Jack Layton, the more you speak the more you reveal of your ignorance.

JimC

when has the taliban attacked canada?

the liberals sent troops to afghanistan to destroy al "CIA" duh traing camps/bases, and to topple the taliban...mission which ends in '07 is accomplished

what harper has done, is to extend that commitment until '09 , and failed to have a real debate has to how our current commitment had changed, which it has, just look at the number of dead and wounded as of late

that's the LIE

"If I find out a Canadian soldier has car bombed civilians"

--no need the U.S warplanes is doing it for us, and also dropping bombs on our soldiers from time to time

Jacobin,
Elementary school is open again tomorrow,
good luck in your grade 4 studies.

The Taliban attacked Canada when they blew the statues out the side of the mountain.

The Taliban attacked Canada when they murdered a poor woman in a public square, in front of a video camera, for the world to see.

The Taliban attacked Canada when they decreed that young women should not have an education, nor proper medical care.

The Taliban attacked Canada when they murder Canadians trying to put in wells, build schools, develop commerce, restore the commerce the Taliban destroyed.

Canada is a nation of many. An attack on any is an attack on us all. Thus it was in WW.I, thus it was in WW.II. We entered WW.II years before the U.S. We have participated in every campaign against every oppressor since this country was born. Before peace keeping comes peace making. We are not fighting Dubya's war, we are fighting our own.

Give thanks for Mark Graham, Jacobin. He died for you. At least be worthy of his sacrifice.

(Promise, Kate, no more feeding the troll, he's so not worthy.)

thanks for proving that the taliban never attacked canada

the reason why the U.S entered WW2 years after we did, is because of there beautiful constitution, which cleary states that only congress can declare war, and they can only declare war if attacked (pearl harbour)

however since the neocons stole the elections in 2000, they introduced there treasonous pre-emptive war policy

"there (sic) treasonous"

No pie for you, dumbass!

Your pathetic reply to Skip's post indicates you're not capable of abstract thought, but can't you at least attain some minor level of literacy? Punctuation? Some capital letters?

No pie for you!

Maybe Jacobin and Jack can start stoning queers along with their good buddies, the Taliban.

BTW, asshole, we declared war on Germany not the other way around and they didn't attack Canada first.

germany attacked britain, and canada being a british colony declared war on germany!

go edumacate yourself andycanuck

Jacobins eat their own.

"New Republic' is an uber/left liberal-socialist magazine; an apologist for the likes of Robespierre, the Jacobin leader of the Reign of Terror, Stalin, Mao, Pol Pot, Castro, Mugabe,et al, and Jack "Taliban" Layton.

Jacobin Robespierre, a lawyer, was eaten/murdered by his own terrorists. Left liberal/socialists eat their own. ...-

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1696048/posts

'New Republic' blog shut down for attacking readers
Taipei Times ^ | 09-05-06 | WestVirginiaRebel

A senior editor at the New Republic was suspended and his blog was shut down on friday after revelations that he was involved in anonymously attacking readers who criticized his posts.

...which clearly states that only congress can declare war, and they can only declare war if attacked (pearl harbour)...they introduced there treasonous pre-emptive war policy.

Wrong. Idiot. Our Constituition doesn't require congressional approval to go declare war.

In most democratic nations, a Declaration of War customarily has to be passed by the legislature. In the United States there is no format required for declaration(s) of war.

wikipedia.org/wiki/Declaration_of_war

The majority of Democrats in Congress endorsed the invasion of Iraq, you twit. It wasn't only Bush that agreed to the Iraq invasion, but, then, you are too stupid to see your own contradiction. Ever check a fact, before your lips move? You must be a real prize to your employer. I would suspect your are always supervised closely.

****It's really time to ban this idiot whose facts are always flagrantly wrong and whose hyperbole is ridiculous. It's one thing to have an honest debate, it's another to have comments degraded by some lame troll.

maz2

what are you talking about?

penny

you are the idiot

the president DOES NOT DECLARE WAR
only CONGRESS can do that

"Democrats in Congress endorsed the invasion of Iraq"

voilà, can't you read?

When I was in grade 6, I learned that Britain and France declared war on Germany after Germany invaded Poland. Looks like our current socialist teachers have changed the history books.

The president of the United States has no clear constitutional authority to declare war without congressional approval

http://encarta.msn.com/guide_whocandeclarewar/Who_Can_Declare_War_Backgrounder_and_Research_Guide.html

Jacobin..perhaps you are in need of an "edumacation" Canada declared war for the first time in its proud history as a sovereign nation,not as a colony of Great Britain.

I don't like to feed trolls except to sharks..

Uh, did none of you read the VRWC (Canadian Chapter) memo in your inbox this week? It was entitled "Do Not Feed The Trolls." Stay with the tour, kids.

Jacobin Jack "Taliban" Layton is reeling; Stephen has the leaks from the Leaky Dipper of the Dippers. LOLOL ...-

Get your NDP draft policies here!

I received both a telephone call and an email from two Quebec-based journalists who followed my reporting of the NDP draft policy document on foreign policy. Both journalists independently told me that the NDP is keeping the rest of their draft policy under wraps until the weekend.

Unfortunately for the Dippers, I've got what the NDP is so eager to keep under wraps; I've got the other sections of the NDP draft policy document.

Here are the rest of the policy documents that I have. If you write about them in an newspaper article, reference them in a television report, or discuss them in a blog post, I ask that you cite this blog as the source. ...-
http://www.stephentaylor.ca/archives/000668.html

alan

one week after England and France declare war on Nazi Germany, Canadians make their own declaration of war as a sovereign nation

like that wasn't expected when only a few years earlier Canada Entered war together with Britain during WW1

jacobin...
Got your attention?
Just checkin' for dough heads.
(I really think you ought to "edumacate" your own self).
I'm guessing early 20s; old enough to feel you know everything, but too young for your political beliefs to have "evolved". You'll get it eventually... IF you've got any smarts.

P.S. Go Bush!

The Admiral's remarks at the Defense Forum were live blogged by Josh Manchester who writes an excellent blog, the Adventures of Chester at

http://www.theadventuresofchester.com/

"You'll get it eventually... IF you've got any smarts"

"P.S. Go Bush!"

--i'm afraid it's too late for you eh Joe B ;)

"W"ORST PRESIDENT EVER

and with an approval rating of 30%
(his evangenital christian base no doubt)
how can you debate that?

Let me see...
jacobin... jacobin... Oh, RIGHT! That's the name Victor Davis Hanson occaisionally uses as his pen name. I just KNEW by all that in-depth military history jacobin has been giving us that here's one fellow who knows EXACTLY what he's talkin' about!
Say, how are you on the Peloponesian War, big... I mean, little "j"?

jacobin...
what can i say except that i hope you are enjoying your freedom because my friend it may end sooner than you think if this war is'nt won, and it is a war. think about that along with your family and friends. by the way what is your solution to maintain our way and yours of our freedom ? thats what i thought.

Getting back to the topic of this thread (I had to scroll back to the top), I find that the UK seems to be leader in bending over backwards to make everything politically correct. Unfortunately, they also seem to have a great number of "home grown" terrorists. Maybe the left should see just how effective their eutopian ideas are.

Thanks for that TC.
I was recently talking to my 84 yr old mother,filling her in on the hot topics circling the blogosphere that she was not likely to see on TV.I explained the exposure of many leftists as hypocrates in declaring themselves the 'beacon of equal rights for all' yet they are unwilling to do anything(impeding progress actually)for millions of oppressed and abused muslim women in assorted countries when the opportunity is available.You know,the stuff we take for granted...an education,right to drive a car,seek a career,dress as we wish,choose a mate,etc.

She nailed it in one sentence:

"They don't vote in Canada,do they dear?"

"...your freedom because my friend it may end sooner than you think if this war is'nt won, and it is a war"

--if this is a war, and they hate us for our freedoms who are these islamofascist?

and why haven't they attacked sweden?

"by the way what is your solution to maintain our way and yours of our freedom ?"

--when thousands of british (red coats) were on U.S soil in 1776, the americans didn't say, give up all your rights for protection because they hate you for your freedom

instead they stood tall

“Anyone who trades liberty for security deserves neither liberty nor security”
--Benjamin Franklin

--i keep asking this, but who are these islamo fascist ready to take over the world?

Texas Canuck

There are over 603,000 Muslims in London, are you suggesting that they put all of these muslims in detention/concentration camps?

you know, just in case

jacobin said:

"germany attacked britain, and canada being a british colony declared war on germany!

go edumacate yourself andycanuck"

Actually Britain declared war on Germany on September 3, 1939. Two days earlier Germany invaded Poland; Britain and France had sworn to come to Poland's aid should she be attacked.

http://www.eyewitnesstohistory.com/vocham.htm

Germany did not attack Britain until after the two countries were at war.

And as kursk has already stated, Canada declared war on her own as a sovereign nation for the first time, NOT as a British colony.

britain declares war on germany, and canada 3 days later follows

oh no, canada isn't a british colony... nothing to see here, move along

"Canada declared war on her own as a sovereign nation for the first time"

--duh, after going throught the hardships of trying to recruiting french speaking canadians during WW1, would expect any different?

it's all smoke and mirrors, canada today is still a british colony