[T]omorrow night in the city of brotherly love, Mr. Chr�tien — accompanied by two RCMP officers decked out in their red serge dress uniforms — will receive an award as a global role model from a gay and lesbian activist group, the Equality Forum, for his support of same-sex marriage.
On Sunday, the two Mounties — one male, one female on assignment with the government-supported Canadian Tourism Commission — will accompany Kevin Bourassa and Joe Varnell, the first gay couple to be married in Canada, as they receive a “hero award” from the forum.
This is a job for juxtapose!
The United States wants to give two teams of Canadian snipers the Bronze Star, a decoration for bravery, for their work in rooting out Taliban and al-Qaeda holdouts in eastern Afghanistan, but Canadian defence officials put the medals on hold, the National Post has learned.
The five snipers spent 19 days fighting alongside the scout platoon of the United States Army’s 187th “Rakkasan” brigade last month, clearing out diehard fighters from the mountains near Gardez in eastern Afghanistan.
The Americans were so impressed by the Canadian snipers that they recommended them for medals after the battle.
Sources told the Post that U.S. General Warren Edwards had already signed the recommendation for five Bronze Stars for the sniper teams, drawn from 3rd Battalion, Princess Patricia’s Canadian Light Infantry, last month.
Gen. Edwards, deputy commanding general of coalition land forces in Afghanistan, had recommended three Canadians for a Bronze Star and two for a Bronze Star with distinction.
The night before the troops were to be awarded the medals, about three weeks ago, Canadian military officials in Ottawa put the decorations on hold, according to a U.S. Army source in Afghanistan.
The Canadian military told their U.S. counterparts to wait before awarding the medals for reasons of “Canadian protocol.”
Spokesmen for the Department of National Defence would not comment on the award last night, but a source within the department said the medals are on hold while the military decides whether or not to award the men a similar Canadian decoration.
However, Dr. David Bercuson, director of the Centre of Military and Strategic Studies at the University of Calgary, said the real reason for the delay was likely official squeamishness.
What a pathetic excuse for a country we live in.
Canada may be at last discovering that leftist political correctness doused with more than a bit of anti-American sauce provides a gruel too thin to sustain a real nation. The spirit of the Red Ensign is what has always impressed me, a close outsider. I hope it returns.
Who is squeamish?
Not these babes:
Over at Instapundit find the link to Egyptian protest babes!!! (not Tut & the mummies).
Women are protesting in Egypt: Mubarak is finished.
Link from 27 April, 2005. Go ahead, click over.
As printed in the NY Times ( Gray Lady is waking up? Not really.. Sigh.)
Okay, let me get this straight. Canadians are appalled at what’s happened to their military, seeing it as an international joke. The Americans want to decorate some brave soldiers, who against what seems from the outside looking in appear to be insurmountable odds, that actually have excelled in their chosen task.
And the government puts it on hold???? WTF?
“two Mounties — one male, one female”
Oh, that is so 90’s. Why not two Lebanese or two boy toys?
I would argue with this line from the Globe & Mail article re Chretien “…the spectacle of the former prime minister being escorted by uniformed Mounties to an award dinner is inappropriate…” It’s only inappropriate because they aren’t (yet) escorting him to jail.
Embarrassing. Sickening. Depressing.
Come on people, this is the Liberal Party… leftists posing as centrists. You know… “make love not war” and all that BS.
Disgusted we are, but hardly surprised.
One can imagine the Liberanos being uptight about Cdn soldiers being able to take out a person from over a mile away with a rifle. (That’s why the Barrett rifle is banned in this country- American civvies can legally buy and have fun with these things.)
Gays are giving Mr. Chretien an award? Whatever for? When that prowler broke into 32 Sussex Drive, it was inadvertently revealed that Mr. Chretien actually SLEEPS WITH HIS WIFE!!! And she’s a woman! What kind of a role model is that?
Wanda
So it wasn’t enough for the government to all but get rid of the Canadian military, now they’re somehow embarrassed by some of the remaining military actually doing something soldierish?
“These guys joined the army, went to a combat zone and actually did their job well? What? They *killed* people? Oh, we have to hush this up!”
Is Chretien going to have an apple in his mouth?
“Mr. Chretien actually SLEEPS WITH HIS WIFE”
But he paid good money to the gay lobby, and favours, with no expectation of anything in return (perish the thought) being pure at heart.
It just becomes more ridiculous every day.
We need someone in this political frat club to go to a real jail with real criminals and pronto.
Why are Gagliano and Guite still walking and spouting in our streets
Whothefuck would want to give Chretian anything but a frozen boot up his gold plated corrupt ass.
Our god ,…Pierre Trudeau, like our new PM Jackoff are card carrying pinkos who have had us in some banned WWF submission hold for my entire life.
Are we so afraid of standing up for ourselves that we will again kneel at the alter of PC selfflagellates.
Our electorate is stupid or bought, our country has lost any sort of moral compass our politicians are siphoning off as much of our hard earned tax dollars as they can for themselves and banning the media reporting the slow excruciating faux investigation of it.
We have become an insignaficant rogue dictatorship run by elites elected by retarded state brainwashed imbiciles, and our MSM to borrow a popular poker term are “all in” .
We need to reduce the size of government introduce special prosecutors and whistle blowing legislation NOW, reduce taxes and limit the power of the PMO.
We need heads on pikes and flames shooting from corrupt guvment offices,we need to look at the bank accounts with full forensic accounting of all live ex and sitting politicians.
Oh no that’s not going to happen though because if someone,…ANYONE mentions the words “reform”,”church”,”hidden agenda” or “American” our timorous political agoraphobic chickenshit electorate will slam us back into 4 more years of more of the same disgusting filth.
Today a two year old baby died in the waiting room of a Toronto hospital while waiting for over an hour for a doctor.
Tell me how you can vote these pricks back in?
I hate the Libranos as much as the next person, but there may be more to the medals story than is obvious. Check this link (scroll down a little bit to Further Reflections on Medals):
http://www.snappingturtle.net/flit/archives/2002_06_04.html
Any veterans who could comment on the accuracy of the claims made at that link?
government military stuff:
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a.Authorization. E.O. 11046, 24 August 1962
b.Eligibility Requirements
1.Awarded to any person who, while serving in any capacity with the Armed Forces of the United States,
distinguishes himself after 6 December 1941, by heroic or meritorious achievement or service, not involving
participation in aerial flight.
a.while engaged in an action against an enemy of the United States;
b.while engaged in military operations involving conflict with an opposing foreign force; or
c.while serving with friendly foreign forces engaged in an armed conflict against an opposing armed force in
which the United States is not a belligerent party.
2.To justify this decoration, accomplishment or performance of duty above that normally expected, and sufficient to
distinguish the individual among those performing comparable duties, is required, although less than the
requirements for the Silver Star or the Legion of Merit. Minor acts of heroism in actual combat, single acts of
merit or meritorious service connection with military or naval operations may justify this award.
c.Combat Distinguishing Device. The Combat Distinguishing Device may be authorized.
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I don’t know the details of what conditions they were under, they may have been seperated from any support units by some distance (very likely), they may have come under enemy fire (possible-to-likely). What the hell does the Canadian govt care? It’s *our* medal, it met *our* requirements.
The only way I see the Canadian govt might throw a wrench in the works is saying they couldn’t wear it on their uniforms. An example of that would be my German marksman medal. Their requirements weren’t the same as ours, but except for a fairly brief period where the army said no foreign medals on our Class A’s, we were allowed to wear it. They never said we couldn’t accept the thing (for what we used to call an “I-Love-Me Wall”).
The Canadian sniper story is pretty old news, and I remember being pretty flabbergasted by it when I first heard it. I wonder if they ever did get their medals? Does anybot know?
Maybe we should include American citizenship with the medal – then they can come down here, accept the medals, and stay.
If nothing else, I’m sure the army would be happy to provide them with a job.
Jay:
There are more than welcome to become American citizens. We respect our Armed Forces. And we pay ours a hell of lot more money too!
I believe some of the snipers have now left the services – the politics of envy that masquerades as anti-Americanism has infected the Canadian Armed Forces.
So the better you do, the sooner you’re out? (“oot?”)
hey Just remember these are the same Smacktards who disbanded the Canadian Airborne for doing exactly what they were trained to do in Somalia. Just a clue here ya don’t send “the Machine” to be peace keepers and baby sitters. Send them in to commit mayhem, liquidate targets, make peace through lack of opposition but not as peace keepers. The sham story about the Hazing rituals was just to cover up the government’s egregious error in judgement and squemishness about the entire military. My best friend is an ex lawndart, HALO qualified, among other darker things and was one hell of a soldier. That he is not recognized as a veteran after the things he has told me about which he ought not to have I find to be even more offensive than the adscam scandal. To our American readers the Airborne was the canadian side of what used to be the devils brigade during WW2 which was first trained in Helena Montana, yeah the Librano’s disbanded them, “We can’t have real soldiers in the Canadian Armed Forces, they might actually put real bullets into their guns.”
D.