I don’t mean a wussy go-to-Halifax-to-wave-them-off visit, I mean get your ass on a plane & go to a base that requires you put on a flack jacket? (I bet his son is real pissed he didn’t get to go.)
Does anybody know? I’m too busy to look it up right now, but I just have to say that THIS is whyI voted for Harper.
And this is also why I will never, ever vote for Jack. What a complete a$$hole. Just as the military get excited because for the first time in far too long they have a Prime Minister & gov’t (minority or otherwise) not just willing, but proud to support them, and there’s Jack back in Canada, being the prick that wants to burst that bubble.
As soon as I think I can type an email that will be both coherent & civil enough, I will tell that little weasel what I think of him. I might even post it.
But for now, back to YAY HARPER!!!!
I haven’t felt this proud to be Canadian in a long time.
crossposted at Waking Up On Planet X
OK, enough of this “Jack” stuff.
My name is Jack
and I don’t live in the back
of the Tommy Douglas
home for wayward boys and girls.
I can, however, again feel proud of being Canadian.
Way to go PMSH
MaryT: hey mary Ive been away what’s this about Emerson’s Office
To all liberal leftist whiners about Harper’s trip to Afghanistan…
SHUT THE * UP!
Dang these guys are like an old creaking door swinging in the wind – sorry no more grease, fix it yourself!
A NOTE TO CANADA’S OPPOSITION PARTIES:
The election is over!
For once,put your COUNTRY ahead of your PARTY!!!!
I’m glad everyone here has found some mutual support and is able to give a big “hurrah” for the PM that cmapigned on accountability and cleaning up government, but went on to give Emerson a cabinet post only 2 weeks after he was elected as a Liberal. Harper also campaigned on an elected senate, but appointed a new member to the senate and to cabinet. I’m glad that you can all support his visit to Afghanistan and forget his lack of ethics and acountability in all other aspects of his so-called leadership. It’s easy to say “go Harper” when you know everyone that reads this blog, and posts comments is as equally blindsided by one positive action that doesn’t even come close to making up for all of the broken campaign promises, and the session hasn’t even started yet. Bask in the *glory* of Stephen Harper’s trip to Afghanistan, because it won’t last long.
For those that have missed the Emerson thing…
http://www.cbc.ca/story/canada/national/2006/03/13/emerson-vandalism-060313.html
Kind of a crappy deal if you asked me.
tlh
What a way to have to go through life.
I sincerely feel sorry for you,man!
You don’t even make a respectable troll.
tomax,
Do you actually have anything to say?
Johan…obviously you don’t read well…
Email to Paul Bourque today:
“Subject: Harper’s afgan trip
Mr. Bourque:
Your headline “Harper sneaks into Afghanistan” was a gross misrepresentation of the story and the facts; it was demeaning to you and to those who read it. You ought to be ashamed of yourself.”
Email reply FROM Bourque:
Sent: Monday, March 13, 2006 12:55 PM
Subject: Re: Harper’s afgan trip
“Bruce, what nonsense, get a grip. What were you expecting, that he be piped in with a marching band and pom-pom cheerleaders ? He was snuck into the country. Period. Next time, hit the delete button before you fire off such foolish emails to people. Nitwit. – p”
Email reply TO Bourque:
“Well of course he went there unannounced, that’s basic common sense.
Apparently you were unable to grasp the point of my email, which is in writing the “headline”, you placed a negative and incorrect spin on the news story, which is not only immature, it is intellectually dishonest.
Got it now? Or should I use simpler language?”
Hmmmm, now I know why he cancelled the comments section on his website.
I’d like to extend my sympathy to the MSM in Canada. They really have their work cut out for them. I mean they have the really difficult task of making everything PM Harper and the Conservatives are doing into something negative that should be feared by all Canadians, and he goes out and does something like this!
I mean how do you spin this bad? How can they waste there time talking about the PM’s visit to Afghanistan when they have an important story like the Emerson floor-crossing to drag out, for what the fifth week?
Yeah, I think we should all stay up tonight and think of ideas to help them with their quest, poor guys, if they don’t have something bad to say about PM Harper the only thing left is something good, we just can’t let that happen!
everybody e-mail, Mansbridge and the boys with your ideas. Thanks.
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Fox News ^ | 03/13/2006
Posted on 03/13/2006 2:10:20 PM PST by tsmith130
Just heard of Fox News Alert…no other details
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1595752/posts
The answer is 2003, Cretien visited Troops in Kabul.
It doesn’t really matter though. He wasn’t anywhere near as forthright in his support of the CF. Did you know Cretien didn’t step into National Defence Headquarters once in 10 years, and it’s only 1000 meters Southwest of Parliament Hill.
Liberals, can’t live with them… Not allowed to shoot ’em
Harper could debate this in Ottawa and win the debate by simply making it a motion of confidence. If it looses, the Government dissolves and we’re into another election. The Liberals would vote with the Tories to avoid another election and the troops would have a clear committment from the Government. Boom!
Bruce,
A whole bunch of us have stopped visiting Bourques site as all he does now is put a slanted headline to someone else’s work and then beg for money.
Believe he stopped the comments section because he was getting absolutely hammered with negative feedback(it was quite amazing to witness actually).
I will not even”pop by”his site anymore and give him the satisfaction of a”hit”.
His reply to you speaks loudly of the total lack of class he has.
Should there ever be a debate in parliment I hope it involves a stint of at least ten years or more as a committment. This shows whole hearted unwavering support. These piddly nine month stints simply gives the Taliban an incentive to create enough havock in the interim to try to discourage further involvement. If I were in the Talibans shoes, with a ten year committment by the various nations, I’d be inclined to move on and find somewhere else to settle.
It would be nice to see some ”support the troops’ banners on Canadian blogs.if a dumbass like me can make one i’m sure other wiser folks can come up with something that doesn’t look to bad.c.j.g.of eroticalee
http://images.google.ca/images?q=chretien+helmet&btnG=Search&svnum=10&hl=en&lr=
Da Canadian values helmet de Chretien: Duceppe slipped in in the netdehair, la.
For the idiots posting here applauding the trashing of Emerson’s office, or condemning Harper for putting aside politics to use the talents of this guy, let me just say that Vancouver’s Olympics is well on the way to being as bad as Montreal for the debt about to be incurred. David Emerson, prior to being an MP, was a highly regarded businessman and his skill and expertise in bringing the Olympics to BC with a modicum of debt will be greatly appreciated. I’m in Vancouver and this guy is quite simply a situational Tory – he’ll be used and discarded when the time comes. He could have simply said he crossed the floor in disgust at the Dingwall deal, and that would have been legit. THose who continue to see his appointment as a problem are the same people who believe people living in tents in front of city hall, giving free heroin to junkies and nice clean crack pipes to crackheads is perfectly legit and indeed commendable. Glad Harper realized Emerson’s talent and Emerson flipped the bird to those idiots who can’t see how he’d rather actually work for his MP pension that adorn the backbenches of the opposition party until the next election. He really is too decent to be a Liberal anyway.
First off: A job well done today Candace! over the 100 hit!(I have been here a couple times today….)
Maz2: After the day of watching the media spin in every direction re: Prime Minister Harper, thank you for the link with JC and his helmet on backwards! That was exactly what I needed! Something to laugh at.
I agree with y’all on Bourque, did he really say that Harper “snuck into Afghanistan”?…his headlines were pathetically anti-Harper during the election, I quit visiting, and I found NealeNews instead, a much more professional layout, and simply a topnotch news gatherer….not a front to sell poor art and beg for donations.
Oh yes and to stay on topic….way to go Mr. Harper and all the best to our brave troops in Afghanistan…no one is more deserving of the recognition by a great Canadian leader!!
Bourque lost me because of those headlines as well. No hits from my computer. HAHAHAHA!
As for all the lefties the idea of sending them out to find landmines is a GREAT IDEA!!!
CBCpravda has already dropped the story as the headline.It has gone to the sidebar but really they are just little snippets of complaints that the journalists cant accompany him on tour.
when are they going to toast this f’d up crown corportation???
Canadian Observer?
A whole bunch of us have stopped visiting Bourques site as all he does now is put a slanted headline to someone else’s work and then beg for money.
Believe he stopped the comments section because he was getting absolutely hammered with negative feedback(it was quite amazing to witness actually).
I will not even”pop by”his site anymore and give him the satisfaction of a”hit”.
His reply to you speaks loudly of the total lack of class he has.
I noticed a while back that Bourque seemed to morph from “aggregator” to “aggravator” and have quit linking to him or even visiting… glad I’m not the only one.
Back on-topic, I’m pleased my Canadian neighbors seem to have chosen a good man for their leader. Way to go.
Laytons behind the back activity reminds me of Trudeau in the 1980 Iran Hostage crisis. whilst American diplomats were being hidden in the Canadian embassy Pierre Elliot Trudeau kept hammering away at Joe Clark about policy in Iran while Clark was trying to evade the subject to make good on an escape plan. Clark took him aside and explained the situation, after which Trudeau cooled the questions but didnt change the subject making for an exasperating question period for Clark. Anyway , Layton is just as big of a backstabbing traitor.
Cant figure why Clark still supported the Liberals and they him when it came to his final top up year on his pension??It was the unholy alliance of the rainbow coolition and the Liberals stepping out of Calgary Centre that assured his victory. the type of victory that hot cross hedy would be proud of.
Bourque has also dropped the biggest story of the year from his webpage.
I can’t believe how there are those who will try and tear down our Prime Minister at every turn.
“Mr. Jack, the thrust of the mission in Afghanistan is to secure freedom, democracy and human rights. This may include the ‘human right’ of same sex marriage.”
Nevermind the right to marriage, how about just the right to not be stoned to death for being gay…
tlh, re: “doesn’t even come close to making up for all of the broken campaign promises, and the session hasn’t even started yet.”
Like you said, the session hasn’t even started yet, so WTF does your little mind expect???
That Harper would single-handedly, without Parliaments’ involvement, start cramming everything down your throat?????
The backdrops in the CTV reports says it all. Harper with the troops in the wind-blown desert making a difference. Meanwhile, Jack comfortably surrounded by his lovely books back home bitching for a debate and pandering to his base.
The imagery speaks volumes.
Re: Pierre Bourque Newswatch
So, he cancelled the comments section all together – hmmm. Last couple of times I logged into his comments page, I was notified that I was “Banned from making comments”. I guess he didn’t like my comment where I blasted him over his silly slanted headlines.
I have slanted and biased headlines on my site, but then I run a partisan website, not one masquerading as a general news site.
Re: Smile’n Jack and Canadian troop deployment.
Jack, grow up and be a leader!
If you hadn’t been so busy last year sucking Paul Martin’s tit, you might have had time to debate the troop deployment to Afghanistan when the decision was made by the Liberal government. Your actions now are dispicable. Suck it up and support the troops.
it was pretty to watch . on cbc politics jason kenny stole alexa mcdonoughs vaaleeews line . then he explained what canadian valeeews really were . damn she was speechless for almost four minutes . it was awesome . i loved it . fine work jason , mighty fine
The media dropped the story, when they realized that the country doesn’t want to be there and this was just a cpc publicity stunt using troops. Too bad it cost all that $ to fly the fat guy.
Get osama and the drug lords and cut out. We’re not there to build schools. The original thing wasn’t to get rid of the Taliban…they were warned to hand over osama. They didn’t so the people got bombed for 3 weeks. All kinds of deals were made with warlords to carve up the country, while they stopped at tora bora and 1600 days later osama’s still there and the mission reasons keep getting added to.
The difference between a (near) one-day story and not…
if it shows the PM in a positive light, it is a one-day story
if it shows the PM in a negative light, it is the Energizer-Bunny story.
Liberal$/Librano$ and their “manure”. +
VANCOUVER – Two men are under arrest in Vancouver in connection with an attack on the constituency office of Conservative cabinet minister � and ex-Liberal MP � David Emerson. In the overnight attack, manure was smeared on the front door and the outside wall of the office in Vancouver. It was also left along the sidewalk outside the office. (CBC) +
OTTAWA – Taxpayers are picking up the tab for more than $1.3 million in legal fees to help Jean Chr�tien and two top aides, Jean Pelletier and Jean Carle, defend their actions in the sponsorship affair, government documents show. (Ottawa Citizen) +
primetimecrime.com
The bullshit protestors are finally using real bullshit. Yay! The metaphor is the message.
Now all we need is the protestors to start hanging banners from hot air balloons. Or to protest from chairs since they don’t have a leg to stand on…
So, I’m sitting here…watching the “The National” and their “coverage” of PMSH’s visit to Afghanistan. Right after they have Jack the Weasel’s comment about the need for debate, they show Ujjal Dosanjh (how the hell did he get the position of “Defence Critic”?) pretty much echoing the Weasel’s comments. Have I got this right? The Liberano’s are now saying there’s a need for debate on our soldiers being there? Sure, I would expect them to try to jump on the Conservatives at any reasonable chance…but this level of hypocrisy seems extreme even for them.
On another line of thought. Has it occurred to anyone else that we seem to have become a nation of over-sensitive woosies when it comes to war and casualties? Back when those four soldiers were killed by the American F-15, I remember the constant coverage (for about 2-3 weeks straight, it seemed like it was the top news story). And even with the recent coverage surrounding Cpl Wilson. It just seems excessive.
Now don’t get me wrong. I have the highest respect for the men and women of our services who put themselves in harms way. The fact that they do this…and that they sometimes pay the ultimate price makes it so that they deserve the highest level of honor and respect from us.
What bugs me about it is the way that the MSM does its coverage. Everytime a soldier is killed, the MSM seems to go to great lengths to get “statements” from grieving relatives. Then, there are all of those “new polls” assessing whether or not Canadians soldiers should still be in Afghanistan. Are they reporting the issues or trying to create them?
If the death of soldiers in a war zone is reason enough to abandon the war effort, then what the hell is the point of having a military? This all makes me think that the modern-day Canada wouldn’t have lasted two days in either world war.
steve in bc
This is what’s really bugging you LibDippers:
This columnist for CBC thinks PMHarper won big with the Afgan trip’
http://www.cbc.ca/news/viewpoint/vp_zolf/20060313.html
And that’s why I voted for him. At last we have a P.M.who has the guts to make us feel proud to be a Canadian.
Canada from sea to sea to sea.
Nice to see Jack Layton playing to the children of the nanny state. Pass the pablum, please.
Stephen Harper on the other hand talks to adults like they actually are adults. No wonder the lefties are all in a tizzy.
I can’t believe how there are those who will try and tear down our Prime Minister at every turn.
Well, Platty, we are a few years ahead of you south of the border….Harper is is going to suffer Bush Derangement Syndrome. The MSM wienies and lefties pander it.
Any male with a spine or whiff of testosterone will be nailed by the sniveling Burqa clad cross-dressers in the press and the elite moonbats in academia.
The little lefty weasels recently kicked Mark Steyn off the British Telegraph and the Spectator – too much testosterone for the elitist girlie boys. Playing both ends into the middle – censoring the cartoons and it’s critics both – the idiots have positioned themselves into oblivion. Good for humanity.
There were many little elitist creeps in France that accommodated Hitler. History repeats.
Zolf: “Suddenly,to the surprise of myself and all Canadians…”
Were you asleep, Zolf? Not out of the blue. Oh, wait… blue is the colour of the Conservative Party, right? Look here:
Advance teams on the ground in Afghanistan planning Harper visit with troops
ALEXANDER PANETTA
OTTAWA (CP) – Security teams are in Afghanistan and Pakistan laying the groundwork for a visit by Prime Minister Stephen Harper to one of the world’s most dangerous spots, The Canadian Press has learned.
http://www.recorder.ca/cp/National/060224/n022423A.html +
Zolf:
Stephen Harper’s out-of-the-blue visit to Afghanistan is the Conservative leader playing politics in his most brilliant stroke as prime minister since January’s federal election win.
Suddenly, to the surprise of myself and all Canadians, Harper is in Afghanistan to witness the situation in the war-torn country first hand.
…
Harper’s visit to Afghanistan is his way of telling the Americans that Canada will not run and hide, and chicken out as Jean Chretien did in the war in Iraq. Harper does not have to put Canadian soldiers in Afghanistan; Canadian troops are already there, and that’s where they will stay.
His visit is also his guarantee to American allies that Canada supports their efforts in the war in Iraq. It’s attracting enormous media attention, sending all the right signals to Bush about Canada’s attitude about the war against terror.
Harper is definitely part of the American alliance and is overwhelmingly eager to say so openly.
By supporting the fight in Afghanistan, Harper is also taking the sting out of Canada’s disagreements with the Americans over softwood lumber and Arctic sovereignty, and telling Bush and the Americans that Canada is their closest ally.
On the home front, the Afghanistan visit is so dramatic that it makes the ethics commissioner’s investigation into former Liberal David Emerson’s leap to the Conservatives, to join Harper’s cabinet after January’s federal election, look infantile and silly.
Harper is a pro-Quebec, pro-U.S., pro-military leader the likes of which Canada has never seen before. His Afghanistan move is great theatre and great politics, and will make it hard for the opposition parties to stop Harper from getting his agenda through Parliament.
Undoubtedly, victory at the polls will be the ultimate result of Harper’s mission to the war-torn country. +
http://www.cbc.ca/news/viewpoint/vp_zolf/20060313.html
hey steve in bc:
congrats on contributing the stupidest comment to this thread (so far)
you said
“Get osama and the drug lords and cut out. We’re not there to build schools. The original thing wasn’t to get rid of the Taliban…”
You want us to get out of Afghanistan? Well can we at least finish the things that you yourself claim we were there to do in the firt place? As you said Osamas still out there, the drug lords are still there, and if we left now then guess what, the Taliban will be back in a heart beat.
The “original thing” was to eliminate a radical faction in a country that had become a safe haven, breeding ground, training, and financing facility for jihadist terrorists! Thats why the US went to war in Afghanistan, thats why most of the world and the UN agree that it is a legitimate war!
And yeah we were there to build schools, one of our main reasons for being there has been to support rebuilding infrastructure. I get the feeling that you don’t care too much for this war, well how about the people of Afghanistan? Do you care about them? Or should we pack our bags and let the country decend into chaos for another 2 decades?
You say the media dropped the story “when they realized that the country doesn’t want to be there and this was just a cpc publicity stunt using troops” I don’t think the MSM polling reveals that Canadians don’t want to be there. I think it shows that Canadians don’t know enough about why we’re there. We’re there for good and noble reasons. The media should be doing its job to educate the public as to those reasons, instead of trying to turn this into “Canada’s Iraq”
As for this being a publicity stunt, I’m truly sorry, although not surprised, that after years of mediocre leadership in this country, you don’t know what to think of a real leader. It must be some kind of trick, or stunt, PM harper couldn’t possibly be there to show support for our troops right? Man how cynical your worldview must be. Ask the troops how used they feel! I gaurenty they are all genuinely excited to have a PM that actually cares about the important job they are risking their lives to achieve.
give yer head a shake man!
ryan…this is recent history or the same war that began ages ago…
The demands read:
1. Deliver to United States authorities all of the leaders of Al Qaeda who hide in your land.
2. Release all foreign nationals, including American citizens you have unjustly imprisoned.
3. Protect foreign journalists, diplomats and aid workers in your country.
4. Close immediately and permanently every terrorist training camp in Afghanistan. And hand over every terrorist and every person and their support structure to appropriate authorities.
5. Give the United States full access to terrorist training camps, so we can make sure they are no longer operating.
These demands relate exclusively to shutting down terrorist training camps and protecting foreigners in Afghanistan. There was posturing before these demands about how awful the situation in Afghanistan is, how oppressed the people are, and how everybody respects the people of Afghanistan, but when the demands are actually listed, the rights and liberties of those people are absent. None of the demands even mentions the ordinary people in Afghanistan. Neither is ‘regime change’ mentioned, nor for that matter is democracy.
This supports the argument that overthrowing the Taliban was not the major pupose of the invasion.
The ultimatum to the Taliban, their refusal to comply in handing over bin Laden, the previous collapse of the Northern Alliance as they were pushed hundreds of miles northward and then their leader Massoud assassinated by al Qa’ida two days before 9/11 – this led to the bombing, ground war, flimsy government of warlord/tribal cheifs, poppy crops again, and the instability that we seem to have no plan for what the hell is the victory.
clean streets, good schools…they’re closing schools here in Canada.
I have just spent the most enlightening two hours of my life,(which is going to be 73 years this month), when I logged on today. First I went to a blog a friend suggested, called rabblerousers or something to that effect. I was sickened to realize that these were mostly Canadian. Then I returned to my favorite blog: I have never been more hopeful for the future of Canada, at least since PET was negotiating to socialize us to the point where we would all live the pact of Orwell. As a ten year serviceman 1950-1960, I was totally disgusted in the direction Canada has followed since then. Maybe now we can have some sort of chance at a future.
clean streets, good schools…they’re closing schools here in Canada
When demographics change as in lower birthrates, schools close. No brainer. No problem.
“clean streets”
Duh?? Channeling Mary Poppins?? Hello!!! No cleaning up after themselves by the death-to-you-and-yours local Islamofascist cartoon protestors? How wretched. (It’s not a very tidy world right now. Last thought on my mind.) Or perpetuating some Canadian stereotype?
What’s with the “clean streets” mandate?
I’ve always been proud to be a Canadian, but unfortunately, until now had always been ashamed of our federal government. Today, for the first time in my life (41 years), I am also proud of my government.
BRAVO PMSH !
As for Jack Layton, his comments this past weekend were disgusting.
once again steve in bc:
you said among the list of demands
“Close immediately and permanently every terrorist training camp in Afghanistan.”
Exactly how “permanent” would the closure of every terrorist camp in Afghanistan be, if the Taliban was to remain in control of the country? Not very. Even if every single terrorist in Afghanistan had been dealt with, but the Taliban was allowed to remain in control, Afghanistan would soon be over run with terrorist once again. Therefore overthrowing the Taliban was part of the original plan.
Also, you propose that the rights and liberties of Afghans were not important considerations because they were not mentioned in the list of demands. Would you really insist that your enemy treat its own people better as part of your stipulations to prevent war? Furthermore, there is and has always been a goal in this war to reduce the environmental breeding grounds for terrorist. This is done specifically through regime change, promoting democracy, increasing individual freedoms, and raising qaulity of life.
Also, any good strategy needs to be flexible, theres nothing wrong with amending the original plan if it helps you accomplish your goals. And a plan is really just a best guess anyway, there are bound to be situations that arrise and need to be dealt with along the way. Thats just the reality of war. Anyway its called the “big picture” steve.
That’s all I’m going to say, I don’t want to contribute to anymore nonsense.
Well, to be honest, Chretien did visit the troops in Kabul on October 18, 2003. But he only stayed for four hours. Which was in keeping with what the previous regime’s policy on the military was: as little involvement and support as necessary.
“A meee-la-tareee? Dat is not ‘ow ceevilized peee-poles deal with terror-eests!”
I would like to add my YAY HARPER to the comments. Like so many others I am hopefull and optomistic for the first time in a long time. Harper is right to tell troops, and the world, not to believe polls/media, they are definately skewed. We are the silent majority no longer!