“Because having seen what Hussein had done the Kurds the correct reaction was to further enable to Hussein regime?”
Heh – “You know that’s what I was thinking , what we need in politics in Canaduh is a politician that spent 30 years in the US teaching “human rights” who’s honest enough to admit “that upon serious reconsideration, and a house in Toronto, they’ve discovered they’re perfectly OK with gassing minorities.”
Typical Liberal. Flappin in the wind. Count Iggy will say and do anything to realize his “destiny.”
And let’s all hope he is as successfull in realizing his “destiny” as Prince Paul was.
These ideas arent new….he mentioned them going into the Liberal leadership. It has just taken some time for him to finally implement the unloading of the loadstone.
I admire a politician who can geneuinely analyze a situation and say, well you know we got it wrong and here is what we learned and why we wont get it wrong again.
This isnt the case. This is about him staying up with the party and making sure the big negative that prevented him from winning last time wont stop him when Dion goes down in flames.
Thats fine, Cons will win a majority, you may laugh but Quebec will turn come election day.
How old is Iggy? He will run only if it is a minority.
ANything other than that and it turns into Himbo Kennedy winning the leadership.
Now while the rest of the left wing intelligentsia are starting to ponder the embarrassment of their “The War is Lost” meme in the face the apparent success of the ‘Surge’, Iggy is faced with explaining how being right was wrong, being wrong is right, and being wrong is wrong.
If he had just waited for a month, he might have enjoyed the rare luxury of explaining right is right.
Iggy was simply having a John Kerry moment: He was FOR the invasion before he was AGAINST it.
Classic liberal doublespeak. Don’t speak for truth’s sake, speak for political expediency.
He’s a hypocrite.
John,
You forgot the reality of the situation that left is right.
Falling into the leftist lock step is what the Liberal Party claims is consensus.
There are no free thinkers in government, there are no big thinkers in government. There is a low common denominator and Iggy just fell down to it.
I call that scary.
“Too few politicians are willing to admit to being wrong.”
You know that’s what I was thinking , what we need in politics in Canaduh is a politician that spent 30 years in the US teaching “human rights” who’s honest enough to admit “that upon serious reconsideration, and a house in Toronto, they’ve discovered, they’re perfectly OK with gassing minorities.”
Iggy for President of Canaduh
No surprise in this!
All liberals are full of crap and given the opportunity will spread it copiously!
Rich that is the comment of the week.
OMMAG, If what you say is true, then the Lib ilk must be stopped!! I read here, on sda, that all crap spreading must be stopped (organic farming – BAD for the agenda of the Deyawn pipples). The Liberanos must use sythetic crap or they will distroy the earth with greenhose gazzes.
I think we can all agree that supporting the Iraq war can be compared to getting a spiderweb tattoo on one’s neck at age seventeen. Seems like a good idea at the time, but what are people going to think of you 5, 20, and 50 years from now?
Your judgement is severely condemned and it will henceforth be difficult to take seriously the opinion of a warblogger on any matter of importance.
That would be ‘grin-ouse gazzes’, Jemma. Hate to be a stickler, but….
“I think we can all agree that supporting the war against Hitler and Germany can be compared to getting a spiderweb tattoo on one’s neck at age seventeen. Seems like a good idea at the time, but what are people going to think of you 5, 20, and 50 years from now?
Your judgement is severely condemned by all of us who believe in what Chamberlain’s White Paper has accomplished, and it will henceforth be difficult to take seriously the opinion of a warblogger on any matter of importance.”
“Peace in our time!!!!”
andrew – you are logically fallacious – in your ‘appeal to the mob’. No, WE can’t all agree that supporting the Iraq war is a juvenile act.
I support the Iraq War, and I support the current Iraq construction of a democracy. And I’m not an idiot or juvenile. And I’m not appealing to any mob or ‘majority’ to support my conclusion.
richfisher – perfect. Ignatieff is obviously trying to drum up votes. This doesn’t always succeed. Remember his attempt,when he was running for Liberal leader, to get the Quebec vote, by delclaring that ‘Quebec is a nation’ – and Duceppe and Harper’s reactions?
Gee where’s Ted Cerberus when you need him?
Off milking himself I would guess.
Gosh … the sarcasm is really getting thick! 😉
Is there anything of substance left of the Liberal Party?
We know Dion, so far, is as close to a Dud as he can get and stay in politics.
Iggy is acting like the quintessential professor with his rambling musings, doesn’t seem to have anything that resembles a Political Leader.
Then we have Boob Rae and Verbal Diarrhea twins, Kennedy and Martha Hall-Findlay as their other top possibilities.
Looks like they have some hard slogging ahead, but we can’t discount them, all that’s needed to bowl over the Canadian voters is flash and dash, worked for Liberals for decades, but they’ll have to find Flash and Dash.
If Gerard Kennedy, otherwise known as ignoramus interruptus, is still considered to be a top possibilty for Liberal leader, they’ve got more problems coming their way than they have now.
I didn’t think that at one time but he has shown us the real goods on the Duffy Show many times.
We’re cursing future generations with our waste. Dittersdorf’s slide showing New Yorkers’ annual garbage output-15 square blocks, 20 stories high-looked frightening because the trash was sitting, uncompressed, in the middle of the city.
But consider a different perspective-a national, long-term perspective. A. Clark Wiseman, an economist at Gonzaga University in Spokane, Wash., has calculated that if Americans keep generating garbage at current rates for 1,000 years, and if all their garbage is put in a landfill 100 yards deep, by the year 3000 this national garbage heap will fill a square piece of land 35 miles on each side.
This doesn’t seem a huge imposition in a country the size of America.
Source: Recycling Is Garbage
http://www.williams.edu/HistSci/curriculum/101/garbage.html
So..a thousand years of garbage …only covers an area 35 miles by 35 miles by 100 yards deep.
And if it still pains you to think of depriving posterity of that 35-mile square, remember that the loss will be only temporary. Eventually, like previous landfills, the mounds of trash will be covered with grass and become a minuscule addition to the nation’s 150,000 square miles of parkland.
oops wrong thread..!
I think we can all agree that supporting the Iraq war can be compared to getting a spiderweb tattoo on one’s neck at age seventeen.
I think we can all agree that Andrew is counting his chickens before they’ve hatched and, interestingly, even as they are getting colder by the day and less and less attended.
Andrews comment calls his judgment into question.
Oh I wouldn’t really criticize Ignatieff or the other liberals. After all they only come from the “proof is a proof is a proof” school of Cretonite poly-sci. And remember, in liberalesque, if it is a proof then it has been proven. Or failing that: “if… if… what if? If my mother had wheels she’d be a truck!!
The Liberals great white franco hope is Justin Trudeau. Flash and dashing. Amazing what a eulogy will do but mark my words he will become the next Liberal Prime Minister…and with a big fat majority. Oh the horror of it all.
Oh, I wouldn’t be so critical of Ignatieff and the other Liberal packrats. Afterall, they have to live up to that Creton (sic)poly-sci “proof is a proof is a proof” legacy. Remember if it is a proof then it has been proven. Or failing that: “if…if..what if.. if my mother had wheels she’d be a truck.” I have proof!
Flash and dashing? Oh they have found it. The next Liberal great white franco hope will be Justin Trudeau. Mark my words, once the lube oil in the liberal machinery is changed and its fundamental parts greased, he will win the Liberal leadership and become the next Liberal Prime Minister – with a big fat Central and Eastern Canadian majority. Amazing what a eulogy can do for someone. Oh the horror of it all!
Hey!
Honoured, thanks, again.
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Comment to Ann; regarding peace in our time. A white paper never stopped a bullet fired by an evil person. Chamberlain’s weakness was that he was a religious Unitarian who denied the orthodox Christian doctrine of original sin. He thought Adolf was a man who could be reasoned with; a man with whom he could make a deal. Unfortunatly for all of those so deluded to think that education or reason or bribery can thwart the designs of evil men Chamberlain’s policy led to the ruin of Czechoslovakia and hastened the beginnings of World War 2. Such delusions are still quite prelavent these days, mostly in the fairy land existence of liberalism.
Comment to Ann; regarding peace in our time. A white paper never stopped a bullet fired by an evil person. Chamberlain’s weakness was that he was a religious Unitarian who denied the orthodox Christian doctrine of original sin. He thought Adolf was a man who could be reasoned with; a man with whom he could make a deal. Unfortunatly for all of those so deluded to think that education or reason or bribery can thwart the designs of evil men Chamberlain’s policy led to the ruin of Czechoslovakia and hastened the beginnings of World War 2. Such delusions are still quite prelavent these days, mostly in the fairy land existence of liberalism.
Clair voyant: “Gerard Kennedy, otherwise known as ignoramus interruptus”, love it! He has a verbal diarrhea twin in Martha Hall-Findlay who has a problem with interuptus on occasion. So much to say and so little time.
Let ’em keep talkin’ their way to oblivion.
“Count Iggy”, count him out, PLEASE.