Oh here comes the ugliness. The purpose of a military is war, yes and sad fact is sometimes war is necessary. The ignorance of some people is also a sad fact. Ye get my meanin.
You got that right! :smile:
Oh here comes the ugliness. The purpose of a military is war, yes and sad fact is sometimes war is necessary. The ignorance of some people is also a sad fact. Ye get my meanin.
There are a lot of people who held Jack up as the last honest politician. I didn't see it that way at all. I saw him as conniving, underhanded and out of his league, but I still kind of liked him. Personally, his chest pounding regarding prisoner abuse in Afghanistan was what I found very unsavory. It showed me that he was willing to throw our soldiers under the bus for political points. When that abuse claim proved to be unfounded I don't remember him getting out front and retracting his accusations. For me that was pretty personal, not just because of my service, but because both my kid and my brothers kid are serving veterans of that war.
Still, when he was hit by this 2nd bout of cancer I was taken off guard and when he died I was sad. His politics and his tactics made him anything but a Saint. Those who now wait in the wings ready to jump on anyone who is critical of Jack Layton remind me somewhat of the zealots who, after 911, were at the ready when anyone questioned the policy of the Bush Administration.
Well....looky looky..... so the only reason good ole taliban jack was against Afghanistan was to garner votes. Cause there's no way a politician could have any ideals of their own. No way brother. It's all about suckerin the votin public. Especially if yer talkin about a sacred cow like the armed forces. And prisoner mistreatment, well that's just an asinine accusation, cause the Canadian Armed Forces has NEVER mistreated prisoners in their care. Never....nope...Never..... and if ya'll say they have, well it's a god damn lie and yer nothin but a terrorist sympathizer, and you obviously are lookin at just want'n ta tear apart this great Country.
What a load of horse shyte!
The reaction was to the stupidity of the statements. Layton was not the only person in Canada that that was against the war. Layton wasn't the only person in Canada that didn't like what they were hearing was going on over their. But as a sitting MP and the voice of his constituents (at least) in Parliament he put those concerns onto the public record. He did his fu cking job.
Layton was not the only person in Canada
Sorry, making unfounded accusations is not doing your job. Jack was against the war from the beginning, I can respect his position on that, but what I can't respect is slandering someone without the facts.
The whole fiasco was pure theatrics. Something the NDP has always been masterful at. Svend Robinson comes to mind.
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Not sure what your driving at here. Are they all going to be getting state funerals as well.
He asked for answers. Something many Canadians wanted. This is what we are hearing, is this true? If so, what are you going to do about it Mr. Prime Minister. He was doing his fu cking job. What he was elected and paid to do. As an opposition MP part of his job was to keep the governments feet to the fire.
As for the state funeral, any sitting MP may be given a state funeral.
I have decided that from now on I am going to ignore you completely. When I see your name, I will skip the post completely. You have not once added something constructive to any discussion. I'm tempted to say quite a few other things but will not. You aren't worth my time or effort.
I must say I take slight offence at the implication that any grief I have shown is "fake" or not real. I imagine many others would too. If you don't get it, that's one thing. Accusing others of faking it is quite another thing. For those of us who either shared Jack's beliefs or had a chance to meet him this was big shock and is a loss as he will no longer be there. I didn't particularly care when Michael Jackson died, but I did not question the grief of those who mourned him, for whatever reason. It's quite difficult, if not impossible to fake the mourning of someone's death.
Easy enough. Put him on your ignore list. You won't see anything he posts unless someone else quotes him
Just get Mulcair in there and we can put this teddy bear to bed.
Thomas Mulcair's plot to take over the NDP exposed! Madness ensues. - YouTube
Oh GOOD!
Yeah....let's put Mulcair in as Leader of Her Majesty's Loyal Opposition.......
Do we get The Lone Gunmen too????
Oh, it is gonna be a FUN 4 years!!!!
It's okay. Layton says Hi from NDP heaven - where all NDP'ers go. It's a land of uninterrupted harmonious equality and social justice.
Yep, as long as you don't deviate from the intensive, all-hours activity program, think anything not on the Approved Thoughts list, or say anything unapproved by the HHRC (Heavenly Human Rights Council).
Heaven to the NDP, Hell to any thinking human being.
Forgive the hateful. They have only themselves to blame - and they're always so perfect
Teddy Bear grief... interesting term for it Mark.
We've all seen it with celeb deaths, but have you ever had the good fortune of witnessing it with someone you know? When my grandfather passed away, my cousins all bawled their eyes out at his funeral. We all hated the man, hell, I smiled watching him die, yet there they were acting like he wasn't a holy terror who damaged all our lives in one way or another.