Yeah, let's be honest. Guess that takes care of the rest of your post.
We did have soldiers in Iraq courtesy of the Liberals. Harper was fighting to have them better equiped.
That was as part of the regular exchange program between the US and Canadian military. While those soldiers should have been brought home immediately, Harper would have had more Canadian soldiers there, as many as he could find...cannon fodder in George Bush's illegal war for oil.
The fact of the matter is the US doesn't need us.
The fact is that the US very badly wanted us to sign on to political legitimacy to their plans to start a new arms race and put weapons in space. That's why Georgie and (Skank for me) Condi Rice were so pissed off.
By pissing off the Americans, now we will have no say as to what goes on within that program.
We wouldn't have had any say anyway. Anybody over the age of six knows that.
Why do you think it's taken so long for the borders to open for our cattle?
Because Martin is afraid to play hardball and tie trade issues to energy. Harper is even worse on that front. It was his party that scuttled attempts to fine US meat packers for contempt of parliament after they took money meant to help farmers and shipped it south...just another corporate profit.
The Liberals have backed out of Kyoto.
The Liberals have done poorly on Kyoto. It's a good example of why I never vote for them. They did ratify it though, so now we have to meet the targets or pay the price. The Conservatives will simply pay the price and then they'll pay the polluters to pollute some more. The Liberals may be ineffective, but the Conservatives are luddite morons so busy denying the science in the name of greed that they cannot even consider the implications of their stupidity.
Integrating our army with the US is a pipedream.
Go look at the Conservative platform. If it's a pipedream, then Harper is on crack. He wants the equipment and systems to be more compatible with the US so we can help them out instead working in a multi-lateral forum like the UN.
Our economies are already integrated. 80% of our exports end up in the US. How much more integrated can we get?
The easy answer would be 20%. The reality of Harper's platform is that he would do nothing that might anger the Bushites in the least, but would stand with Bush as he alienated the rest of the world.
No party other than the NDP and maybe the Green promote this.
The Alliance used to promote it. Can you say flip-flop? The Conservatives know that they will never have enough of the popular vote to force their insane plans down our throats. They like to yark about democratic deficits, but they are afraid to do anything about them. All they really care about is shifting the power to Alberta.
They have the guts to stand up for what they believe is best for the country,
They have no guts at all. They crawl to their corporate masters and kneel in front of George Bush.
That remark was made because of his soft to non stance on child pornography.
That remark was made because the Conservatives proposed legislation that was defeated in the House. The reason that legislation was defeated was that it was insane. It would have effectively banned classic works of arts and literature. It would have put parents who snapped pictures of their kids in the tub in danger of being persecuted (I used that word advisedly). It would have made open and frank discussions of teen sexuality illegal, making sex education a joke. It would have made open and frank discussion about the acts of pedophilia illegal, making it difficult to honestly address a very real problem. It was bad and stupid legislation, so it was voted into the trash bin where it belonged.
Harper was called far worse.
He earned it. It made me good to call him those things. Still does.
