So you are lying again. The Republican party is not in the process of turning the US into a theocracy even after 8 years of power. So your comparison of the CPC doing the same is ridiculous.
Have yopu been paying no attention whatsoever to what has been happening in the US? Bush's faith-based decision and religious leanings have been a major issue since the day he took power.
You already know that though, since you don't live in a cave. You are a liar.
I explained to you that I was exaggerating to make a point just as you did with the CPC turning Canada into a theocracy. There is just as much of a probability that the CPC will turn Canada into a theocracy as the NDP will turn Canada into a communist state. None.
See, in your attempts to hide the truth you are trying to put words into my mouth. I never said Harper would turn Canada into a theocracy, I said he would do away with the separation of church and state. We've seen this happen in the US. Church groups getting federal money, religious theories being presented as science, scientific theories being ignored, sound medical principles being over-ridden by religious belief including in aid packages to non-Christian countries, human rights being trumped by right-wing Christian beliefs.
Canada does not need to go that route, but it is where Harper would take us.
U.N. officials say the death toll in the troubled Congo is among the worst in the world, and that fighting in the African country's east could challenge efforts to hold elections this year.
Like I said, it's an ongoing process. There are elections slated though, a major step, and things are far better than they were a few months ago.
There are lots of other examples too. Who even put Sudan on the agenda? The UN. Who has an AIDS/TB/malaria program to fight disease? The UN.
You'd rather attack them for not stopping wars immediately? Guess what? The UN does not have a military force. The Security Council, including the USA, decides what military actions are taken. The UN has no direct control over that.
They had no direct control over OFF either. The Security Council did. UN people went directly to the US and told them of corruption within the program...there are official reports. The US decided to do nothing. Bush liked OFF so much that he asked the UN to keep it going for a year or so after his illegal invasion. Bush loved it right up until a BBC reporter cajoled Annan into admitting that the US invasion of Iraq was illegal. All of a sudden the witch hunt was on.
You missed all of that though.
I'm not evading anything much less the truth. You put words in my mouth and pass them off as facts. Where have I stated that the US marines are my heros or that I even support the war in the ME. I don't even support the war in Afghanistan yet Canadian soldiers are dying there thanks to Paul Martin.
You are supporting a party that would have sent troops to Iraq if we had any to spare. You are supporting a politician who wrote an open letter to the United States apologising for our refusal to participate in an illegal war that was based on lies. You are supporting a politician who would unquestioningly follow the US into their next illegal military adventure.
If you don't support those things, then you are supporting the wrong party.
Now you're going to follow up with the canned response of Harper would have us in Iraq which is purely hypothetical but you will pass it off as factual. Either way, whether a Canadian is dying in Afghanistan or Iraq, the grieving familes don't feel any different.
It is not at all hypothetical. Harper said that we should have been in Iraq shoulder to shoulder with the US and Britain. He whined like a little girl because this was the first time those two countries had gotten into a war where we didn't go help out.
I did multiple searches and came up with nothing at all other than some vague mentions on a couple of military forums. I don't know what you would consider mainstream but if I google "Canadian Coyotes sent to Sudan" I would expect to find at least ONE story if it was so "mainstream"
CBC (NewsWorld and The National), CTV (Headline News and Lloyd Robertson's nightly broadcast), and Global all carried the story both when we originally sent the Coyotes over and they were blocked by the Sudanese government (much of that was because of the USA's stance on the ICC) and more recently when we were allowed to actually start moving the equipment to the African Union troops. CBC covered it more extensively than the others...News Sunday did a couple of segments on it.
I don't know where you get your news, but you should likely broaden your horizons a fair bit.
What do the Liberals have to do with you? Good question. You're an NDP supporter that once in awhile mentions something about the NDP in between countless posts of defending the Liberals and their corruptive ways. You defend Liberal policy more than actual Liberal supporters. You should be asking yourself that question, not me.
Actually, what I do is defend the truth. Your rhetoric and almost violent vitriol does not serve to solve the problems with either corruption or Liberal policy failures. What it does is cause polarization and obscures the real problems so that they don't get dealt with.
The approach is ill-informed and irresponsible. It is based on half-truths and outright lies. It reduces the political conversation in this country to the kind of crap that we used to hear from south of our border. It makes our government dysfunctional.
Do I defenf the Liberals? Yeah, I defend them from your lies and bullshit so that the real problems can be addressed.
Just another example of a ridiculous comment that really has no basis for discussion other than a pathetic attempt to brush anyone who doesn't have the same view as you as being somehow evil.
It's a sarcastic response to your ridiculous assertion that $1200 dollars a year, less than $25 a week, less than $5 a day, will somehow create childcare spaces and address the needs of real Canadians. It also makes reference to the race to the bottom that Harper's support of deep integration with the US and his lack of support for fair trade initiatives will lead us into.
It requires more thought than a two-bit sound bite that one of Harper's spinners might put out. Sorry if it went completely over your head.
