Peter MacKay was in Washington yesterday to observe the annual Canadian Defence Minister's homage to Bush's flypaper strategy :
"If the job is not done in Afghanistan, if countries like Canada leave, the Taliban can follow them,'' MacKay told Canadian reporters here.
The tradition began in October 2004 when President Bush, aka Crusader Bunnypants, addressed reporters in Greeley, Colorado:
"We have defeated the Taleban..."
Wait, that's not it...just a sec...scrolling down...ah, here we go :
"We are fighting these terrorists with our military in Afghanistan and Iraq and beyond so we do not have to face them in the streets of our own cities." (Applause.)Canada failed to observe the flypaper strategy ceremony in 2005 for some reason, but here's Defence Minister Gordon O'Connor in April 2006 :
"Fighting terrorists in Afghanistan is better than waiting until they show up in Vancouver, Montreal or Ottawa, Defence Minister Gordon O'Connor told the Commons on Monday."
MacKay slipped in a small coda of his own yesterday when he added a reference to the US Battle of the Bulge, saying he wanted to "look into the whites of the eyes'' of other NATO countries to determine whether those nations truly appreciate the need to step up in Afghanistan and the impact on their countries if they don't :
"North America is not immune. Continental Europe is not immune. Nobody is immune.''
Canadian reporters were puzzled but they wrote it all down anyway.
And did I call this one back in July? Why yes, yes I did.
4 comments:
Thanks for posting the link to your July post, Alison. I must have missed that one while enjoying the BC area. LOL!
The photo in this one is GREAT! Might have to save that one for future use at some point. No doubt there will be an opportunity. There are 486 or so days left in the bushco regime you know . . . .
Doonesbury skewered that idea with a week's worth of cartoons, starting with this one:
http://www.doonesbury.com/strip/dailydose/index.html?uc_full_date=20070820
And, I'm sorry if this offends anyone, but I think some of the American arguments for war are just plain cowardice: "Go ahead and bomb a bunch of innocent people over there so I can feel safer over here!"
holly--
You make a very good point.
Re: the 'whites of the their eyes' quote.....kind of makes one wonder the S&S scriptwriters are engaging in some sort of 'Frum of The Month' contest or something.
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And, I'm sorry if this offends anyone
I don't think you will in this group, Holly . . . .
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