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You Yanks slay me! It's allright for you guys to slam everyone else's leaders, governments, people, and culture. But, heaven forbid anyone should say even the slightest thing about you and your precious POTUS.
I take the former approach. Politicians become politicians of their own free will, and I think the first line of their job description is to stand in public and take verbal tomatoes. It means owning up for each and everything you do, and never shrinking from scrutiny.
We Canadians, in general, think our PM Chretien is an idiot. Not a stupid man. He's well educated, successful outside of politics, and took his party to one of the strongest majority governments since WWII. But, he's an ass. His actions are at time obviously self serving. He waffles on important issues, obviously cow-towing to some interest unseen.
He cares little for Canada. He's purposely sabotaged the incoming leader of the party. He's left us hanging on the edge of economic ruin with David Dodge running the Central Bank. He let Alberta take steps towards private health care, in contravention of the Canada Health Act. He bent over and let Canada take it in the tush in all our recent trade negotiations. He circumvented democracy by using his cabinet and committee positions to nullify backbenchers and use them as voting tools to run the nation in a dictatorial manner. And the sad thing is that those backbenchers let themselves be used like that. Spinless simpletons.
Why would we join the war? Our military is in sad shape thanks to years and years of vicious funding cuts.
To go off on a tangent, I'm really worried about the fate of the Kurds. I hope that the US has not sacrificed them to the Turks in exchange for airspace. have we traded genocide for the removal of a dictator? Their plight seems pretty much ignored/marginalized during this whole thing. If our PM wants to stand up for something, maybe that could be it.
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