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Canadians Too Thick To Support Afghanistan Mission: Defence Minister

Posted on Wednesday, March 01 at 14:03 by Lex
Canadians Too Thick to Support Afghanistan Mission: Defence Minister C. L. Cook PEJ News February 25, 2006 A Globe and Mail/ Strategic Counsel poll published yesterday (G&B, Fri. Feb. 24, 2006) pronounced, 'Majority Opposed to Afghan Mission.' As the Canadian Forces prepare to pick up the mantle of the NATO mission in-country this week, and as the nation expands its fifth year of picket duty for Afghanistan's effective occupation, a bewildered Defence Minister can merely shake his head. Or, so Gordon O'Connor would have it. With his bum barely in the chair at the head of Canada's armed forces, rookie Cabinet Minister O'Connor is holding forth to the world's press, complaining of the dumb-asses, in the form of the majority of Canadians polled, he has to deal with. More amazing perhaps to O'Connor is the desire of an even greater number of Canadians asked that demands be made of Parliament to debate war issues before committing troops, a novel notion sure to displease the Freshman Tories. But, put on the spot, O'Connor bleats: "Our policy is that, in future, if we're committing troops somewhere in substantial numbers we would go to Parliament and we'd basically seek the support of Parliament." http://www.pej.org/html/modules.php?op=modload&name=News&file=article&sid=4266&mode=thread&order=0&thold=0

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  1. by Diogenes
    Wed Mar 01, 2006 10:17 pm
    It also appears Canadian voters are also "to thick" to choose representaion in Ottawa and endup getting the politicians they deserve



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    to realise our knowledge is ignorance is a noble thought.
    To regard our ignorance as knowledge-
    This is mental illness
    Lao-Tzo

  2. by jensonj
    Thu Mar 02, 2006 2:37 am
    These people who serve this country of Canada at our pleasure keep holding up Democracy as the be all and end all of political systems to justify what they stand for and do in our name but then claim that the people of said Democracies are too stupid to understand anything or make their own decisions.

    They should also realize that Democracy gives us the right to be wrong and accountable as well!


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    Perception is two thirds of what we perceive reality to be.

    Difficult decisions are a privilege of rank.

  3. by 4Canada
    Thu Mar 02, 2006 7:39 am
    O'Conner is Hillier minus the camouflage. O'Conner was quoted in the G&M saying "I have a lot of work to do". He was talking about all the propaganda he needs to get out there into the media, you know the eight or nine times you have to repeat something to a lunkhead before they get it. And Hillier was on Politics today all flushed and inspired by his life in the military and how easy he knows it will be to get people to come and sail in the best frigits and fly in the best aircraft and use the state of the art war blah blah blah. It was like the heavenly military Rapture. Intoxicating.

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    "And those who were seen dancing were thought to be insane by those who could not hear the music." Friedrich Nietzsche

  4. by Deacon
    Thu Mar 02, 2006 9:01 am
    To reply to O'Conner's typically boneheaded reply I will use the same words that Sean Connery's character used in "The Rock"

    You're a f*cking idiot! General Sir!

  5. by Deacon
    Thu Mar 02, 2006 9:03 am
    "boneheaded reply" should have been "boneheaded statement".

    Sorry.

  6. by avatar Reverend Blair
    Thu Mar 02, 2006 3:34 pm
    Hillier always reminds me of a Dr. Strangelove extra. When I saw him talking about recruiting on Politics yesterday, I wondered what world he was from.

  7. by chall
    Sat Mar 04, 2006 3:32 pm
    Sounds just like another boneheaded statement we've heard in the past: "You see in my line of work you have to say things a couple of times, to like, catapult the propaganda." All cut from the same cloth, these puppets.



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