The Diplomad had read without much interest a November 16 piece in the Toronto Star by Canadian columnist Thomas Walkom titled, "Should Canada Indict Bush?" The Diplomad, not very familiar with Walkom, dismissed it as just another easily "fiskable" piece of nonsense from the loony fringe and hardly worth noting. The Diplomad subsequently read the LGF (Little Green Footballs) commentary on the same article, and read with appreciation comments from common-sense Canadians ridiculing this idea, and figured, "OK, that's done with."
Wrong.
Turning on the cable news, the Diplomad ran across some Canadian law professor being interviewed on FOX by John Kasich's "Heartland" show. This professor, too, was making the case for Bush's indictment.
Coincidentally, Diplomad HQS received a report from one of our Diplomads on a Sunday (today) brunch conversation with a Canadian diplomat who seemed absolutely smitten with the idea. This Canadian relished the thought of having Bush "served" a bill of indictment or arrest warrant during the President's visit to Ottawa o/a November 30. He thought this an incredibly clever idea, and spit out the reasons for indicting Bush for "crimes against humanity" — basically the ones contained in the Walkom column and the Kasich interview, e.g., aggressive war, no UNSC approval, mistreatment of POWs and civilian populations, etc. Fortunately our Diplomad had the presence of mind — which neither Kasich nor Walkom showed — of asking, "What do you think the US reaction would be?" Our northern "friend" seemed taken aback by the thought, and confused, said that, well perhaps, we would protest and file something or another in Canadian court, or invoke Bush's sovereign immunity, but that in the end we would have to deal with the issue in court, presumably in a Canadian court. Oh, really?
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(Unattributed in The Diplomad, November 21, 2004)
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Gosh, I really didn't think we'd end up declaring war on Canada...THIS soon...
Try it; we'll nuke your sorry Cana-duh asses!
More reasons why we don't support the International Kangaroo Court.
I believe the Toronto Star is the Canadian equivalent to the NY Times: Liberal BS.
Send the Marines? Close the border? Surrender to Quebec (like the rest of Canada has already)?
If Canada is suffering over a lack of beef exports, I wonder how they would like us to REALLY get angry? They might find that they have had it easy all of these years.
You bet. I would love to see Bush charged....so he could turn around and say "Who gives a phuck what Canada thinks! They exist because America ALLOWS it to exist!"
Try it honey bun. I want some revenge for those quarters you keep shipping down here.
I'll go up and capture Vancouver. Do I have any volunteers to go capture some of their other cities?
If they want to commit an act of war against us after 150 years of peace along that border, let them. I thought we got a raw deal on the border skirmishes anyway. US troops would easily overwhelm Canadian defenses.
Sounds to me like Canada is itching to get its collective butt pounded flat.
NOTE TO CANADA: You don't want us to start cracking touques, eh?
Do the Canadians not realise that Ron Artest,Stephen Jackson
and Jermaine O'Neal do not have gig for a few weeks.
All we have to do is convince them that Detroit fans wave Maple Leaf flags and that the season is open.
twalkom@thestar.ca. This is the email address of the author of this piece.
BRING IT ON!
I double Dog Dare Ya!!!
Canada would get to see some Old Fashioned American Imperialism Up close and Personal like!!
Bring it on. BTW, given Canuckistan's really lax immigration policies, we ought to be sealing that border really, really, tight. Israeli-style walls, for example.
(Willing to accept Alberta as state #51, OTOH.)
Thanks to quidnunc and an article from a liberal rag for bringing out the best in our neighbours to the south. If you think this one article represents the whole of Canada, then you are sadly mistaken.
Uh, can the Canucks make the Geneva Convention apply to illegal combatants, which virtually all the "insurgents" are?
My e-mail to Thomas Walkom:
Read your tongue-in-cheek article about the possible indict-
ment of George W. Bush. Given Canada's past, it is just as
likely that Canada would be included in our president's
"Axis of Evil" list as a harborer of terrorists.
Your article was unfunny, at least, and unnecessarily pro-
vocative, at most. Your nation would not try to arrest and/
or indict President Bush on its best day unless, of course,
you were attempting to force your way into becoming a large,
but insignificant county in Northern Montana.
Regards