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PM says Canada will not fight in Iraq
CBC News ^
| 3/17/03
Posted on 03/17/2003 11:47:25 AM PST by areafiftyone
OTTAWA -
Prime Minister Jean Chrétien said Monday that Canada will not go to war against Iraq.
He said the government would only support military action if there were a United Nations Security Council resolution, and the Council backers of an attack decided Monday to withdraw their resolution.
Without a resolution, "Canada will not participate," Chrétien said to cheers in Parliament.
The U.S. and Britain, which has been seeking suport for the resolution, withdrew it when it became clear that it did not have enough backing to pass.
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To: Kennard
Chretien, is too busy dreaming up his great society, which he wants to leave as his legacy, once he moves into retirement after January 2004. His priorities are big social programs, social engineering of Canadian society based on the pathological gay rights agenda, massive funding of day care, expanded health care programs, and multi-culturalism.
Militarism, truth and defense of freedom do not interest the governing liberals. They are aide and abetted by a leftist media elite, in firm control of the country, and preceive themselves invincible due to the split in the conservative center right block between the red-tories of former prime minister Joe Clark, and the Canadian Alliance led by Stephen Harper.
The Canadian public is even more guillible that the Europeans when it comes to matters of international politics, and national security, as they massively parrott the line issues by the majority of the Canadian media, and the Chretien liberals that the Americans are the agressor in this crisis in Iraq. As if the World Trade Center was never attacked !
The true nature of the arsenal of the dictator of Iraq is carefully hidden from the Canadian public, and the media take great pains to expound on any anti-American entertainer's sentiment, but sweep real news and facts concerning the threat Saddam Hussein poses to the global community under the carpet.
Chretien, deserves to get hammered for his cowardly actions by the US in terms of payback when it comes to bi-lateral relations.
To: jokar
5{our support because for some of us this is very upsetting. There is no doubt that Canada needs you guys desperately. I don't know what the hell our PM is thinking. He's a spineless frog who should be on the right side. Its also a slap to Britain. My siblings and I were born in Ontario but my brothers have been US citizens for years. I feel caught in the middle and hurt, embarrassed and ashamed. I am also terribly scared for the future when we really need your support.
Thanks for sympathy.
Rachel
To: areafiftyone
Why should we be surprised? They won't even put up a fight to keep their baseball team in Montreal (and the team isn't all that bad, either).
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posted on
03/17/2003 2:25:26 PM PST
by
Wondervixen
(Ask for her by name--Accept no substitutes!)
To: psycho-sis
I did not "curse" Canada, nor Canadians... I curse--if that word is to be use--the French pigs who are ruining your "reputation" with America. But, that said, do you expect me to believe all the America-bashing coming from Canada is being done soley by French poltroons and their whores?
84
posted on
03/17/2003 2:48:05 PM PST
by
jt8d
(headline)
To: IvanT
Don't anyone call for a boycott of Canada until I get back from the fishing trip I've already paid for. The people there have always treated us like royalty. We get 8 days in the cool Canadian wilderness in the middle of August. Where fishin' aint fishin' - it's catchin'. Where the water's so clean you don't even have to filter it to drink it....
I couldn't bear it!!!!
85
posted on
03/17/2003 2:58:32 PM PST
by
CarolAnn
To: Don W
"It's disgraceful"
We need to be heard.
To: cynicom
Now I find that I can agree with you.
Americans have plenty of reason to have it 'in' for our Gov't......and frankly, with about half our population.
I still maintain that the excessive Liberalism is our common domestic enemy. That said, I am happier to see 'adults in charge' in Washington, rather than Canada.....for obvious reasons. The longer Republicans stay in power in the USA, the more likely for us to shed the disease of Liberalism.
This is a 'spoiled country' here.....that is still "family" to Americans.....and you've treated us a bit too good.
To: areafiftyone
One word: Pussy (the feline type of course)
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posted on
03/17/2003 3:32:11 PM PST
by
Porterville
(Screw the grammar, full posting ahead.)
To: CarolAnn
Well, I like their cedar, I say we chop down their forest and leave them the tundra.
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posted on
03/17/2003 3:33:08 PM PST
by
Porterville
(Screw the grammar, full posting ahead.)
To: areafiftyone
What more can you expect of a former French colony?
To: areafiftyone
To be honest, I feel sorry for the thirty or so Canadian soldiers currently in Kuwait, who will now be ordered to sit in their tent while their comrades go into battle. We should offer immediate entry into the US Army to any Canadian trooper who wishes to defect and join the war.
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posted on
03/17/2003 3:49:17 PM PST
by
Argus
To: jokar
Not being "onboard" with you is a "blow" to us that are capable of rational thought.
One of the bright sides to the 'war on terror' should be the continual erosion of Liberal ideology.
Things are going to get a lot more 'real', than they are now......and reality and liberalism, don't mix.
To: areafiftyone
Bump.
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posted on
03/17/2003 3:53:46 PM PST
by
Maeve
(Siobhan's daughter and sometime banshee.)
To: FreeCanuckistan
You've got plenty of work to do......yourselves.You are correct, and we will be getting to it by weeks end, while Canadians tell themselves how superior they are. While we do not require your help, silence while we do the work would be nice.
Thank you very much.
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posted on
03/17/2003 4:02:18 PM PST
by
HoustonCurmudgeon
(Compassionate Conservative Curmudgeon)
To: areafiftyone
Jean Chretien doesn't want to put his country on the right side of history? The people of Iraq will soon be free, no thanks to Canada.
To: goldstategop
Yup....that's right.
To: areafiftyone
Actually, I'm glad. I was afraid that we would have to fight Iraq and Canada at the same time.
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posted on
03/17/2003 5:21:05 PM PST
by
Rocky
To: HoustonCurmudgeon
You're just itchin' for a fight.....and you came to the right place.
And yes....you also have a serious Liberal problem, or didn't the 2000 election and the Florida 'chad' fiasco, faze you in any way?
Or might the likes of CNN....Al Sharpton....Ted Kennedy.....Pelosi....the Clinton's, make you feel better about yourself?
To: FreeCanuckistan
Sure we have a liberal problem, but even most of them have more backbone than Canada, Mexico, France, Germany, China and Russia. Well now that I look at the list it is an odd bunch of twits isn't it?
BTW did you note the 2002 elections that we had since 2000? I mean I know most of your country is still in the 19th or 20th century but you really need to stay informed. BTW y'all still keep the western Souix on reservations?
Texas friend of Chief Joe Mathias Capilano
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posted on
03/17/2003 6:37:02 PM PST
by
HoustonCurmudgeon
(Compassionate Conservative Curmudgeon)
To: FreeCanuckistan
FYI:
On C-SPAN, Stockwell Day is delivering a stirring address from the opposition front benches excoriating the Canadian government, "estranged from its most important allies".
Stockwell Day: Let us not continue to use the word "unilateral" in this debate.
Stockwell Day quotes Jean Chrétien from January 31, 2003: "Resolution 1441 will authorize military action"
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posted on
03/17/2003 6:44:38 PM PST
by
HoustonCurmudgeon
(Compassionate Conservative Curmudgeon)
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