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At the dog-racing tracks in Florida, there are men and women whose job it is to sweep up after the greyhounds. Greyhounds are highly excitable animals, and they can leave a stinking mess. I would rather swap jobs with a greyhound-track flunky than have the mission that some Liberal MPs from the Toronto area have assumed as apologists for one of the most wicked human swine to deface this planet, Saddam Hussein. While some are propagandists for Saddam's genocidal empire, others have poured scorn on our best friends and allies, the Americans, and taken cheap shots at the Israelis. And...

But enough about true leadership. Let's go to the other end of the moral clarity spectrum and talk about Colleen Beaumier, Canada's one-woman peace delegation to Iraq. Ms. Beaumier is not alone. There are plenty of naive Westerners only too willing to visit Baghdad and learn all about the great suffering of the Iraqi people under the jackboot of the great American Satan. But most of these useful idiots are Hollywood stars, "peace" activists and marginal loons like the NDP's Svend Robinson. Ms. Beaumier, on the other hand, is an elected federal official from Canada's ruling party. Saddam can only...