All he needs now is the grey ponytail
Bob Rae: showing you can take the boy out of the hippie asshat party, but you can't take the hippie asshat out of the boy.
I was told the other day by a friend in uniform that the Liberals had more bench strength than the Conservatives in parliament, and Bob Rae was one of the personalities he cited.
So much for that steaming heap of an argument.
Here's a tip for Bob: this is how you resist a war you feel is immoral, when you're drafted. For today's volunteers - they signed up and accepted the paycheque and benefits easily enough - this is how you bail out on your commitments with at least a smidgen of honour.
Make your choice, and take the consequences.
That Bob Rae doesn't get that concept shows that while he may have changed political parties, he's still stuck on 60's stupid.
I was told the other day by a friend in uniform that the Liberals had more bench strength than the Conservatives in parliament, and Bob Rae was one of the personalities he cited.
So much for that steaming heap of an argument.
Here's a tip for Bob: this is how you resist a war you feel is immoral, when you're drafted. For today's volunteers - they signed up and accepted the paycheque and benefits easily enough - this is how you bail out on your commitments with at least a smidgen of honour.
Make your choice, and take the consequences.
That Bob Rae doesn't get that concept shows that while he may have changed political parties, he's still stuck on 60's stupid.
posted by Babbling Brooks at 10:23 a.m.
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The Wall Street Journal has a good editorial on this subject:
http://online.wsj.com/public/article_print/SB121573600431944391.html
Can you imagine the uproar in Canada and the same ass-hats' declarations were a Canadian soldier to desert the CF and apply for asylum in the US since he's fighting an "illegal, non-UN sanctioned war"? (*cough* Kosovo)
(the whole UN-qualified thing is taken from that hippie Parliament motion that passed a few weeks ago)
Dexter, since the website comes across truncated in your comment, I've hotlinked it here.
You can do that yourself by taking the URL (website address) and following this format:
[a href="www.whatever.com"]hotlinked words[/a]
You just need to replace these parentheses [] with these ones <>. Hope that helps for next time.
Oh, and by the way, the WSJ article misses badly on one particular point:
"...a military can't succeed in its mission if soldiers can decide on their own when and whether to obey orders."
Soldiers are taught that if they believe an order is illegal, they're required to disobey it.
But you don't disobey by running to another country and trying to seek refugee status. You take your stand, and you take the consequences.
Here's another asshat. Or rather two, from the Calgary Herald. Link
In my opinion Joel Kom and Kelly Cryderman engaged in a hit piece.
I responded and the return comment was: "I'm not really sure what you mean by all this, George, so I'm finding it hard to respond. But thanks all the same for taking the time to write in."
Oh well.
Just read that Calgary Herald article that George linked. Hit piece is a pretty good description.
Interesting that the only prospective recruit they chose to quote "One twenty-something man checking out the Canadian Forces equipment said "shooting people" and the job security of the military would be cool. "But all the other rules wouldn't work for me because I am kind of a rebel," he said, declining to give his name."
None of the other potential recruit prospects with whom the recruiters met spoke of serving Canada? Or helping the Afghan people defeat terrorism and build a democracy? Or getting a military technical education that can be translated into a well paid civilian career? Or the appeal of the adventure of a military career?
Instead, we're left with the subtle typification of anyone interested in serving their country in a military career is mentally unbalanced, essentially attracted by the prospect of violence and killing.
Bob Rae isn't by a long shot the only one "stuck on 60's stupid". We can add to that list a lot of "journalists" and politicians (on both sides of the Canadian/US border). Reading enough news from anywhere in the Anglosphere shows this anti-military contempt to be a common ideological thread in the West's neo-liberal "progressive" camp.
Bob Rae . . . the man who believes he should be the Prime Minister of Canada.
How's that for a nightmare kinda thought.
I actually knew Bobbie Rae (as he then was known) in his youth. One thing he never was was a hippie; he was far too ambitious to be so distracted.
Mark
Ottawa
BB, good post. Canada should deport these soldiers to face the consequences of their own objections to war in their own country. Soldiers do not have the right to approve what missions they do or don't want to partake in. Or to more precise, they do have the right, but they should face that decision like grown adults in their own country.
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