Finally, A Cause All Women Can Get Behind!

I am waiting for all the feminists to get behind the fight for Afghani women. This is the great cause they have all been waiting for, this is the reason they protest, this is what they stand for, this is their heart and soul.......crickets.

Notice how PM Harper has not been seen with Karzai in years? We can all smell the stink of corruption coming from his government. Now he has a challenger, a female challenger. Will the tribal Afghani's accept a women?

Why are we not hearing the LOUD voice of feminists supporting her cause? Are they too busy with the boat from Canada in support of the terrorist organization Hamas? Where are these defenders of women? The silence is like being in a forest after a hard rain, even the birds are quiet.  

Do We Stay Or Do We Go?

I thank PM Harper for making his first international trip to Afghanistan, it started a new era for our military. Millions of us realized that we could actually show that we felt good about our military. We knew they were doing an excellent job, but under the Liberals, with spending cuts, our military was at the bottom of the barrel. That visit by PM Harper, plus the extra spending on our military, gave us the go ahead to actively show our support.

Unfortunately, it appears that support was fleeting because the opposition actually has control of the House. Even with two anti-military parties (NDP/Bloq) the government has been able to extend the mission twice thanks to some level headed Liberals. I think PM Harper made a huge mistake by allowing Parliament to vote on matters of military importance. Only the government of the day can send troops into battle. The Liberals sent our troops into Afghanistan without consulting Parliament. I will never forget the pictures of our troops in green camo's out in the desert. We had to rely on Russia to transport our troops and equipment. That has changed, it started with Paul Martin, and continued with PM Harper, and it should continue every year no matter who is in power. A country is only as strong as it's military.

Now we have Hillary telling us to stay the course. Normally I would be agreeing, but my opinion has changed.

I wanted our troops in Afghanistan to protect the women and children, and I support the desire of our troops to stay the course. They are the pros, and we should listen to them, and respect the memory of those who have paid the ultimate sacrifice. The political landscape has unfortunately changed, and the Conservatives have gone from outright support of our troops, to a, sorry boys/girls we can't do it, because the opposition are anti-war. Consider what province is most anti-military in Canada! Right, Quebec. This should not be about votes. This does not wash with me or the millions of Canadians who have gone from indifference towards our troops, to support like on the Highway of Heroes. Canadians do not want peacekeepers, they want warriors. I want to know that the government supports our troops and will continue to fund them.

My support for our troops remains solid, what has changed my opinion is the corrupt government of Afghanistan. They do not care about their own people. They want to invite the Taliban to the table. If that is the case, it's time for our troops to leave. The Afghan people supposedly want us, but Karzai seems to be abandoning his own people.

NATO offensive may not go ahead: Karzai

At a fractious "jirga" meeting of about 2,000 tribal elders, politicians and citizens from Kandahar province and neighbouring provinces, Mr. Karzai asked those assembled if they were worried about the operation, expected to be NATO's largest-yet in Afghanistan.

"We are worried!" many shouted back. Mr. Karzai then assured them, "There will be no operation unless you are happy."

His administration will engage in further consultation with the province's people before deciding about the operation, Mr. Karzai promised at the meeting in Kandahar City.

It is time for the Afghan people to take up the reins of their own country. Karzai wants the Taliban back, and the people are unwilling to give our troops information that would lead to the capture of the Taliban.

I wish our troops could stay, but as a strong supporter of our military, I want them home, because as far as I can see, Afghanistan doesn't want to change. Iraq changed because the people wanted it, I see more hope for Iraq than I do for Afghanistan. Afghans do not want to help themselves, if they did they would have built up a professional army to look out for it's people. They would have a law system that would protect the women and children, and lock up the drug criminals. The problem is that most of the drug criminals are part of the Afghan government.

Keep some troops there to train the Afghan military and protect the companies doing reconstruction work, but that is it. Do we stay or do we go? It pains me immensely to say this, but I say go. Enough!

20 Minutes of Iggy Uncut And Raw.

The Youtube videos about Iggy, are coming out so fast it's hard to keep up with them. But first, we need to talk about this article:

Harper's fate tied up with Karzai's

With a federal election increasingly likely, Tuesday's confirmation of widespread fraud in the Afghanistan presidential election from a United Nations-backed election monitoring team is politically dangerous news for the Conservative Prime Minister, putting at even greater risk the Conservatives' embattled redoubt in Quebec and handing the NDP fresh ammunition in battleground ridings, especially in British Columbia.

Is this guy for real??? Election fraud in Afghanistan reflects on our PM? Did he get into the poppy fields?

The Afghan President is, after all, the Canadian Prime Minister's guy. The Conservative government has backed the Karzai administration despite widespread allegations that the regime is a corrupt kleptocracy, funnelling vast sums of aid and local revenues to friends and relations while sustaining unsavoury former warlords neck-deep in the drug trade.

Oh, I get it, the left can't bash Bush anymore, and they love socialist Obama, so that leaves, Karzai. They wouldn't dare condemn China, Cuba or dare I say Saudi Arabia, for their human rights crimes, that's just not the "in" thing to do. This "journalist" should be on some NDP blogroll, not published in a national paper, but that's your lefty press, which is on CO2. Anyways, let's go with that support for war thingy.



Maybe the Globe and Mail should look at this video of Iggy and ask questions about how he talked about torture if necessary but not necessarily torture.

I was reading comments on the Globe and Mail when someone (I can't find that comment again) gave a link to a video from back in 2004, with Charlie Rose. My challenge to you, is to count all the times Iggy said "we", referring to himself and other Americans.

A Conversation with Michael Ignatieff



20 Minutes, of Iggy uncut and raw!

There is so much there, it needs to be broken down, maybe by fellow bloggers.