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| Chretien makes stoopid remarks... |
| 2002-09-12 |
| Canadian Prime Minister Jean Chretien, going where few other leaders dare to tread, has linked the Sept. 11 suicide attacks to the perceived arrogance and selfishness of the United States and the West. I link them to Islamists hijacking four jetlines and killing all the passengers... Chretien is the first head of a western major nation to suggest that the suicide hijackers might have been motivated by what he describes as the misguided policies of a rich and powerful West that did not understand the need for restraint. Seems it was the Islamists who failed to exercise any restraint. We've been leaving them undisturbed in their rathole countries for years. Festering... The veteran prime minister, who has been in power for nine years, told the CBC in an interview aired late on Wednesday that there was "a lot of resentment" about the way in which powerful nations treated the increasing number of poor and dispossessed people in the world. Now there can be "a lot of resentment" in the United States against the Great White North... "You know, you cannot exercise your powers to the point of humiliation for others. That is what the Western world — not only the Americans, the Western world — has to realize. Because they (the have-nots) are human beings too. There are long-term consequences if you don't look hard at the reality in 10 or 20 (or) 30 years from now," he said. When we fought the Japanese and the Germans, we exercised our powers to the point of humiliation. Once they'd been ground down to nothing, we helped them rebuild into stable societies and today we meet them as equals. It's the cases where we've pussyfooted around and shown restraint where the problems have kept coming back to gnaw us in the collective derriere. If we hadn't "shown restraint" after Gulf War I, Bush might be playing golf with the current president of Iraq today, instead of being on the verge of throwing restraint to the winds. New Brunswick for the 51st state! 54-40 or fight! |
| Posted by:Fred Pruitt |
| #4 Under Chretien's fine leadership, no worry about Canada being lumped in with the "rich and powerful West" |
| Posted by: Brian M. 2002-09-12 18:24:24 |
| #3 Can't wait for Mark Steyn to do this one... |
| Posted by: Frank G 2002-09-12 13:24:22 |
| #2 On behalf of intelligent Candians everywhere, I apologize for Chretien absolving terrorists of any responsibility for their own actions. I personally believe he’s trying this new technique in anticipation of it working to excuse his own actions as his sun (oh so very slowly) starts it’s 18 month set. Canadian media and the population at large mostly ignore him, hoping he’ll go away – pass that along to ABC. We know he’s nuts, after all here’s the proof. And as we all know the proof is the proof and when you have good proof, it’s proven. |
| Posted by: Tally 2002-09-12 11:25:46 |
| #1 Are you sure about the spelling? I thought it was Cretin. |
| Posted by: dorf 2002-09-12 11:21:12 |