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2008-05-15 Great White North
Canada, US 'moral equivalent' of Al-Qaeda, says Canadian senator
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Posted by Fred 2008-05-15 00:00|| || Front Page|| [11130 views ]  Top
 File under: al-Qaeda 

#1 What I find as amazingly ignorant is that Mr. Dallaire comes to this conclusion based on a single incident. And this is from a country whose laws allow for the incarceration and prosecution of 16 year old murderers.

His analogy is equivalent of accusing the US and Canada of being the 'moral equivalent' of Hitler and the Nazis based on the incarceration of a 16 year old German solider.
Posted by anymouse">anymouse  2008-05-15 00:18||   2008-05-15 00:18|| Front Page Top

#2 What I find as amazingly ignorant is that Mr. Dallaire comes to this conclusion based on a single incident.

The single incident is simply a pretext. Did it not exist, or if Guantanamo did not exist, Mr. Dallaire would find another pretext to spout the same rubbish.
Posted by DoDo 2008-05-15 00:37||   2008-05-15 00:37|| Front Page Top

#3 what a bozo
Posted by Jan 2008-05-15 01:42||   2008-05-15 01:42|| Front Page Top

#4 Only a bozo? Wikipedia says he led the "ill-fated United Nations peacekeeping force for Rwanda between 1993 and 1994." That was the lowest point in UN history, until the blue berets shielded for Hizbollah during the Israel incursion of 2006.
Posted by McZoid 2008-05-15 02:28||   2008-05-15 02:28|| Front Page Top

#5 Not that anyone would want to, but - just in case - one may e-mail the senator via a link at a website extolling his many virtues. Lovely photograph, too.
Posted by Bobby 2008-05-15 05:57||   2008-05-15 05:57|| Front Page Top

#6 All other things being equal then, I still prefer an ice cold Labatts Blue in an Ontario strip club!
Posted by JDB 2008-05-15 06:02||   2008-05-15 06:02|| Front Page Top

#7 Secretary of State for Multiculturalism

Sounds like a tough job...

Posted by Raj 2008-05-15 08:12||   2008-05-15 08:12|| Front Page Top

#8 What are 800,000 murdered Rwandans the 'moral equivalent' to?
Posted by ed 2008-05-15 08:35||   2008-05-15 08:35|| Front Page Top

#9 Romeo, Romeo, WTF art thou, Romeo?
Posted by Grunter 2008-05-15 08:49||   2008-05-15 08:49|| Front Page Top

#10 I say we drop him off in the remote regions of Pakland and let him get chummy with his friends. There won't be enough left of him to bury.
Posted by DarthVader">DarthVader  2008-05-15 09:18||   2008-05-15 09:18|| Front Page Top

#11 Do they listen to Keith Overbite in Canuckistan?
Posted by doc 2008-05-15 09:41||   2008-05-15 09:41|| Front Page Top

#12 "Secretary of State for Multiculturalism"

The fact that Canada has such a position shows exactly what's wrong with the country.

Al
Posted by Frozen Al 2008-05-15 11:55||   2008-05-15 11:55|| Front Page Top

#13 Wow - 3 days in a row, I can, IN CONEXT no less, say...

BLAME CANADA!

/southpark
Posted by OldSpook 2008-05-15 12:34||   2008-05-15 12:34|| Front Page Top

#14 These things are all relative and, as such, disclose more about the speaker than the subject. If Dallaire is standing in a place where the US and AQ look the same, then he is pretty far out to left field, orbiting Saturn and running low on oxygen.
Posted by Iblis 2008-05-15 12:43||   2008-05-15 12:43|| Front Page Top

#15 This guy is a first magnitude idiot.
Posted by JohnQC 2008-05-15 13:07||   2008-05-15 13:07|| Front Page Top

#16 What never occurs to this type of fellow is that if the US was really as bad as Al Queda nobody would have any idea who we have hidden at Guantanimo until we beheaded them or something. The fact that we're discussing a trial is another step. If he's found guilty is the time for Canadians to worry about how one of their own turned into such a rat bastard at such a young age.
Posted by rjschwarz 2008-05-15 13:10||   2008-05-15 13:10|| Front Page Top

#17 Yeah, I don't remember hearing anything about trials of Al Qaeda victims , with defense lawyers, qualified judges, etc. I mostly have heard about announcements of the judgment of Allan having been rendered, or a description of the body count from the explosive vest.
Posted by Rambler in California">Rambler in California  2008-05-15 13:52||   2008-05-15 13:52|| Front Page Top

#18 Senator Romeo Dallaire is the dude that saw his soldiers being murdered by the Rwanda "rebels" and drove on because he said he "couldn't do anything" about the situation. Then he came home to Canada, had a major public nervous breakdown, hit the bottle good and hard and is now a LIBERAL senator.

This guy is an excuse for a soldier, a public disgrace, a tool of the LIBERAL party and he and his precious opinions should be ignored.
Posted by Canuckistan sniper 2008-05-15 16:55||   2008-05-15 16:55|| Front Page Top

#19 The senator, who represents the opposition Liberal party

How did I know that part before I got to it?
Posted by Secret Master 2008-05-15 21:32||   2008-05-15 21:32|| Front Page Top

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