R and C since you decided to use my comment ...I'll respond.
I'm sorry that statement makes you mad....good...means you're awake.
I have no idea what the deal is with the 17 people no more than what the media tells me.And since the media used to report what's really happening on this planet I used to believe everything I saw on tube and in the paper. But since mainstream media has become nothing more than a Corporate shill, I have to question everything I read. Furthermore,since my Prime Minister has decided to only pick and choose who will get to ask him questions I can't trust anything resembling the truth coming from there either. Wake -up..the flow of information containing any actual truth is being squeezed thin to be replaced with "sound bite " politics. So yes.....unfortunately I have come to the point where I question it all.
Bullshit! Wake up everyone, this is the new Canada. We all like to pretend that Canada is different from the U.S., but we have more similarities than dissimilarities. An Islamic fundamentalist terrorist who hates Western ideals would have a hard time telling the difference between Canada and the U.S
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What is this "New Canada" you speak of? The one engaged in Afghanistan now? The one selling out it's resources? The one that's pulling out of Kyoto with no real viable other alternative being offered? The one that just increased the federal income tax rate for the lowest tax bracket in the Country? The one quietly with no press fanfare beginning to implement biometric screening? The one where the Pm has decided to restrict the flow of information out of his offices? That New Canada? Ya,I'm not really diggin on that whole new scene myself.
Put the war on terror aside for a moment, Afghanistan is a fools folly. Gawd,we have such national collective amnesia. Ask the Brits,ask the Russians...they'll tell ya all about Afghanistan.
How exactly does one fight a war like this? Terrorism has no borders,no single nationality,no single cohesiveness and I would argue that it feeds on retaliation like a fat kid on smarties.
How in the hell is being engaged in Afghanistan actually helping us deter this kind of behavior?
Ask yourself,how has the complete dismantling of Iraq made America more secure? Has is stopped terrorism? Does it even want to?
If those guys we're planning some shit,I'm dam glad they caught. Obviously I have no desire to see any sort of 911 type incident here. But I'm looking at the broader picture and I see a different one than you.
I see a disingenuous war. I see a Nation being sucked into the same bullshit fed our friends to the South. The war in Iraq has nothing to do with spreading democracy,or gettin the "evil doers" or anything even remotely altruistic like that. It has everything to do with protecting Corporate Multi National interstes. The military industrial complex that Eisenhower warned about is in full swing and people are paying with their lives to keep it humming along.The amount of money that is being made off the backs of dead soldiers and civilian casualties is sickening.And I for one want nothing to do with that.
I don't propose to know what the answers are when it comes to dealing with terrorism. People didn't just get up one day and decide to "Hate the West",{for lack of a better term.} all of the sudden.There is much history behind the animosities. We've been screwing around in that part of the World for a long time and we don't seem to be making it any better.Mabye we need to look at new solutions. Which I doubt will happen. Too much Oil involved. Too much $$$ at stake and to many assholes gettin rich.
That's my opinion,sorry if you feel it's what's wrong with this Country.....I don't see it that way.
