the WAR on TERROR

THE WAR ON TERROR

The cut and run, left wing nuts are still at it. Our NDP leader, Jack Layton, supported our then prime minister when he committed our troops to Afghanistan for a peacemaking, not peacekeeping mission. Now that we have a Conservative PM, Mr. Layton wants to get out somewhere along the timeline of yesterday. Casualties are mounting and the PM committed our troops to 2 more years of being in country. Jack says this is all a surprise to him. Equine excrement. He wants to be a king maker and leans pretty far to the left.

Now, along comes Bloc Quebecois Leader Gilles Duceppe who is making the same noise. But his mouth is open for a different reason. Most of both the combat work and "peacemaking" has been done by Edmonton's Princess Patricia's Canadian Light Infantry and Ontario's Royal Canadian Regiment. The Princess Pat's are looking at spending another Christmas away from home. Why you ask? Let's ask Warrant Officer Daniel Parenteau. Parenteau, whose job it is to liaise with the Afghan people, also reflected on the mission the Canadian government has sent him on. "I'm proud of what I do," he said. "We don't want to die. But we want to change this country -- to give hope." Isn't that what it's all about? Whether in Afghanistan or Iraq, people need and want hope. They want freedom. Witness those who voted in the Iraqi, Irani and Afghan elections. At great peril to themselves, they voted to rid themselves of dictatorship. The terrorists don't seem to get it. Hezbollah is now at war with Hamas. Maybe it is time to quit Iraq and let these jerks blow themselves to bits.