An Open Letter to Bush Jr.-Jr.
During the elections, an indignant Stephen Harper took great umbrage at the accusation that he would be a pawn of the United States.
Judging from his recent actions, the Canadian Prime Minister seems intent on following the incredibly successful template for international military and diplomatic success laid out by George W. Bush.
While he's at it, perhaps he should ask Kobe Bryant for dating tips and Stevie Wonder for a haircut.
While Harper's shameless, witless, policy plagiarism should elicit derision, the human cost of his folly is no joke.
Like George W. Bush, the tough-talking Stephen Harper is adept at using troops for photo-ops, but when it comes time to honour them after they've made the ultimate sacrifice, he's nowhere to be found. While he pledges someone else's child will not "cut and run", he himself cuts and runs from the grieving parents of fallen soldiers.
Like George W. Bush, Harper has banned the press from photographing flag-draped coffins...
Stephen Harper's government has also discontinued the practice of lowering the flag to half-mast to honour fallen troops--more Bushlike "Strategery".
Do you think you can play this country for fools, Mr. Harper? Do you think you can pour a bottle of antiseptic over this whole foolish endeavour and make this war seem painless?
It isn't, Mr. Harper, and you can't.
From the Hamilton Spectator:
At the funeral for Corporal Matthew Dinning in the southwestern Ontario town of Wingham on Saturday, Lincoln Dinning projected home movies of his late son on a large video screen, with the final images showing his son's remains returning to CFB Trenton.
"Now I'd like to show you some of the video that Mr. Harper wouldn't let you see close up of Matthew's arrival home," Dinning told mourners Saturday.
He added that his late son had been angry about the federal government's decision not to lower flags to half-mast on the death of a Canadian soldier.
Sandra Buckler, Harper's head of communications, told The Canadian Press yesterday that Harper won't comment on the remarks made by Dinning's grieving father. Turner, Payne, Dinning and Bombardier Myles Mansell were killed April 22 when their light armoured vehicle was hit by a roadside bomb near Gumbad, north of Kandahar.
Judging from his recent actions, the Canadian Prime Minister seems intent on following the incredibly successful template for international military and diplomatic success laid out by George W. Bush.
While he's at it, perhaps he should ask Kobe Bryant for dating tips and Stevie Wonder for a haircut.
While Harper's shameless, witless, policy plagiarism should elicit derision, the human cost of his folly is no joke.
Like George W. Bush, the tough-talking Stephen Harper is adept at using troops for photo-ops, but when it comes time to honour them after they've made the ultimate sacrifice, he's nowhere to be found. While he pledges someone else's child will not "cut and run", he himself cuts and runs from the grieving parents of fallen soldiers.
Like George W. Bush, Harper has banned the press from photographing flag-draped coffins...
Stephen Harper's government has also discontinued the practice of lowering the flag to half-mast to honour fallen troops--more Bushlike "Strategery".
Do you think you can play this country for fools, Mr. Harper? Do you think you can pour a bottle of antiseptic over this whole foolish endeavour and make this war seem painless?
It isn't, Mr. Harper, and you can't.
From the Hamilton Spectator:
At the funeral for Corporal Matthew Dinning in the southwestern Ontario town of Wingham on Saturday, Lincoln Dinning projected home movies of his late son on a large video screen, with the final images showing his son's remains returning to CFB Trenton.
"Now I'd like to show you some of the video that Mr. Harper wouldn't let you see close up of Matthew's arrival home," Dinning told mourners Saturday.
He added that his late son had been angry about the federal government's decision not to lower flags to half-mast on the death of a Canadian soldier.
Sandra Buckler, Harper's head of communications, told The Canadian Press yesterday that Harper won't comment on the remarks made by Dinning's grieving father. Turner, Payne, Dinning and Bombardier Myles Mansell were killed April 22 when their light armoured vehicle was hit by a roadside bomb near Gumbad, north of Kandahar.
