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Obama: Libya is Not Iraq

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Buck3/30/2011 9:52:53 am PDT

OK, once again the sniper Obdicut likes to find something way off topic to debate, instead of the topic set in front of him

Basically it is a form of strawman…. unable to even remember what the heck I was talking about, he tries to find something else to discuss. Usually bringing up something from my history that he can distort. Like he does with my opinion that once in a war, a country should do everything they can to defeat the enemy until they surrender. That doing anything else (decades of ceasefires for example) only prolongs the war, and ultimately is greater harm. NOT “a war by Israel, backed by the US and any other nation that will join, against every other nation in the Middle East”. A “war by Israel” is code for Israel starts a war. I simply suggest that Israel should not stop fighting the war that is brought to them, until the other side surrenders.

Now to Rwanda, which is way off topic. Romo Antonius Dallaire is Canadian, and therefore Canada had a special responsibility in Rwanda 1994. In 1994 Jean Chretien was Prime Minister and had a large parliamentary majority. Obdicut points out that the PC party was in power in 1993. What that has to do with 1994, he does not explain. BUT most importantly Obdicut does not imagine that the Party and it’s policies might have shifted in the past 20 years. The Progressive Conservative party was not at all like it is today. It was more progressive than conservative. Stephen Harper was not the leader of the PC party in 1994. I did not change my vote in 1994. However, as I stated the events of 1994 did play a large role in how I vote today.

There are other factors as well. Voting in the UN for example. Where the Liberal party has almost always abstained when voting on matter related to Israel, the Conservatives, under Harper are voting to support Israel.

What would Harper have done in 1994 regarding Rwanda? No one can know for sure, BUT based on his actions and speeches in the recent past, I think he would have acted to support Romo Antonius Dallaire, and not ignore him.