“Somehow, either through good luck or good management or voter ignorance, the Conservatives have been able to disassociate their decision in Afghanistan from their overall performance … in the province of Quebec.”
Allan Gregg – From The Globe And Mail, May 6th, 2006
Is Allan Gregg for real? This man is the Chairman of the Strategic Counsel polling organization. How could he be so ignorant of the facts? In his quote above, he makes it sound like it was a Conservative decision to go to Afghanistan. He also makes it sound like anyone who is supportive of the LIBERAL government decision to support the Afghanistan effort was either managed, lucky or ignorant. How insulting could he be? He should shave his goatee and go into hiding with comments like this.
EXCUSE me Mr. Gregg, but Afghanistan is NOT Iraq. Our troops being there was a decision made while the LIBERALS were in power, supported by pretty much every member in the House of Commons after airplanes were used as bombs on September 11th, 2001. Do you remember this day sir? Apparently not.
Your quote, and the Globe and Mail’s shameless promotion of it by bolding it on page A9, today is blatant propaganda. The Tories have done nothing but stand by a decision made by Canada. How can our nation gain any national respect if we are to make commitments to a UN-mandated mission, and then back down when it is our turn to lead said mission? If we walk away from Afghanistan now, it would be the end of the relationship Canada carries around the world as a strong, principled nation that stands up to it’s commitment.
I was disgusted and appauled by the comments made by Gregg. But I was just as disgusted by Richard Blackwell, the G&M reporter, for using the quote without qualifying it. Now I remember why I only read the G&M when I am stuck reading what hotels offer as I am this morning.
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Oh yeah we’re really fishing for respect in Afghanistan.
So you’d sacrifice your people’s lives and liberties to look good to the UN? What kind of pinko collectivist are you.
You know that’s gonna come from a libertarian 🙂
I’m against the use of taxpayers money for government-pimping abroad, even if you call it democracy, no matter how good we look to your precious UN.
For the record I’m against taking the taxpayer’s money period.
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For the record, I never said Afghanistan was good (or bad) I only said that Gregg’s statement making it sound like it was a Conservative decision is plainly misleading.