Meet Paul Martin
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Canadian Prime Minister Paul Martin seems to lack the insouciant sangfroid of his predecessor regarding the terrorist threat: "WMD threat: PM":
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Prime Minister Paul Martin says he believes Saddam Hussein had weapons of mass destruction and they've fallen into terrorists' hands.<font size=3> Martin said the threat of terrorism is even greater now than it was following the attacks of Sept. 11, 2001, because terrorists have acquired nuclear, chemical and biological weapons from the toppled Iraqi leader.
"The fact is that there is now, we know well, a proliferation of nuclear weapons, and that many weapons that Saddam Hussein had, we don't know where they are," Martin told a crowd of about 700 university researchers and business leaders in Montreal. "That means terrorists have access to all of that."...
"I believe that terrorism will be, for our generation, what the Cold War was to generations that preceded us," he said. "I don't think we're out of it yet."
Martin disagreed with former prime minister Jean Chretien, who publicly blamed poverty for terrorism and the Sept. 11 attacks. "The cause of terrorism is not poverty, it is hatred."
Next thing you know, he'll start worrying out loud about Canada's hospitality to radical Islam. In the meantime, it would be nice if his views were reported in the press south of the border. (Courtesy of reader Jan Carpenter.) |
