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Politics : Canadian Political Free-for-All -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: seismic_guru who wrote (2407)	4/10/2003 7:15:31 PM
From: SofaSpud	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 37068

I maintain that in Calgary the canadian alliance could run a fern tree for office and win. Not quite, since Joe Clark beat Eric Lowther in Calgary Centre last time. Lowther was quite a good MP.

To: seismic_guru who wrote (2407)	4/11/2003 9:04:20 AM
From: Ally	Respond to of 37068

Calgary is to Canada as Texas is to U.S. Not that it's bad to be a cowboy (contrary to the wisdom in the song "mama don't let your sons grow up to be cowboys"), its just that the world has evolved from cattle and oil to patents and factories. Canadians see Harper walk the same walk as the Lone Ranger, straddled with a Clint Eastwood colt hung low. Harper today was harping about Canada not providing "policing service" to stop the looting and lawlessness of the freed natives in Iraq. Hello! How can we do this without being invited first by Lone Ranger and Tonto? Harper wants to score early points, however we see him spouting blanks. Talking of Lone Ranger and Tonto, the easy "shock and awe" part is over. The invasion had little international support (unless we count the ones that don't count - the small new countries from the previous Communist regimes eager and quick to suck up to Lone Ranger), and now there is confusion and delays on the infrastructures needed after a war. One would have thought that the plans to invade a dictator's country will have gone beyond the weapons of shock and awe. Invaders have the responsibility under International Law to provide not only humanitarian help, but also the infrastructure to maintain law and order. We see looters grabbing piles of money from banks and breaking into stores and businesses (of course, only on CBC... CNN is too busy glorifying umpteen re-runs of toppling Saddam statues.) We also learn that the natives are not pleased with the three early choices of native leaders. They murdered the cleric leader who was supposed to head the Nariyab region, and they ransacked the home of the Arab Sheik chosen to administer in Basra. Meanwhile, Chaliba, the chosen one, is quickly hustled away by body guards after making a speech. It's an ominous sign, albeit early, that while the natives are celebrating the end of a dictator's reign, they have not been pleased with the Lone Ranger's selections to replace him. Stay tune... the saga is far from over. We'll be busy witnessing how it unfolds in the next two to five years. Hopefully it is not going to take this long for the limp market hobble back to fitness.