Great
piece from the Canucks, hitting all the buttons and making all the points.
Incompetence - exacerbated by imperial arrogance and cultural ignorance - turned the occupation into a nightmare.
Now, all those traits are in play in the American plan to ostensibly turn Iraq over to the Iraqis.
The decision to hasten self-rule has little to do with installing real democracy. That's the patina the president needs to cover the panic suddenly gripping the White House.
Exactly. At least the Canadians get to understand the whole story. grace not from Chretien.
"It was because of our deep belief as Canadians in the values of multilateralism and the United Nations that we did not go to war in Iraq."
? Jean Chrétien, to a standing ovation during his farewell speech at the Liberal convention in Toronto.