Terrorism alert--Don't worry, Jean Chretien and Pierre Pettigrew are on the case

Bud Talkinghorn: Even on Friday, you can't keep a good man down. NJC


You remember Chretien. He was the PM who got the master al-Queda terrorist Khadr out of a prison hospital in Pakistan. The Pakistanis believed firmly that Khadr was part of the group that bombed the Egyptian embassy in Islamabad. "No, no," Chretien claimed, "he was just a pious Canadian Muslim trying to help the dispossessed". Chretien never apologized when it was shown that, no, no, the man was a fanatical terrorist, along with his entire family. There were greater heights of international tomfoolery to which Chretien ascended. When he went to some meeting in Lebanon--ruthlessly ruled by the Syrians--he shook hands with Sheik Nassrallah, the head of Hezbollah, and had an amiable chat with him. When later told that Hezvollah was one of the major terrorist organizations in the Middle East, he said, "How would I know?" That comment seems to cast a larger net of ignorance, if his foreign affairs handlers couldn't have pointed that fact out. Still, this is the man, who must have seen the videos of the vicious pepper spraying / pepper gassing of protesters in Vancouver, and could make the simple-minded statement about it, "For me, I always like pepper on my steak."

Now Chretien's old buddy, Nasrallah, has publicly come out with the statement that Hezbollah has 12,000 rockets it is ready to launch into Israel. The same day, the Israelis released secret tapes they had seized from Hezbollah showing extremely detailed methods of how to rig up suicide vests to blow up Israelis on buses. They even had a tape of a real bus, with a mannequin wearing such a vest. It explained where to stand to inflict maximum damage. It also showed the bus blowing up and the analytical evidence of how it would have effectively dismembered a huge number of riders. The tape went on to show how everyday chemicals could be turned into bombs. It is beyond shameful to see how our PM could be so easily duped into colluding with such monsters.

In the same tradition, Canadians have our current foreign minister, Pierre Pettigrew, refusing to name Hamas, Hezbollah's accomplices, as a terrorist threat. This is an organization that publically accepts credit for endless suicide attacks and whose raison d'etre is the total destruction of Israel.

Pettigrew wants to see how they do in the up-coming elections in Palestine. Pierre Pettigrew is the sort of man, who in 1945, would have waited to see whether the Germans still would vote in Hitler, before condemning the Nazis. It's enough to make you weep.

© Bud Talkinghorn

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