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Bushwhacked
Western democracies deny George W. in hour of need
By PAUL JACKSON - Calgary Sun
October 8, 2002
The most unconscionable and cowardly act of the past decade has to be the betrayal of President George W. Bush by virtually every country in the western democratic world.
Canada, by the way, is right up there at the top of the list with the likes of France and Germany.
Which is why Canadians will, along with other weak-kneed pacifist nations, likely pay for the lack of moral fibre of our own politicians.
Iraqi President Saddam Hussein and his Islamic terrorist cohorts have told us exactly what they want to do: Destroy us all by any means possible. And they are developing those means with hurtling production of chemical, biological and nuclear weapons. Along the way, they intend to make us quake with hit-and-run attacks of the Sept. 11 variety.
Bush, who is far more intelligent and resolute than his critics credit him, has declared that the U.S., alone if necessary, is not going to capitulate to this barbarism.
Britain, with Tony Blair at the helm, is seemingly alone in standing steadfast with Bush.
Bill Graham, our foreign affairs minister, is weaseling all the way, doing an imitation of British prime minister Neville Chamberlain, who basically figured if you were nice to Adolf Hitler, he might start being a loving family man.
Startlingly, it is now presumed that the brains of Jean Chretien, Graham's boss, are so addled, the prime minister really doesn't know what is going on from one day to the next.
So Graham can bamboozle Chretien any day of the week and the prime minister is no wiser.
Basically, nations such as Canada, France, Germany and other western 'allies' are playing the Czechoslovakian gambit, which consisted in the 1930s of turning our backs on that nation when Hitler decided to carve it up, and pretending we didn't notice.
With that, they hoped against hope Hitler would be satisfied and wouldn't bother them.
Their perfidy resulted in the Second World War, in which all their countries were ravaged from top to bottom and husbands, wives and children died in the hundreds of thousands.
The same cowardly attitude occurred after the war when Soviet dictator Josef Stalin took over Eastern Europe and turned it into one vast prison camp for the next half century.
Rather than do the honourable thing and force Stalin out, we just watched our own backs and prayed like the moral paupers we were.
The UN is, of course, not only the globe's most elegant cocktail party lounge of every diplomatic coward in the world, but the rathole of terrorist regimes.
These Third World bandit states frequently force resolutions condemning Israel - aside from the U.S., the favourite target of the terrorist mobs - as being a nation destined for destruction.
Graham pontificates that Canada will only back action against the Iraqi dictator if the UN agrees to such action - all the while knowing since the world body has been hijacked by anti-western rogue nations, the UN has no intention of doing so.
In the National Post on Oct. 4, there was a quite amazing article "We must now commit to regime change," contending that unless Canada committed itself to standing by the U.S. in its hour of need, our future postures would be irrelevant. It was an amazing article because it was penned by Tom Axworthy, once one of Pierre Trudeau's closest and most fawning aides.
Yet, Axworthy, brother of former lib-left - and decidedly anti-American - foreign minister Lloyd Axworthy, now declares our country has a moral responsibility to back Bush and Britain and oust Saddam from power.
Not to do so, says Axworthy, in a piece that is almost poetic in its rationale, would be to abdicate our responsibility to the victims of past world atrocities. Axworthy actually contends the "liberal left" has a duty to itself to fight terrorism and power-mad regimes. He calls on "progressives" everywhere to gird their loins for a battle for humanity.
One wishes this piece was read and absorbed by the Chretien cabinet and, indeed, members of all of Canada's political parties. As with Hitler and Stalin, we either deal with Saddam, and the ilk of Osama bin Laden, now, or they will surely deal with us. For, if we don't, when our cities and peoples are laid low from chemical or nuclear attacks, it will be too late for regrets.
Too late to write our own history, too.
Jackson, associate editor of the Sun, can be reached at paul.jackson@calgarysun.com. Letters to the editor should be sent to callet@sunpub.com.
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