Rallies across country urge Ottawa to bring troops home from Afghanist

[gerryhatrick]

(CP) - Driving wind, stubborn rain and even the season's first snowfall couldn't keep hundreds of people from taking part in rallies Saturday urging the federal government to bring Canadian troops home from Afghanistan.

Protesters gathered in cities across the country to express their unhappiness with the mission in that country.

In Toronto, several hundred people huddled outside the U.S. Consulate as NDP Leader Jack Layton repeated his call for Canadian troops to be brought home.

"(The mission is) not well constructed, it's unbalanced, we're putting ten times as much into the military side as we are into aid, and we now have famine and real problems spreading in Afghanistan," he told the crowd through the rain.

"It's time for Canada to take a new path."

rest here ---> http://www.cjad.com/node/430372

I'm think it's fantastic to see people out on the street expressing their views on the matter.

[B. Max]

Looks like a good place for a machine gun. C'mon gerry, they're all leftwing radicals. I took a look at one of the organizers. The guy could easily be up for some sickle swinger of the year award. Do you think Harper is going to pay any attention that.

[gerryhatrick]

Looks like a good place for a machine gun.

That's a little ignorant and hateful, and perhaps illegal.

C'mon gerry, they're all leftwing radicals.

No you c'mon bmax. You don't know what they all are. You know nothing about them.

What about the counter protesters? Are they "right wing radicals"?

[Ricki Bobbi]

That's a little ignorant and hateful, and perhaps illegal.

Yet again going after the behaviour of others without looking at your own?

[watching&waiting]

If that is the extent of the support for bringing the troops home, then they will be there for many years. Just another sad attempt by the left and brainless trying to impose their will on the rest of us. Just sooo sad. But it once again just shows how some people here will post anything, just to feed an agenda. To bad our soldiers are fighting for their right to make such posts. I would like it much better if we could send these people over there to fight on the front lines. Maybe then they would finally use their brains or spill them all over. Either way it would make Canada a better place.

[betsy]

I'm think it's fantastic to see people out on the street expressing their views on the matter.

Jack Layton surely did a lot of expressing.

[Ricki Bobbi]

I'm think it's fantastic to see people out on the street expressing their views on the matter.

Something tells me you only think it's fantastic because they expressed views you agree with...

[gerryhatrick]

I'm think it's fantastic to see people out on the street expressing their views on the matter.

Something tells me you only think it's fantastic because they expressed views you agree with...

By your ealier post, I assume you think it's ok for someone to take a machine gun to a peace rally? I call others on unacceptable behaviour Ricki. You call people on using special characters. Slight difference.

And here again you're choosing to make ME the topic instead of the news event. Why do you think I or anyone else cares what you think I think?

[Ricki Bobbi]

And here again you're choosing to make ME the topic instead of the news event. Why do you think I or anyone else cares what you think I think?

Because you follow me around and endelssly harass me. Please answer the questions I pose or ignore my posts...

[B. Max]

By your ealier post, I assume you think it's ok for someone to take a machine gun to a peace rally? I call others on unacceptable behaviour Ricki. You call people on using special characters. Slight difference.

Stop putting words in other peoples mouths gerry. Just last week you wanted to get rid of the right in the country and that came from your mouth.

[Shakeyhands]

Because you follow me around and endelssly harass me. Please answer the questions I pose or ignore my posts...

Are you serious Ricki? Thats rich, to say the least. You are obsessed. Get help.

[gerryhatrick]

Stop putting words in other peoples mouths gerry.

He critisized me for "going after" your "behavior", which was to suggest that a machine gun be taken to the rallies today.

Making threats against peoples lives is illegal and hateful. Don't do it anymore please.

[B. Max]

He critisized me for "going after" your "behavior", which was to suggest that a machine gun be taken to the rallies today.

No gerry he never suggested any such thing. You're like the liberal appointments of supreme idiots, you like to read in things that aren't there.

Making threats against peoples lives is illegal and hateful. Don't do it anymore please.

First, that was not a threat it was an expression of contempt for what they stand for. Second, I'll decide.

[gerryhatrick]

First, that was not a threat it was an expression of contempt for what they stand for. Second, I'll decide.

You won't decide if you get banned. It was an open threat. Trying to now say it was just an "expression of contempt" is silly.

[B. Max]

First, that was not a threat it was an expression of contempt for what they stand for. Second, I'll decide.

You won't decide if you get banned. It was an open threat. Trying to now say it was just an "expression of contempt" is silly.

Is that a threat.

[gerryhatrick]

First, that was not a threat it was an expression of contempt for what they stand for. Second, I'll decide.

You won't decide if you get banned. It was an open threat. Trying to now say it was just an "expression of contempt" is silly.

Is that a threat.

I don't decide who is banned here. If I did you would certainly be gone for saying that a machine gun should be taken to the peaceful rallies held in Canada today.

[B. Max]

First, that was not a threat it was an expression of contempt for what they stand for. Second, I'll decide.

You won't decide if you get banned. It was an open threat. Trying to now say it was just an "expression of contempt" is silly.

Is that a threat.

I don't decide who is banned here. If I did you would certainly be gone for saying that a machine gun should be taken to the peaceful rallies held in Canada today.

Stop reading things in gerry. I guess you would have to ban youself for suggesting genocide against the right in this country.

[seabee]

Anglo-Americans (both U.S. and English-Canada) decided to use military force to implant democracy in Afghanistan and then in Iraq. Some canadian soldiers died in the process, in the name of democracy. And the same people, living in a democratic country, upon hearing that there are lawful peaceful dissenters in that very democratic country, using a machine gun against those dissenters. If this is democracy, the Talibans and Sadam were already using it.

[B. Max]

Anglo-Americans (both U.S. and English-Canada) decided to use military force to implant democracy in Afghanistan and then in Iraq. Some canadian soldiers died in the process, in the name of democracy. And the same people, living in a democratic country, upon hearing that there are lawful peaceful dissenters in that very democratic country, using a machine gun against those dissenters. If this is democracy, the Talibans and Sadam were already using it.

I guess your version of democracy doesn't include contempt for what I see as well organized traitors trying to undermine the mission.

As far as democracy goes I'm not that big of a fan.

"...democracies have ever been spectacles of turbulence and contention; have ever been found incompatible with personal security or the rights of property; and have in general been as short in their lives as they have been violent in their deaths."

--James Madison, Federalist No. 10 (arguing in favor of a constitutional republic)

[killjoy]

"Canadians are not well informed," said George, a Lebanese-Canadian who didn't want his last name used. "Each time a Canadian dies, they talk about it for three days, and they are not saying what the Canadians are doing good in Afghanistan."

yyyyyep.

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[jdobbin]

I guess your version of democracy doesn't include contempt for what I see as well organized traitors trying to undermine the mission.

As far as democracy goes I'm not that big of a fan.

"...democracies have ever been spectacles of turbulence and contention; have ever been found incompatible with personal security or the rights of property; and have in general been as short in their lives as they have been violent in their deaths."

--James Madison, Federalist No. 10 (arguing in favor of a constitutional republic)

Does your version of government include property rights like slavery as did Madison's?

[Who's Doing What?]

Instead of out protesting maybe these people should have each donated a couple of bucks and sent a nice care package over to a battalion stationed in Afghanistan. Freaking ingrates.

Those people are fighting over there so we don't get bombed over here. Don't make a soldier's death meaningless by not finishing the job. This is an honourable fight, unlike Iraq, and it should be seen though.

[B. Max]

Does your version of government include property rights like slavery as did Madison's?

What!

[Canadian Blue]

When did we get into the combat role I seem to forget.

http://www.ctv.ca/servlet/ArticleNews/stor...me=&no_ads=

2005, damned Harper government. Why would we ever elect them in 2005!!!

As for the protestors, 500 people out 32,000,000 isn't that big of a deal to me. Especially when they have some Officer Cadet that was a reservist, who wasn't being sent to Afghanistan, saying he is a war resister and left the military because he disagreed with Afghanistan . What a load of BS, he should be ashamed of himself for trying to be a hero when he wasn't even in danger to begin with.

[gerryhatrick]

As for the protestors, 500 people out 32,000,000

I think we're at 33,000,000 now, and there were far more than 500 rally participants accross Canada.