Tom Says: “Steve, Don’t Get Involved!”
Please Mr. Harper, when a lawyer’s letter asking you to intervene in the case of two American deserters crosses your desk, read it and forget it!
Canadians don’t want their country turned into a haven for American deserters.
People have to understand the military is what it is. It’s not a democracy, it’s a dictatorship. You’re not asked whether you agree if the mission is fair and just. You’re not asked if whether you agree if the mission is good or bad. You’re not asked if you agree to whether the mission is right or wrong. You’re not asked to agree or disagree — period. In fact, you’re not asked — you’re told!
Here is the mission soldier — now carry it out!
How can there be any discipline and how can you have any confidence if you’re not sure if the guy on your left or right isn’t going to “cut-and-run” when the chips are down?
George Bush’s war is George Bush’s war. If we as Canadians don’t agree with it, — that is certainly within our right — for us to open the doors to our nation to people who choose not to fight for their own nation would be a slap in the face to the men and women who make up our Armed Forces.
Ask the Chief of the Defence Staff, General Rick Hillier, whether he thinks these two men should be kept in this country? Ask Senator Roméo Dallaire the same question, or ask former Major General Louis Mackenzie what he thinks.
I don’t have to ask them to know what their answer is already.
We’re going to send our service men and women offshore to risk their lives for their country, but what would we say to others who wouldn’t do the same?
“Come on in, you’re welcome here!”
I don’t think so.
A deserter is a deserter, and his or her reason for “deserting” means nothing.
These two men should be sent home as quickly as the paper work can be finished to face the music in the United States.
If Canadians deserted their army and went to the US seeking refugee status we would all hope the American courts and the American political system would do to them what should be done — return them to this country.
Mr. Prime Minister, Canadians are counting on you to get this one right!
I’m Tom Young.
November 15th, 2007 at 7:47 pm
Boy Tom you are hard. Most of these kids, and most are just kids, were tricked into the arm forces under the pretext of getting a chance for advancement as are our youth. If Harper had any guts he would ask the world courts to try Bush on war crimes for invasion of sovern countries. but you and I both know he is so far up Bushes Ass he can’t write in the dark.