...“I have serious concerns about this coalition that the United States is putting together” she [Liberal MP Maria Minna] interjected during the hour-long call. “My reaction to this is very negative.… It sounds like this is [Bush’s] counterpart to the coalition of the willing in Iraq. I resent it. We are coming across like we are joining a coalition of the willing in the U.S.” Mr. Graham did not immediately challenge her but in a wrap-up urged MPs to keep their anti-American remarks within caucus. “I have to ask you to be careful what you say,” he said. “They [U.S.] are not going to have our chequebook and they are not going to be telling us what to do … but we also want to be perceived by the world and by our American partners as being as helpful as possible.”
Politics as usual...the Liberal Government wants to be perceived as being as helpful as possible, they don't actually want to be as helpful as possible. (Courtesy of National Post)
