And I the only one who caught this?
...Ignatieff has come around to realizing he was mistaken to support the U.S. invasion of Iraq. So he has finally caught up with the rest of the Liberal Party, although that's not the reason he gives for realizing he was on the wrong side of the question.
Rather, Ignatieff said he had allowed himself to be swayed by his emotions after seeing what Iraqi dictator Saddam Hussein had done to the Kurds and concluding Hussein had to be removed from power.
Too few politicians are willing to admit to being wrong.
Because having seen what Hussein had done the Kurds the correct reaction was to further enable to Hussein regime? Isn't realpolitik grand!
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Because having seen what Hussein had done the Kurds the correct reaction was to further enable to Hussein regime?
How does that follow? Hussein was hindered by a no fly zone over Kurdistan for years before the invasion. The Kurds have been quasi-independent since long before the invasion.
Posted by Greg | August 7, 2007 10:51 AM
Posted on August 7, 2007 10:51
Don’t follow you Greg..Hussein was Tonging on the Kurds for decades before the no fly zone.He even used chemical warfare against them.
..so now Iggy says that although this was wrong, and Saddam was a murderous thug, he has now changed his mind.He should not have been removed from power? Can’t have it both ways..
It seems now that Iggy is attempting to re invent himself as he hones his blade whilst eye balling citoyen Dion.
Posted by kursk | August 7, 2007 11:52 AM
Posted on August 7, 2007 11:52
It is never wrong to remove dictators from power.
Posted by Mark | August 10, 2007 12:26 PM
Posted on August 10, 2007 12:26
So… isn’t Iggy implying that we shouldn’t intervene to stop the oppression and/or annihilation of people groups like the Kurds? I thought conservatives were the “insular” ones.
Posted by mark peters | August 10, 2007 12:27 PM
Posted on August 10, 2007 12:27
“Too few politicians are willing to admit to being wrong.”
You know that’s what I was thinking , what we need in politics in Canaduh is a politician that spent 30 years in the US teaching “human rights” who’s honest enough to admit “that upon serious reconsideration, and a house in Toronto, they’ve discovered, they’re perfectly OK with gassing minorities.”
Iggy for President of Canaduh
richfisher
Posted by richfisher | August 10, 2007 1:06 PM
Posted on August 10, 2007 13:06