Canada's opposition refuses to send condolences to Arafat's family.

[Wat_Tyler]

http://www.theglobeandmail.com/servlet/story/RTGAM.20041123.wxstockwell1123/BNStory/National/

Conservative Party officials scrambled yesterday to explain an e-mail from Stockwell Day after he referred to an article on Yasser Arafat's terrorist past and to rumours that he may have had AIDS as reasons for not sending condolences upon his death.

"Some of you have asked why I have not released a statement of condolence or sympathy," Mr. Day, who is his party's foreign affairs critic, said in an e-mail to Conservative MPs and constituency officials. "As you know, there are two sides to the Arafat story. You pick."

Mr. Day then attached an article by conservative commentator David Frum, who goes on at length about Mr. Arafat's support for terrorism and makes a reference to rumours that he may have had AIDS.

In the piece, Mr. Frum describes the symptoms of Mr. Arafat's disease, compares them to AIDS and then questions the media's "astonishing lack of curiosity" about the cause of his death. He also spends considerable time describing Mr. Arafat's violent past and success in convincing the media to take a sympathetic view of the Palestinian side of the Mideast conflict.

Geoff Norquay, who acts as Conservative Party Leader Stephen Harper's communications director, referred to the matter as an "old story."

He noted that Mr. Day was not the author of the article, adding, "I don't think too much should be read into the fact that he sent it around."

[Feathered Fish]

1. LOL!

I know a couple of winners when I see them. Oops, I mean wieners. Has Stockwell Day finally lost all his faculties?

[Wat_Tyler]

2. The question is whether he had those faculties in the first place.

Debateable, IMHO.

[CatBoreal]

3. He had a limited supply.

And it was used up trying to figure out how to use that Sea-doo.

Cam

[whistle]

4. I understand that Canada also a strong neo-conservative movement...

....underway, complete with the same fundamentalist idiocy of religious dogma and so called "moral values". I'm not sure if the Canadian fundies embrace the idea of cretinism (excuse me, creationism) and would force that agenda on the Canadian people. I won't be surprised if Canada goes the same route that the U.S. has gone over the next four years.

[Wat_Tyler]

5. They peaked of late, and are now returning to the traditional Cdn model

Day is a throwback.

[Spazito]

6. Nope, isn't going to happen...

the faux conservatives will split yet again and marginalize themselves.

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[Wat_Tyler]

12. Oh, I won't be kicking anyone off.

But if you come here looking for a fight, your stay will be a short one.

Hint - 'I hope he burns in hell' is the very definition of 'looking for a fight'.

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[Wat_Tyler]

14. No, I'm saying that you are looking for a fight by being inflammatory

And, you are.

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[Commie Pinko Dirtbag]

9. I won't even bother Obi with this.

Even MY feeble connection to the Force is enough.

[Beware the Beast Man]

17. defecto???

:eyes:

[glarius]

10. Stock Day is a JOKE. I canstill see him in his leather suit on his sea doo

trying to look like he's rugged and brave!....We laughed at him then and I laugh at him now....HE'S A JOKE!!!

[CatBoreal]

18. Who could forget...

or



And people say Carolyn Parrish is an embarasment....:eyes:

Cam

[ShaneGR]

19. Why should they send anything? He was a terrorist and a thief?

Arafat embraced terrorism over peaceful negotiation and funneled millions of the Palestinians money to international accounts. So why should anyone feel bad for his wife, who's scheduled to get 20 million a month out of that stolen cash?

[Wat_Tyler]

20. 20 million a month?

I didn't see that reported in the press. Did you find a link on that?

[tigereye]

21. and he was a very wealthy man

his death provided a lot of history about his past. Interesting that he was able to rise to such a level of power in the first place and be viewed as both a savior of the Palestinians ( the man was brilliant at getting world attention, whatever his methods) and villified for all the death and destruction he caused. It seems that his ego in the end was much more important than the actual fate of the people he purported to serve.