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| OTHER RODENT SILENT ON KING RAT'S 'COMING OUT' - Saturday, December 20, 2003 at 11:31 |
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PUBLICATION: The Winnipeg Sun ---------------------------------------------------------------------- King Rat (Saddam) emerges from his rat hole on Saturday, and almost every politician goes to the cameras, microphones or computers. All except one. Has anyone heard from le petit gerbil from Shawinigan, Jean Chretien? Did he tell anyone how happy he was to see Saddam in captivity? He was crowing (can a rodent crow? Yes, silly; this isn't Hinterland's Who's Who -- this is a newspaper column) only a few weeks ago about how pleased he was with himself for keeping Canada out of Iraq. Had Jean Chretien had his way, Saddam would have been in a palace across the river from the rat hole he was hiding in. Does anyone find it curious that Chretien's government came up with a gun registry largely to appease Montrealers convinced that it was the best way to avoid a future Marc Lepine? Lepine was the deranged individual who killed 14 women on the campus of a Montreal university 14 Decembers ago. Chretien, on the murdered backs of those young women, came up with a policy that is about as effective against a mass murderer as a United Nations non-resolution. Nevertheless, Chretien signed off on a gun registry which is sure to stuff billions of Canadian tax dollars down an ever-expanding rat hole. While Chretien was willing to spend vast amounts of Canadian treasure on "feel good" nonsense, he was not willing to do good by attacking Saddam Hussein, a mass murderer who executed 300 times as many people as were killed during the Sept. 11 attacks -- and 90,000 times as many as were gunned down 14 Decembers ago in Montreal. PAUL MARTIN is the new caretaker of the ancient regime that has ruled the land for more than 30 of the last 40 years. He has paid lip service to the notion that the West feels alienated. His new finance minister is from Saskatchewan. His new treasurer is Winnipeg South MP Reg Alcock (Attaboy Reg! If you can find the rat holes where the bodies are buried, I've got a gig for you with Uncle Sam's 4th Infantry). And get this, folks. His new deputy PM is Anne McLellan from Edmonton. She is in charge of homeland security, or whatever the Martin marionettes are calling the portfolio. The gun registry is one of the rats in the McLellan barn. Annie, get your registered gun! Kill that rat before it kills all of us. AM I, a true blue Canadian, supposed to be upset because Uncle Sam doesn't want Canadian or French or German or Russian companies to share the booty that is known as Iraqi reconstruction? No bodies. No booty. Anything complicated about this? Is it the entitlement mentality of the welfare state that gives us the impression that we are supposed to get somethin' for nothin'? Paul Martin had a 16-minute conversation with Dubya, and we are told at least three minutes were dedicated to the issue. Hey, Prime Minister. May I wrap up the issue for you in one sentence. In the Iraq war, Canada was AWOL. So now we are SOL. WHY WAS anyone surprised that Saddam didn't turn his gun on an American GI or turn it on himself? The yellow-bellied bully, no different than so many others, lived like a coward and so he was captured like one. Yes, he called for Jihadists to sacrifice themselves for him. But he would never do the same for them. Imagine how much stronger that cause would be had he "martyred" himself.
The ultimate plea agreement for him is to reveal where he hid weapons of mass destruction, either in Iraq or elsewhere. In return, King Rat would be allowed to live out the rest of his years in something a lot more spacious than the rat hole from whence he surfaced. Charles Adler is a Sun columnist and host of CJOB's Adler On Line; he runs Tuesday and Saturday. |