Comments on: Balkenende: Keeping the Bread Buttered http://womanatmile0.amfresh.ca/afghanistan/dutch-on-keeping-the-bread-buttered/ Tue, 29 Jun 2010 04:15:38 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.2 hourly 1 By: <![CDATA[mushroom]]> http://womanatmile0.amfresh.ca/afghanistan/dutch-on-keeping-the-bread-buttered/comment-page-1/#comment-756 Tue, 12 Jun 2007 19:34:42 +0000 http://womanatmile0.amfresh.ca/mile0/?p=287#comment-756 Local Dippers want the CPC crime bill to pass, especially the stiffer sentences for gun crime. Keeps the NDP local councillors happy, as if tougher sentences will lead to a direct decrease in gun crime. The Dutch will leave Afghanistan sooner than Harper may realize due to the coalition nature of the government. It is a centre left government and it's dedicated towards state building rather than counterinsurgency. Harper's success is dependent on an eventual surge of US-UK forces post-Iraq to bail the Canadians out :( Local Dippers want the CPC crime bill to pass, especially the stiffer sentences for gun crime. Keeps the NDP local councillors happy, as if tougher sentences will lead to a direct decrease in gun crime.

The Dutch will leave Afghanistan sooner than Harper may realize due to the coalition nature of the government. It is a centre left government and it’s dedicated towards state building rather than counterinsurgency. Harper’s success is dependent on an eventual surge of US-UK forces post-Iraq to bail the Canadians out :(

]]> By: <![CDATA[Woman At Mile 0]]> http://womanatmile0.amfresh.ca/afghanistan/dutch-on-keeping-the-bread-buttered/comment-page-1/#comment-759 Tue, 12 Jun 2007 14:19:59 +0000 http://womanatmile0.amfresh.ca/mile0/?p=287#comment-759 It would take all of the opposition to vote this government down. I just received a nice bulk mail letter from my local NDP MP who states that even though this government has some faults (e.g the descimation of child care) they are quite happy to continue working with this government as long as possible to get things done. It's funny though because to date I can't think of one progressive thing this government has done...so I am not sure where all the hopefullness is coming from. Meanwhile Harper keeps shovelling money at Quebec and the Bloc so I really don't see an end to this government before 2009. It would take all of the opposition to vote this government down. I just received a nice bulk mail letter from my local NDP MP who states that even though this government has some faults (e.g the descimation of child care) they are quite happy to continue working with this government as long as possible to get things done. It’s funny though because to date I can’t think of one progressive thing this government has done…so I am not sure where all the hopefullness is coming from. Meanwhile Harper keeps shovelling money at Quebec and the Bloc so I really don’t see an end to this government before 2009.

]]> By: <![CDATA[April Reign]]> http://womanatmile0.amfresh.ca/afghanistan/dutch-on-keeping-the-bread-buttered/comment-page-1/#comment-758 Tue, 12 Jun 2007 13:49:00 +0000 http://womanatmile0.amfresh.ca/mile0/?p=287#comment-758 I bet if we could sent them the war would be over tomorrow. I bet if we could sent them the war would be over tomorrow.

]]> By: <![CDATA[Roberto]]> http://womanatmile0.amfresh.ca/afghanistan/dutch-on-keeping-the-bread-buttered/comment-page-1/#comment-757 Tue, 12 Jun 2007 11:42:56 +0000 http://womanatmile0.amfresh.ca/mile0/?p=287#comment-757 Without strong public support for extension I don't see our troops staying in Afghanisnam past the existing deadline. It's a minority government that probably won't see out February, 2009 itself. Harper doesn't have much to run on in the next election and he'd have to be willing to look tyrannical with 66% opposed to seek a war mandate. There's a real disconnect between the Canadian people and the Afghan war and it's growing. Without strong public support for extension I don’t see our troops staying in Afghanisnam past the existing deadline. It’s a minority government that probably won’t see out February, 2009 itself. Harper doesn’t have much to run on in the next election and he’d have to be willing to look tyrannical with 66% opposed to seek a war mandate. There’s a real disconnect between the Canadian people and the Afghan war and it’s growing.

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