With everything going south in the American capital, its a wonder that our neighbors to the north have managed to stay above the fray and not let this misbegotten mess called the Bush Doctrine get to them.
Eh? Sea-Dogged By Controversy by Daniel Tencer, maisonneuve.org, December 19, 2006 Lacrosse may be Canadas official sport, but the true passion of all red-blooded, icicle-nosed Canadians is hockey. Few things are as closely tied to Canadas self-image as our love forand our excellence inthe game, so its natural for some people to conflate hockey with Canadian politics. (Just think Don Cherry.) This certainly seems to be the case with the Saint John Sea Dogs, the junior hockey team from New Brunswick that has fired a player who refused to sign a Canadian flag being sent to Canadian troops in Afghanistan. Morally, we have standards with this hockey team and thats a standard that we believe in, Sea Dogs coach Jacques Beaulieu told the CBC <http://www.maisonneuve.org/mail/redirect.php?&link_id=489121> , referring to the firing of twenty-year-old Dave Bouchard. As controversy swirled around the Sea Dogs decision yesterday, the team back-tracked <http://www.maisonneuve.org/mail/redirect.php?&link_id=489122> and said that they let Bouchard go because of his weak on-ice performancedespite the fact hes the teams second-highest scorer. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Now, if only we could get the coach of the US team fired for incompetence and mismanagement before he runs the entire country into the ground before spring. The offensive coach was fired but what the fans said on Nov. 07 was that they dont think the head coach knows what hes doing and they dont like his game plan. 121806 CNN poll Support For Iraq War Falls To 31% More than half want US troops out within a year. Nearly three-quarters said Bush administration policy needs a complete overhaul or major changes. But only 11% of those polled backed calls to send more American troops to Iraq, as President Bush is said to be considering. [O]nly 32% of those questioned in Monday's poll said they would support keeping US troops in Iraq "as long as necessary" to hand over control to a new Iraqi government. By comparison, 21% said they wanted to see Americans leave immediately, and 33% said they wanted to see a US withdrawal within a year. Despite that opposition to a continued conflict, a solid majority 59% -- said they opposed any move by Congress to end the war by cutting off spending for the US deployment. But the views of those polled are increasingly pessimistic about the outcome of the war. http://www.cnn.com/POLITICS/blogs/politicalticker/2006/12/cnn-poll-us-suppor t-for-iraq-war-falls.html <http://www.cnn.com/POLITICS/blogs/politicalticker/2006/12/cnn-poll-us-suppo rt-for-iraq-war-falls.html>
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