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I WANT YOU, JACK LAYTON, TO SMARTEN UP!

Everybody Up!

Guess what day it is? That's right! The time has come again...It's the 5th year anniversary of 9/11. "The day the world stopped turning", the entire cause of our constant fear of car-bombs, airplanes and suicide-bombing maniacs...or so it seems.

Ergo, it only seems fitting that I should have a rant prepared for you, my ever-dwindling readers. However, this time around...my foreign audience is going to have a harder time relating, my apologies. It's also fitting, because the distant cause of the whole incident that this rant is based around, is Sept. 11th, 2001. This one goes out to Jack Layton.

Now Mr. Layton is the leader of a Canadian Political party who call themselves the N.D.P...or New Democratic Party. It's kind of funny though, because Jack seems to have taken the term "Party" a bit too literally. Last time we had a Federal Election, the NDP was having celebrations and, well...Parties. I recall seeing Mr. Layton and his running Deputy Prime-Minister on a stage, under yellow and green lights, doing Karaoke...during a party-gathering. Now maybe I'm being too serious, but I don't particularly want MY country to be run by anyone who sings as terribly as Jack Layton. Reason #3,084,296.073- Every province that they NDP has won and put a Premier into, has gone BANKRUPT! Look at "Beautiful British Columbia"! The NDP ran it dry! It's taken years for BC to get back on track, lucky for them...they have all sorts of things to fall back onto for economic issues.

Sorry...I got a bit side-tracked there. This isn't to diss the NDP...Well, not directly anyways. No, I'm here to rant my extreme anger with Jack friggin' Layton, over a comment he made the other day. I'll spare you having to decipher the Political Mumbo-Jumbo...Essentially, Jack and his crew have decided that Canada should not be in Afghanistan. The casualties are beginning to rise, and the pseudo-Humanist Layton decides that we should pull out now. Well I'm sorry. I may be a 16 year old, self-proclaimed Know-it-all...and having been born and raised in a Military family (Hell, my father was doing his second peace-keeping tour in Cyprus when I was BORN!), I know that that is simply not an option. For all you peacemongers out there, I don't want to hear it. YES, soldiers losing their lives is tragic...My Father is a soldier. I grieve every soldier who is wounded, even moreso killed. But soldiers know the risks when they sign up, they train for it every day. That's what being a soldier means.

Also, the media doesn't help at all. The media likes to focus on the negative. Always has, always will. They report every Canadian death, all the while saying that things will only get worse. That the insurgency is becoming more and more aggressive everyday. What they don't report...is that 85% of Afghanistan is back under control. The Canadian base is in the 15% that is still controlled by bandits...no wonder we're facing heavy resistance. The insurgents can't go back to the other areas, so they're trapped in this pocket in the desert...it's essentially their last stand. We're winning. But the media doesn't want to show that...'cause it won't sell papers as much as the grief-soaked tabloids that have pictures of crying wives and mothers smeared overtop of caskets covered in Canadian flags...
And so, Jack Layton decides that we should pull out of Afghanistan. Whether he honestly thinks that, or if it's to try and appeal to all the uninformed people who think that they're knowledge of deaths in the Middle-East is good enough to ruin Military tactics and decisions that have helped rebuild a country.
We can't just pull out now. If we did, the insurgents would take over again...Think about it, if the Allies had've stopped fighting in WWII because the casualties (great band, by the way...) were getting too great, where would the world be? Hitler would've taken over and we'd all be royally screwed by a dude with a funny moustache.
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Now, before I end up ranting on and on without end, I'll finish this up.
Jack, we can't just pick up and leave...So shut up. I say we send you and your Democratic Minions over to Afghanistan for a few months like they did for my Father, and when you shoot yourself in the foot just so you can go home and join the casualty list, we'll all point and laugh at you and replay footage of your terrible singing for the country all over again.

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