Posted on 01/30/2003 3:45:41 PM PST by demlosers
OTTAWA, Jan 30 (Reuters) - A left-leaning Canadian legislator, infuriated by what she calls Washington's hypocrisy over Iraq, said on Thursday she would lead a team of volunteer arms "inspectors" to the United States next month to seek out weapons of mass destruction.
Libby Davies, member of Parliament for the New Democratic Party, said U.S. President George W. Bush posed just as much danger to the world as Iraqi President Saddam Hussein, who faces the prospect of an imminent U.S.-led attack.
"Our action challenges the hypocrisy of the U.S. president's stance on weapons of mass destruction," she said.
"Our mission is to draw attention to the fact that there are weapons of mass destruction -- for example, about 15,000 nuclear warheads -- in the United States that pose a massive threat to global peace," she told reporters.
Davies, acting on behalf of a new international coalition called Rooting Out Evil, said the inspectors would travel to the Washington area on Feb. 22.
Coalition organizers said the United States was guilty of the same charges it had leveled against Iraq -- namely, it had massive stockpiles of deadly weapons, was ignoring the United Nations and refused to honor international treaties.
"We're following Bush's lead and demanding that the U.S. grant our inspectors immediate and unfettered access to any site in the country," said Rooting Out Evil organizer Christy Ferguson, adding the group would soon send a formal inspection request to U.S. Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld.
No one was immediately available for comment at the U.S. Embassy in Ottawa.
I know that. And you seem to be of a mind that my country is someone you need to be saved by.
My country is only slightly less socialistic that your country. My country is screwed up so badly it may never recover it's roots, namely small limited government, individual liberty and personal responsibility.
Why don't you try to save your own country from ruin and I'll try to save mine from ruin. One mess being replaced by another mess, particularly by invasion as one poster proposes, seriously or not, is a piss poor idea.
When we are free again, I'll look down my nose at you if you aren't, not a minute before. The only thing worse than being arrogant is arrogance without accomplishment. Just my opinion, I have nothing further to say on the subject.
That is the wittiest, most truthful comment I've heard in a while...Bravo to you!
Wow, thank you very much! Just my little bit of ha-ha-only-serious.
FReegards,
Slings and Arrows
These anti-war flakes are becoming so detached from reality it's pathetic.
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