Guess they decided to do the China thing and simply deny any wrongdoing on their part.

> I thought the scapegoat thing would have worked a lot better. Feelgood France would've gone for it, so Chretien, because of the oiiiil in the family, would have accepted it as well.

>Now they're gonna cause some diplomats to have to use "stronger language".

We see where this is going, don't we? To diplomats of a socialist government like Chretien's, and to a politician like Chretien, the murder of this woman is, at most, an irritating inconvenience, as it is to the leaders of Iran.

To the Canadian leader, showing deep concern is a political necessity, so it means he and his people will have to go through the motions of carefully scripted, globally significant outrage.

To the theocrats in Teheran, it's a matter of "those clumsy fools! Why didn't they just work over the torso? Internal bleeding would've've been easier to stop. Now we have to play this dumb game with those socialist idiots in the west, just to make the fools at the UN happy."

Now watch the polite little pavane reemerge in the news on a sporadic basis, then begin to show up less and less, until it slides across the back burner and falls down behind the stove.

Doesn't it just make you wanna puke?

No. It makes my blood boil. The sharks in Iran are stifling and killing dissent. There are lots of folks in Canada who are upset with Mr. Chretien, the Socialist Carp Extraordinaire. Not only do the sharks kill dissent, they defile and degrade women, and to do THAT in the name of religion is abominable. Mr. Chretien is a bottomfeeder.

Makes my blood boil too, Cap'n, but in the past 30+ years I've seen so many of the fruits of diplomatic buffoonery first hand that I've got to where I just shake my head and wait for the next act in this insane play called Life On Earth.

Thank God for George Bush, it's great to at last have a CINC who's willing to go outside the bullshit Euro weasel/ UN network to do things that need to get done, and do it without letting moot diplomatic considerations prevent him from a course of direct action where direct action is needed.

That probably won't help, or bring any sort of closure, to Zarah Kazemi's family, but then neither will Jean Chretien's government. Perhaps Canada's government might have carried more weight with the Iranian government had they been coalition members with combat troops on the ground, which would have been a better backdrop to any "strong diplomatic language" than their abstinence in Iraqi Freedom.

Seth and I are driving down to Vegas tonight, we decided, then catching a flight east out of McCarron after a day of desert heat and casinos.

Good chatting.

Catch y'all on the rebound!

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