ChiTown Lady
3rd March 2003, 08:03
link to article: http://www.suntimes.com/output/iraq/cst-nw...nws-ican28.html (http://www.suntimes.com/output/iraq/cst-nws-ican28.html)
This is a good one. She should never have appologized for her original remarks - in my opinion!
I got this article out of today's Chicago Suntimes paper:
Canadian lawmaker: U.S. warmongers 'bastards'
February 28, 2003
BY SHELDON ALBERTS
OTTAWA--Canada's Liberal government faced new accusations of anti-Americanism on Wednesday after a member of Parliament who is an outspoken critic of President Bush said she hated Americans and called
them "bastards" intent on going to war with Iraq.
Carolyn Parrish, the Liberal Parliament member for Mississauga Center in Ontario, later issued a statement apologizing for the comments, which came on a day when Prime Minister Jean Chretien spoke to the U.S. president in an effort to reach a United Nations compromise in the Iraqi crisis.
"Damn Americans. Hate those bastards," Parrish said after the weekly Liberal caucus meeting in Ottawa.
Parrish made the remark at the end of a media scrum in which she told a group of journalists there was no hope Canada could negotiate a deal to avoid war because the Bush administration has no interest in peace.
"Canada has a long tradition of coming up with compromises, and I think if it flies, that is excellent. But I have no hopes for it," she said. "I watched Bush ... on television. That man is ready to go. He doesn't care. He is gunning for a fight. I think Bush is. I think he has got 150,000 troops over there, and I think he has got to do something with them."
Senior government Parliament members immediately distanced themselves from Parrish's statement, and Parrish sent out a news release late Wednesday attempting to clarify her remarks.
"I deeply regret the comments that I made today in the heat of the moment in a private conversation," her statement said. "My comments do not reflect my personal opinion of the American people, and they certainly do not reflect the views of the government of Canada."
National Post
This is a good one. She should never have appologized for her original remarks - in my opinion!
I got this article out of today's Chicago Suntimes paper:
Canadian lawmaker: U.S. warmongers 'bastards'
February 28, 2003
BY SHELDON ALBERTS
OTTAWA--Canada's Liberal government faced new accusations of anti-Americanism on Wednesday after a member of Parliament who is an outspoken critic of President Bush said she hated Americans and called
them "bastards" intent on going to war with Iraq.
Carolyn Parrish, the Liberal Parliament member for Mississauga Center in Ontario, later issued a statement apologizing for the comments, which came on a day when Prime Minister Jean Chretien spoke to the U.S. president in an effort to reach a United Nations compromise in the Iraqi crisis.
"Damn Americans. Hate those bastards," Parrish said after the weekly Liberal caucus meeting in Ottawa.
Parrish made the remark at the end of a media scrum in which she told a group of journalists there was no hope Canada could negotiate a deal to avoid war because the Bush administration has no interest in peace.
"Canada has a long tradition of coming up with compromises, and I think if it flies, that is excellent. But I have no hopes for it," she said. "I watched Bush ... on television. That man is ready to go. He doesn't care. He is gunning for a fight. I think Bush is. I think he has got 150,000 troops over there, and I think he has got to do something with them."
Senior government Parliament members immediately distanced themselves from Parrish's statement, and Parrish sent out a news release late Wednesday attempting to clarify her remarks.
"I deeply regret the comments that I made today in the heat of the moment in a private conversation," her statement said. "My comments do not reflect my personal opinion of the American people, and they certainly do not reflect the views of the government of Canada."
National Post