This seems a no-brainer requiring discipline actions but expect nothing of the sort:
...in an email to reporters on Saturday, Guergis discussed plans of Dion and deputy Liberal leader Michael Ignatieff to visit the Provincial Reconstruction Team before the two men revealed them. In her email, Guergis said Dion has not fully supported Canadian troops in the Afghan mission, and found it ironic that these same troops were protecting the Liberal leader when he toured the Provincial Reconstruction Team. Dion urged the Prime Minister to drop Guergis from cabinet for "revealing secret information" for partisan political gain.Politicizing the soldiers in Afghanistan by saying only persons of your policy on the war "support" them is an embarrassment and, to trot out a new phrase invented by Minister MacKay, unCanadian. Spilling the beans on a dangerous matter like any visit by any official in a war zone for partisan purposes is cowardly and something of a train wreck in slow motion.
Expect blame to be placed elsewhere as usual.
Comments
Hans - January 17, 2008 9:14 am
Even I am surprised at how low a manoevre that is. Truly dispicable.
Paul of Kingston - January 17, 2008 9:34 am
Ick. We need a political reset button and fast.
Mark Wakolofski - January 21, 2008 1:48 am
Did anyone actually see what Helena said? Her quote was aired on CBC and she was demanding Dion apologize to our troops on the ground because the idiot had submitted all of his personal conclusions and those of the Liberal party to the independenet afghan panel (headed by Liberal John Manley) 3 days before he left for Afghanistan. Look at the Liberal website - with Dion gloating about all of his conclusions on the mission before he went on his so-called "fact-finding mission". What a joke!
As far as I am concerned - what he did is totally insulting to our army and those fighting in afghanistan. Guergis is right - Dion should apologize and do so loudly.
As for Dion's safety... please... give me a break. If anyone actually took the time to look at the timelines of this story - Dion was on the ground for hours already before Guergis went public. Its hard to call Dion's safety into question when he was live on TV at Noon and wasn't on TV until that night... She did not go out and comment until Dion was already blasting his crap oipinions on TV live from Afghanistan. Perhaps Dion should spend some more time talking about invading pakistan... that will make him look less crazy then his stupid accusations against guergis.
Alan - January 21, 2008 8:23 am
What - you just spent last night trolling for places to be four days late with your comment?