[phobiaphobe]

4 Canadian soldiers were recently killed in Afghanistan... The evil Conservative government has decided that they will return to tradition, and not lower the flags to half-mast on parliament hill every time there is a war fatality. Traditionally, various military installations would lower their flags to honour the fallen soldiers, but the goverment would respectfully lower their flags only once a year on Remembrance Day. The previous Liberal government had taken to lowering the Parliament flags whenever they felt like it... the occasional fatality in Afghanistan, the submarine accident off the coast of the UK, whenever. Totally inconsistent.

Now that the insidious Harper government have put their foot down and decided to stick with tradition, the leftist media have dogpiled on them for "trying to conceal their war losses" and "dishonouring the soldiers" and whatever other accusations they can come up with.

To add to the frenzy, Harper recently banned the press from attending the "homecoming" of the remains of the 4 soldiers most recently killed; I consider this a great move, done in respect to the families. The lefty media OTOH have declared it another evil decision on Harper's part to push his evil secret agenda and hide information from the public.

This is the kind of **** I have to tolerate with between periods of the hockey game:

http://www.thestar.com/NASApp/cs/ContentServer?pagename=thestar/Layout/Article_Type1&c=Article&cid=1145829008874&call_pag eid=970599119419

Yes we want to pay respect to fallen soldiers, but during a war, should parliament lower the flags EVERY time a soldier is killed?

[sheepofblue]

My guess is the previous government that broke with tradition did not do so to honor the sacrifice made by the fallen rather to provide political capital

[phobiaphobe]

Originally Posted by sheepofblue

My guess is the previous government that broke with tradition did not do so to honor the sacrifice made by the fallen rather to provide political capital

Yes, and what a move. Anyone in the House of Commons that opposed lowering the flags would clearly be unpatriotic or cold and disrespectful. Sick indeed.