Canadian Politicians Making Everyone Else Seem Sane

[DRSmith]

Jewish community leaders are praising Liberal Leader Stéphane Dion's decision to dump a candidate who wrote about allegations that Israeli businesses had advance knowledge of the 9/11 attacks.

Dion yesterday asked that Lesley Hughes, the party's flag-bearer in Kildonan-St. Paul, step aside because of views expressed in 2003.

"The leader had to step in. He did the right thing," said Bernie Farber, chief executive officer of the Canadian Jewish Congress.

Farber said it was "obscene" that any politician would suggest the Jewish community knew of the pending attacks and did nothing to warn authorities. "There is nothing more hurtful," he said in an interview yesterday.

Hughes wrote in a March 2003 edition of a newsletter published by a committee of the Winnipeg Presbytery of the United Church of Canada that U.S., German, Russian and Israeli intelligence officials knew about the attacks in advance.

He said a statement issued by Hughes' on Thursday was itself "inappropriate and nonsensical."

[DRSmith]

The sad thing is she is like the second person I have heard of this week who has said either the Jews knew and helped their own or who has said it was an inside job.

The other person was from the marijuana party or what was formly known as the marijuana party

That is right we had a party who sole desire was to get marijuana legalized, third party heck we have 5th and 6th party candidates up here