The Harperinator strikes

Our whiz bang PM, Steve Harper, pronounces the Israeli's are off the hook again after killing another Canadian.

In responding to the head of the UN's statement that the Israeli defined accident looked deliberate Great Leader said:

“I certainly doubt that to be the case given that the government of Israel has been co-operating with us in our evacuation efforts and our attempts to move Canadian citizens out of Lebanon and also trying to keep our own troops that are on the ground involved in the evacuation out of harm's way."

G&M
July 26, 2006

Now I thought Steve had gone to school, maybe even university, eh.

Isn't his statement a simple logic error:

1. The Israeli's are co-operating with us to remove our citizens.

2. Therefore they would not deliberately kill UN observers. One of whom just happens to be a Canadian.

I think this is a good example of the logical fallacy know as Post Hoc. Or in other words: Confusing Coincidental Relationships With Causes.

Thanks Steve, but I think you need to start looking at some of those characters hiding in Prime Minister's Office who are writing you these really dumb dumb lines.

Myself, after 21 attempts at trying to hit the bunker, it sounds at little deliberate to me. Wonder why the stellar MSM (main stream media) didn't ask the "Calgary boy wonder" to explain a little more, eh.

I guess they might have just been happy to get the PM to speak to them.

I suspect it is a little closer to what Patrick Lang said on his site early this morning:

"Why would the IDF attack a UN observer post? Who, in their right mind would think such a thing," says Gellerman, Israel's UN ambassador." An Irish Army captain assigned to UNDOF or UNIFIL answered the question succinctly in a television interview this morning. "We are the Secretary General's eyes and ears," he said.

I'm not holding my breath for the outcome of any investigation and I really do wonder sometimes how stupid politicians think we actually are.

Ya the Israeli's are in the middle of a small war which they look to be losing on some grounds and they are really going to spend any time on an investigation of the killing of peace-keepers.

And if, oh my god, an investigation found that the UN was deliberately targeted by them. What would happen, eh?

Some poor bloody bombardier would be hung out.

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