Back to Stephen Harper

Again you have pissed me off. Your arrogance is stunning. Your decision to not lower the flag to half mast on the Peace Tower when a soldier dies is dispicable. Your presumption that Canadians are unable to recognize that November 11 is to remember those that have fallen in the past, and that when the flag is lowered any other time, is to honor the families of those that lost someone in todays conflicts is astonishing. You have just diminished the lives of all who die for our country. If you only could at least have some balls, and admit that the reason you are not going to be lowering flags is because you are going to extend our millitary to more "American" duties, and the losses are about to climb dramatically. Please explain to the families of those that die defending countries that do not want us there that their lives are meaningless. That we are not going to recognize their valiant effort. I disagree with our soldiers being there. I disagree with being the worlds cleaning crew for out of control masses. You leave us in Haiti, Afghanistan, Somalia, and others and you are now going to tell us that those deaths do not equal the deaths of someone who died in WWI or WWII? The death of any soldier in any conflict or operation, be it Iraq patrols, or sandbagging a flooding river should be shown the same respect. We pay our soldiers a meager salary, and we expect them to defend us. We owe it to them to respect them, to show them dignity in their deaths, to be humbled by their efforts. We owe them that little.