Federal
Election in Canada
Asoka
Weerasinghe
Kings Grove Crescent . Gloucester . Ontario . Canada
October 3, 2008
The Editor (Letters)
THE OTTAWA CITIZEN
Sir:
If there is one more reason why I will not vote for the Liberals is
Bob Rae.
This is a politician with a lousy record as the Premier of Ontario
and then goes back five years to dig up trash on the governing party,
and now makes a mischievous statement on the ‘situation in Sri
Lanka’ to garner the 100,000 Tamil-Canadian votes in the Greater
Toronto Area.
The Liberal twaddle of “We are Holier Than Thou” wagging
his finger at the Sri Lankan Government which is about to wipe out Tamil
Tiger terrorism that bled that little island nation for 25 years, just
doesn’t cut mustard.
It was intellectually fraudulent for Rae to say that “It (Sri
Lankan Government) has waged a virtual uninterrupted military campaign
against the LTTE (Tamil Tigers) since the early 1980s”. What Rae
failed to tell the Canadians was that it was the Tamil Tigers who came
violently strong as a conventional army trained by Indira Gandhi’s
India, with sophisticated weapons like, Kalashnikovs RPGs, machine guns
and land mines, against the government’s ceremonial army which
had no sophisticated weaponry in its armoury, in the early 80s.
And that the Government armed forces are doing what is expected of
them to do, to defend the territorial integrity of a sovereign nation
and reassure its citizens that they have a ‘right-to-life’
and will be protected from the marauding Tamil Tiger terrorists who
also happened to perfect the suicide body pack for suicide bombing which
is now used for copycat-suicide bombings around the world.
How low can Liberal politics get! Come now, Bob Rae, you certainly
haven’t impressed me as an honest politician, and nor are you going
to pull wool over my eyes.
Asoka Weerasinghe
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