as usual rhetoric,"We believe Iran constitutes the greatest threat to peace and security in the world." Isn't that what you said about Al-Qaeda. No matter, anything to keep the militarization of Canada chugging along. It is obvious that the Harpies are moving Canada away from being a secular nation. I mean really, who would take an orthodox anything on a diplomatic mission to the middle east or anywhere for that matter. These religious nuts will be the end of us and as they pray and can't make it happen so they will do their best to find what ever means available to keep chaos alive. Well, that's kind of hard Yes, Baird's an embarrassment. But he wouldn't be that way if he didn't have a vocal 10% of the population behind him. That's why it's long past time to remove the tax-deductible status of churches, particularly to address the evangelical churches who play politics with God and give Baird reasons to do the idiotic things he does. There's lots of good that some churches do. But for the most part, they're simply exclusive country clubs, some of which have reprehensible rules for their membership, and there's absolutely no need to subsidize them with tax dollars. Marurity? Bob Watts Why do we get involved??? Pre WWII that country was called Palestine, with our blessing we rounded up the Muslims and put them in camps and moved in Jews from all over the world. Being Jewish I've never supported this. We learned