as long as it isn't his blood

commitment is the blood alright; ... and how many sons or daughters or spouses of politicians in canada and the u.s. are serving in active duty with the military?

Ex-U.S. president Clinton thanks Canada for Afghanistan military commitment

EDMONTON (CP) - Former U.S. president Bill Clinton thanked Canadians for staying the course in Afghanistan, knowing the price of that commitment is the blood of its soldiers. ...

Prime Minister Stephen Harper said last week that Canada will continue its support for the military mission in Afghanistan. He made the declaration as a public opinion poll suggested more than 60 per cent of Canadians questioned the country's role there. ...
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from the same article as noted above:

Clinton criticized religious extremism and the terror that it can spawn.

"If you think you can kill somebody else in the name of God it must mean that you believe you have absolute possession of God's truth and that you have turned it into a political program, which is absolutely true.

"And therefore (if) someone rejects the absolute truth, well, they're less than human anyway and who cares if they die and their kids die with them."

and knowing that i'm taking these quotes out of context,

but ...

just how many times do we hear bush reflecting on god?

how many times, when polls are down for bush and mysteriously coincides with the surfacing of 'bin laden' tapes? does that not spawn some terror?

and truth ... ; do we talk about wmd in iraq?

how many innocent iraq civilians are killed in the process?

or abuse cases in these prisons in iraq and elsewhere? .....