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Debate this: GOP keeps us safe, by Peter Worthington Toronto Sun

Next Monday, the inaugural Munk Debate takes place at Toronto’s Royal Ontario Museum on the issue: “Be it resolved that the world is a safer place with a Republican in the White House.” ** What makes this significant is the quality of the four debaters — and prospects of the most unusual U.S. presidential election in the lives of most of us. ** In favour of the motion are Charles Krauthammer of the Washington Post who radiates common sense, knowledge and realism, and Niall Ferguson, a revisionist historian who supported the war in Iraq, opposed the 2004 re-election of George Bush. ** Opposing the resolution is former U.S. diplomat Richard Holbrooke who brokered the Dayton peace accords in Bosnia, and urged military action against Saddam Hussein “Not only because he possesses the potential for weapons of mass destruction, but because of the very nature of his regime . . . a clear and present danger at all times.” ** His debating partner is Samantha Power, Irish-born Pulitzer Prize winning journalist and foreign policy specialist who favours armed intervention to prevent genocide and humanitarian crises. She resigned as foreign policy adviser to Barrack Obama after calling Hillary Clinton a “monster.” If Obama becomes president, she is mentioned as cabinet material.

So, what do you think? Is the world safer with a republican in the White House?

“There are only two forces who have offered to die for you, Jesus Christ and the American military.

Posted by Tina

A few days ago we had an exchange on Post Scripts when Lisa posted comments against the war in Iraq. Lisa generously shared with us that her father had been killed in the Iraq war. She shared the bitterness she feels toward those who support the war and confessed she hoped she could learn to forgive them. When I saw the following story I thought about the brave men and women who risk their lives in military service to our country but I also thought about Lisa and about the millions of others who have sacrificed loved ones so that others might be freed from oppression, subjugation, torture and death. I hope Mr. Knudsen doesnt mind my editing of his beautiful storyand I hope it brings comfort to those who have sacrificed so much to know that we honor the memory of those who have fallen.

Please take the time to read the entire storyits about one mans journey to discover more about his real father, a soldier who gave his life at Normandy during WWII, after his 18th birthday when his mother revealed the truth about his birth:

Kirkland man’s journey to find father brings past to life, by Bill Knudsen

Your real dad’s name is Bill Cuthbert. You are named after him; he was killed in the Second World War. He was a navigator on a B-24 bomber and his plane was shot down over France on April 20, 1944, when you were just about 6 months old. He is buried in the American Cemetery in Normandy, France. Then your stepdad and I met in late 1945 and we were married in 1946. That is also the same year that he adopted you and we made a commitment to raise you as our son together.”
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