Harper Attacks Martin

Poor Steve. Things are not going his way in Afghanistan so he's decided to pull a page out of the Bushco playbook and blame it on this country's former leader, Paul Martin, just like Clinton is now being blamed for not getting Osama.

BUCHAREST, Romania - Paul Martin’s second-guessing on Afghanistan is a perfect example of why the ex-Liberal prime minister is no longer leading the country, Prime Minister Stephen Harper said today.

The problem with that attack is that it's false. But Steve must do the only thing he can because we all know that these conservative parties that hail personal responsibilty actually loathe practicing what they preach, so he continues:

Harper said it was Martin and his Liberals who committed Canadian troops to fighting Taliban insurgents in Afghanistan.

“When you make those kinds of decisions as a prime minister, you have to be able to take responsibility for them and stick with them,” Harper said in Bucharest, where he is attending a meeting of francophone countries.

“The fact that Mr. Martin is unable to do that, in this and so many other cases, illustrates why he is no longer prime minister of our country.”

Martin told the Toronto Star in an interview this week that he doesn’t like the way the mission in Afghanistan is unfolding, saying the original aim of rebuilding the country has been obscured by increasingly intense fighting.
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“I’m the person who sent them there and I don’t back away from that one iota,” the former prime minister said.

But he said the coalition must win the hearts and minds of Afghans.

Perhaps Steve would like to explain to Canadians how what Martin said isn't true or resembles anything like waffling.