Michael Moore Hijacks the Oscars

Michael Moore got a mixed reaction from the audience at the Oscars last night. There is a really interesting press release interview (click on DOCUMENTARY FEATURE 100k or 300k) of Michael Moore on the Official Oscar site. While I think Moore can be a little arrogant at times, I have to admit the things he says are very compelling. He is right that Bush did not get the majority of the votes and he is also right that the reason for the war is the US wanting Iraqi oil.

Medicine Hat Trip

Because our Calgary trip has been cancelled, Anna-Maria and I took a trip into Medicine Hat instead. We will be heading home to Lethbridge later today. I had the chance to talk to Dad about some current events and I can't believe his take on "the events of" the last few weeks. (If you don't like it get a new blog!). He feels that Canada has "gone to far" by not sending Iraqi diplomats home when the United States has put out a press release asking other countries to do so. For what good reason should Canada send them home? There is no reason. The US has no right to ask the world to send them home. Here are some excepts from a related article:

The spokesman displayed little sympathy for the Iraqi diplomats who might be expelled, saying he did not know where they should go but it was possible to return to Iraq by land. “We just think they need to be kicked out of the countries that they're in,” Boucher said. Asked where they should go, he replied: “I guess, to put it bluntly, that's their problem.”

The article also stated that Canada hasn't been specifically asked:

A spokesman for Canadian Prime Minister Jean Chretien told Reuters in Ottawa: “They (the Americans) have not asked us and we see no reason to change Iraq's diplomatic status in Canada.” Iraq's embassy in Ottawa has one Iraqi diplomat. Russia also refused the US request to expel Iraqi diplomats from Moscow, dismissing it as “unacceptable”.

In a war that seems more and more like it's being run by an ambitious dictator, I can only hope it is over soon.