Layton Doesn't Get It; Close Call for Hillier

It appears that Jack Layton and the NDP just don't get it. Until the Taliban and the Drug Gangs are defeated Afghanistan well remain unstable. To defeat them means going into combat.

OTTAWA (CP) - NDP Leader Jack Layton says he still hopes the House of Commons will have a chance to debate Canada's role in Afghanistan once it resumes next month.

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Sad Layton and the NDP can't see the need to stay the course in Afghanistan but Clinton can.

EDMONTON -- 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.

"It's painful that you're losing people there and I'm sorry," Clinton said Thursday in a speech to 7,000 people at Rexall Place.

"But you've done a good thing for the cause of freedom and the stability of Canada.

"And as a citizen I am profoundly grateful that you've stayed the course and I appreciate it," he said to applause.

The 59-year-old Clinton said in an increasingly interdependent world, keeping order in Afghanistan reaches beyond its borders.

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Meanwhile Canada's top soldier Gen. Hillier has found out just how dangerous Afghanistan can be, when a bomb exploded near his convoy. Fortunatly no one was hurt.

PADA, Afghanistan (CP) - Canada's top soldier had just finished an amiable chat with an Afghan village elder on Friday when a roadside bomb blasted a dark plume into the sky about 800 metres away, damaging a Canadian Bison armoured vehicle.

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