Chicken hawk too chicken to go to Canada:
TORONTO — Former U.S. vice-president Dick Cheney has cancelled an April appearance in Toronto citing concerns Canada is too dangerous.
“He felt that in Canada the risk of violent protest was simply too high,” said Ryan Ruppert, president of promotions company Spectre Live Corp., which had booked Mr. Cheney for an April 24 appearance at the Metro Toronto Convention Centre.
Apparently, Cheney was worried about a protest similar to
the ones that greeted him in Vancouver, B.C. last September. Given his history of heart problems, he didn't want to risk the possibility of being trapped inside a building with no access to a hospital.
Whether or not he's being a paranoid chicken shit, one thing is for damn sure: We'd all be better off if Cheney had shown as much concern for the lives of the troops he sent to Iraq and Afghanistan—not to mention the civilians in those countries—as he does now for his own personal safety.
Ironically, if it weren't for the five separate draft deferments that enabled Cheney to dodge service in the Vietnam War, there's a pretty good chance he'd be a Canadian citizen right now. Given that he's too scared to give a speech in Canada, I think we can all agree that if he'd been drafted, there's no chance he'd have been willing to actually serve in the military ... which means he'd probably have become an expatriate. To Canada.