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Title: Tale of Mulroney-Schreiber comes to inconclusive end
Category: Misc CDN
Posted By: Hyack
Date: 2010-05-30 22:38:23
Canadian

[GreenTiger]

That man has fallen quite a bit. In some ways he reminds me of Richard Nixon.

[Thanos]

No public money was involved and no open accusations of criminality were ever proven. All this was was a lynch mob based on the bogus statements of a professional con man who's now serving time in a German jail. If anyone looks like fools in all of this it's the NDP's and Liberals who wasted all this time and money with a pitifully disguised attempt at revenge against Mulroney for beating them so badly back in the 1980's. This whole silly episode will barely deserve the asterisk it'll be given in the offical Parliamentary history books.

[GreenTiger]

Thanos Thanos:

No public money was involved and no open accusations of criminality were ever proven. All this was was a lynch mob based on the bogus statements of a professional con man who's now serving time in a German jail. If anyone looks like fools in all of this it's the NDP's and Liberals who wasted all this time and money with a pitifully disguised attempt at revenge against Mulroney for beating them so badly back in the 1980's. This whole silly episode will barely deserve the asterisk it'll be given in the offical Parliamentary history books.

Hope you are right personally I like Brian Mulroney and I think he was a good PM and it was very nice that the Canadian PM and the US President got along as well as they did.

[kenmore]

When I see a pic of Mulroney, I am reminded of the famous Nixon quote " I am not a crook" ya right

[andyt]

No duh. When the inquiry was so severely limited in it's terms of reference that it couldn't look at where the other 20 million Schreiber distributed went, and they couldn't examine the 2 million Mulroney got from the govt after denying he even knew Schreiber, (later proven a lie) of course the inquiry is not going to produce a clear result. It didn't dover any new ground, just a whitewash by the Reformacons to keep all this out of the limelight.

[Lemmy]

Thanos Thanos:

No public money was involved and no open accusations of criminality were ever proven. All this was was a lynch mob based on the bogus statements of a professional con man who's now serving time in a German jail. If anyone looks like fools in all of this it's the NDP's and Liberals who wasted all this time and money with a pitifully disguised attempt at revenge against Mulroney for beating them so badly back in the 1980's. This whole silly episode will barely deserve the asterisk it'll be given in the offical Parliamentary history books.

Uhh, no. Mulroney received a $2.1M settlement from Canadian taxpayers after he swore, under oath, that he had not had a business relationship with Karlheinz Schreiber. He's since changed ADMITTED that was a lie. Whether Schreiber's a conman or not has no bearing on the lie (actually, that makes it even WORSE for Mulroney; "the company you keep", and all).

You're right, though, this is about revenge. It's not about revenge for 1980s elections, it's revenge for breach of public trust by the highest government official in the country. Mulroney's a douchebag, he owes Canadians $2.1M, plus interest and he's fully earned the label he'll wear as his legacy: a sleazy, lying crook.

[andyt]

GreenTiger GreenTiger:

That man has fallen quite a bit.

You're right. He's fallen and he can't get up.