My editorial of the day
IT CAN HAPPEN HERE
He's just come back from Afghanistan with Liberal leader Dion. Already the MOSSAD control in the Canadian press is having a real field day. Can West's Asper family tools have completely misquoted Stephane Dion (after putting his life in jeopardy by allowing Harper to comment on his location in Afghanistan). The Harper STRICTLY controls who in Canada goes in and out of Afghanistan. So that was niiiiiiiiiice letting the "cat out of the bag" and then bashing Mr. Dion through his spokesperson. Well, some of us are very pissed off.
Some of us have no wish to see The Harper Minority Report replaced with the Izzy and Iggy Show.
Obviously Mr. Asper does. and the CBC and the CTV cannot even agree as to the details of the Dion remarks.
No one, of course, listens to me; I just quote the international law that the Bushistas totally care to ignore
Since the 2001 Authorization for Military Force put out after the UN told the US Bush Adminstiration (can you say 2000 junta?) to cool their jets. I've put my cards on the table about what I think about ignoring international law and Canada being the handmaiden to the US Decider in Chief's war "racket." I think I hold the rather "Canadian view" that human rights matter.
The US is in a run up to starting another war; it’s worked for them in the past to stave off economic collapse. This is not a good plan for Canada, some rather desperate measures are called for that do not include use of military force in the Middle East.
This time - as opposed to 2001 - the damage is far, far greater with the enormous cost of Iraq and Afghanistan (and then of course there is the “small” matter of continuing to butress Israel and the resulting ME arms race) ..
The US “bookends” policy of support (Pakistan on one end, Israel on the other) and the Cheney intent to balkanize the ME has been ongoing for seven years to the point the entire world market structure in in TOTAL collapse. and I don’t mean just the financial institutions either.
It cannot be covered up for too much longer, as even the MSM is now acknowledging that economically it looks like only the very top bracket in the free market system are going to escape with the shirts on their backs. (The financial press is not looking for the root causes so much, but seeing the symptomology rather well).
“I believe the Liberals have to be very careful about seeking Ignatieff’s advice on international issues. He does have a great deal of knowledge and he can probably blow people away with that but on reading several of his writings it appears that his judgement is suspect.”
The above remark is highly correct - HIS judgment is suspect, very. I’ve watch him since he walked in and took a riding that Elmer Fudd could have won. The guy thinks in seconds (what’s good for HIM) and doesn’t think long term and I feel/think he is incapable of it. To put it bluntly, the guy’s GONE AMERICAN (and I should know). He’s just another guy who doesn’t disagree with the underlying premise (militarization and annexation of Canada for the US), only with the TACTICS.
This is EXTREMELY dangerous. The US has thrown every single adherance to Geneva and international law away, something to be debated for another day as the White House and Cheney's office continue their ever obnoxious and lethal misinterpretation of the US Supreme law of the land. Obvious symptoms: Jose Padillo, Omar Khadr. While the US Bush Adminstration is going to have its day some day at the ICC some day- an institution which I hope at least a few on this webblog take with utter seriousness and respect - there is no reason for Canada to get itself embroiled in further Bush international legal violations.
The US' KING George, representative in the kleig lights, Imperial President, and his primary adviser, Dirty Dick Cheney, are cherry picking intel info once again as they did before the war in Iraq; this time it’s with PAKISTAN (they’re still fighting about the Iran NIE) ..
CIA/intelligence are claiming they “know” who killed the Pakistani PM: They’re claiming AlQueda. Strange, this was before the review of evidence. We saw this with 9-11. Even today, the FBI said there is “no evidence” linking Osama bin Ladin to 9-11; yet, without reviewing anything, the CIA ‘knows’ something.
Last time the intelligence community said something, the President ignored them: He didn’t like the Iran NIE.
Hope he enjoys picking while he can. Convicted war criminals don’t get much of a choice on prison garb, cell size, visitor frequency nor which Canucks they can hang out with.
Ask our potential Prime Minister to contrast the difference of “assertions about AlQueda” in the Pakistani and 9-11 situations. Let him take a look. Don't rely on Iggy's assertions; he's been wrong on intel matters before.
To those of us in the know it doesn’t make sense, this quickly, to say anything was “certain”, but still 7 years later, still unclear about the facts behind the AUMF. Canada's reliance must be on international law and not on US intelligence sources nor those who would cherry pick them. It must not rely on Michael Ignatieff's misinterpretations.
Canada’s BEST line of defense - as I have said - is to stay on top of their NATO commitments, to go to the Security Council with a firm commitment to making the US PROVE themselves this time, and to stay within the confines of ICC guidelines themselves (which there is evidence they are NOT doing.)
As for Ignateiff - watch OUT!
Liberal leader Dion has a much higher probability of sorting out the truth as a NON American tool. Mr. Layton doesn't seem to have any good foreign policy advisers, but The Harper will neutralize him soon anyway.
see: http://welcome-to-pottersville.blogspot.com/2007/08/michael-ignatieff-ok-so-i-fucked-up.html
Here is my swicki on Pakistan intel
http://planetary-healing-swicki.eurekster.com/Pakistan+intelligence/
here is my swicki on Afghanistan Canada
http://planetary-healing-swicki.eurekster.com/Afghanistan+Canada/
I want to ensure that Ignatieff doesn’t pull the wool over the eyes of a single Canadian.
Some of us know what he is doing here in Canada.
I most sincerely hope that Mr. Dion can hold his party together. I, for one, have a very good idea of what is at stake.
This is a direct quote from his Montreal Gezette interview after the comments were made.“I was very, very surprised by the way it was reported,” Dion said. “I did not expect this interpretation.”
and this I saw this comment posted: How bad is it getting for Dion ?
Rumour has it that the next set of Conservatie tv ads will switch emphasis to ….
Jack Layton is NOT a leader
This is Dion's actual interview with Peter Mansbridge on Thursday:
From Thursday’s The National:
CBC’s Peter Mansbridge: I want to just remind viewers of your remarks, and I want to understand exactly what you meant by this. Perhaps something was lost in translation. I think it was originally in French, but the English translation has been: “If [Pakistani leaders] are incapable of doing it themselves, it is something that we could envision with NATO forces; how to help Pakistan help us bring peace to Afghanistan.” What are you saying here? Canadian troops, NATO forces should go into Afghanistan?
Liberal Leader Stephane Dion: Obviously not. It was diplomatic intervention with an effort that was to be more concerted between Canada and our NATO allies.
Mansbridge: But you know, I mean, with respect, we’ve been doing that for six years.
Dion: I don’t have the magic solution. I’m just telling you…
Mansbridge: No, but on the diplomatic front, we have actually done that. Canadian ministers have been to Pakistan, American ministers. Americans are pouring billions of dollars into Pakistan. General Hillier has been there.
Dion: We should never miss an opportunity to make this point. Diplomatic effort very actively in Pakistan, because it’s part of the problem. Part of what we are doing in the south of Afghanistan, in the province of Kandahar is nullified by the fact that the insurgents, they cross the border, they ignore the border. And when we provide security in an area, they may come back at any time from Pakistan.
Mansbridge: Everybody gets the problem, but what’s the solution? Because talk has not seemed to have worked.
Dion: Well, I have no other solution than to say that we need to be very assertive in our diplomatic effort and pressure on Pakistan.
Mansbridge: But like what? How are we assertive? What do we say? What are we going to do if they don’t do it? What does “being assertive” mean?
Dion: I have no solution, no magic solution to offer on that and nobody has. The only thing is if you compare Pakistan with Afghanistan, Pakistan has one of the most powerful armies in the world, the sixth or the seventh. They should be able to go in these areas and to do more. The Government of Afghanistan told us that very clearly. Their view is that the terrorist centres, training centres in Pakistan are known, we know where they are located it’s what they are saying and that it should not be impossible for the Government of Pakistan to do much more to help us.
Mansbridge: They have been saying that, though, for ages. I’m sure Hamid Karzai said to you what he said to others there. He said that to me in his office, that they know where Mullah Omar is. They know the house he is staying in. I mean, do you really believe that they know that? And if they did know that, that they couldn’t do something about it?
Dion: Well, I’m just saying that if, one thing, that there are easy solutions in Afghanistan, it’s not the case. And one of the difficulties that explains why the province of Kandahar is more dangerous than the others is this wide open border with Pakistan.
See also: http://www.espritdecorps.ca/Ontarget%20071229.htm
Here is the CBC's link to Canada in Afghanistan. Another 3500 troops stand at the ready to be deployed. No one's impeaching Bush or Cheney, the architects of a meltdown in international law.
You think it can't happen here, in Canada, watch THIS.
QuickTime movie at 4.7 mebibytes
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