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Monday
January 21, 2008
Saying I told you so
... about the Manley report and the fake Al Qaeda
fishing
expeditions. Plus the skinny on what was really in that ministry
building Israel killed a lot of civilians to demolish, and a message
from Fidel Castro on the price of everything including Bush's Epiphany
Gift.
(1) Oh, wow, the
Manley report is about to be unleashed. And what a surprise -
it's going to recommend staying in Afghanistan. And we paid for that.
Here's what I said in October about the panel compiling this report:
CBC:
PM names Manley to head review of Afghan mission
YYC:
The joke is that he calls this panel "non-partisan" and
"independent". Jake Epp
is Allcon clear through, and has an interest in pipelines. Wallin
sits
on transnational corporate boards, is behind the SPP(NAU) 100%, and
advises the Council of
the Americas. Burney and Tellier's credentials as CEOs and
Mulroneyites speak for themselves.
John
Manley was a Libcon who just too weird to get re-elected and has
always fully believed in all of the myths about Al Qaeda, the "war
on terror" and the need for Canadians to fight "terrorists" in
Afghanistan.
(2) Remember the
so-called Al Qaeda website where Al Zawahiri hisself was going to
answer questions? Well, so far he ain't talking. In December (Zap! Did they getcha?)
I suggested that it was just another fake Al Qaeda site where
questioners may actually provide more information than they receive. If
so, the 900 or so folks who bit are being traced through their ISPs.
An avid pro-war website called Strategy
Page
agrees, under the dubious heading "intelligence", that information
about posters is being gleaned at the "Al Qaeda" site. It's
unfortunate for their credibility that they truly believe the site is
genuine and are actually gleefully calling it a "Christmas gift from Al
Qaeda".
Hard to know why the fans of war are so afeared of the big Q when on
the other hand they want to believe it's dumber than joe's dog.
They make it even more difficult to believe the rest of the shills,
like this
guy named Hamid, a male version of Irshad Manji,
who slavishly reinforces Israel's mythical image as a tiny (therefore
helpless) country against big enemies on all sides, and has dabbled in
the Quran and the Old Testament enough to know that Zionism is a good
thing.
"Al-Zawahiri wants to subjugate the whole world to Islamic law," Hamid
says. As if Christianity isn't trying to do something similar,
and
convert the Jews too! Give us a break!
(3) An insightful blogger has
picked up on some serious irregularities
in news reports about Israel's bombing of what it called a Hamas-run
ministry building, slaughtering a couple dozen Palestinian civilians in
the process.
Thanks to John of Manitoba for sending me the link.
The author rightly suggests that Israel is using the pretext of going
after Hamas just to smash stuff up and kill people. It certainly
does
appear that Israel is working on a "peace" deadline trying to get as
many Palestinians as possible to leave the region or leave the earth,
whichever comes first.
(4) Speaking of "Christmas Gifts from Al Qaeda", Fidel
Castro writes about an "Epiphany Gift" from Bush.
Thanks to Ana
for the link.
Here's a short excerpt:
"Being
prepared for the worst is the only way to be prepared for the
best. It
seems unreal to see Bush, the conqueror of other peoples' raw materials
and energy resources, setting out guidelines for the world careless
about how many hundreds of thousands or millions of people die or how
many clandestine prisons and torture centers must be created to attain
his objectives. "Sixty or more corners of the world" must expect
pre-emptive attacks. Let us not shut our eyes; Cuba is one of those
dark corners."
Castro nicely
drops Bush into the same category as the ancient and completely insane medieval
Crusaders. He also makes a hard point to fathom for people brainwashed
into thinking that capitalism is the best system in the world. It
isn't when it morphs into fascism.
yayacanada
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