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Tuesday
January 22, 2008
Hush, little baby, don't say a word
Canada doesn't dare sass the US or Israel
The great Manley panel on Canada's role in Afghanistan took their cue
from the US and blamed
the sorry state of affairs on NATO, present company excepted of
course. Can the reluctant countries expect the nudge of a terror event
or two on their home soil?
As usual,
nobody in our
government wants to say a bad word about the US. Canada doesn't mind
NATO being badmouthed at all, as long as we are not included in the
slam - which we were of course until dutiful nephew of Uncle Sam,
little Petie MacKay, hastened to demur that Gates meant to say present
company excepted. Then he was contradicted by Robert Gates who said he
did mean to include present company but he doesn't now.
The Nova Scotian Chronical Herald has an article
that reads well between the lines of Gates's comments about NATO and
our own government's reluctance to offend the US. It makes
abundantly
clear what an impossible mess the US (our good friends and allies)
dumped onto NATO, present company definitely not excepted, and if the
Manley commission knows anything at all, it knows full well that the
gradual transition away from direct combat is a pipe dream.
And then there's Maxime Bernier
falling all over himself
to say that Canada's manual on what constitutes torture and who uses it
must be horribly wrong since it includes the US and Israel. Real News
has a short video
on that issue.
Little known (and thanks to Ron for unearthing this) is
that Canada
developed the sensory deprivation torture techniques being used.
We shouldn't expect the Libcons to show a better face on this. Nice guy
Michael Ignatieff, for instance, doesn't
really see sensory deprivation as torture.
The fact that it drives POWs out of their minds and makes them confess
to things that never happened doesn't phase this paragon of studied
civility.
Reader Brian H. has sent a link to the CBC's
January 21 edition of The Current. (Audio - requires Real Player)
It's a book review but it's also flagrant fear propaganda, as you will
see towards the end. Missing from the list of countries to be feared as
nuclear threats are - you guessed it - the US and Israel.
See who's
got 'em.
yayacanada
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