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Sunday February 3, 2008
The Jokers are wild
And the joke's on us if we follow into the vat of
acid
"The Joker
first
encountered Batman during a botched robbery at the Ace Chemical
Factory. He escaped by leaping into a drainage vat of chemical waste,
but later discovered the toxins bleached his skin chalk white, dyed his
hair fluorescent green, and stretched his lips into a hideous,
permanent red grin." Batmantis.com
Similar grins
will be
pasted onto the faces of all those running for office in 2008.
Can any
among them be counted on to play Batman, or will we all be dragged into
the muck with them?
There are jokers in the House, and jokers hired by the House as
straightmen for their punch lines. There's nobody with a
straighter
face than John Manley, yet
he authors black comedy:
The
Harper government has said Canadians will continue in a combat role
beyond their scheduled pullout next February if other NATO countries
provide up to 1,000 reinforcements and the military can acquire combat
helicopters and unmanned surveillance aircraft — conditions recently
recommended by the panel headed by former Liberal cabinet minister John
Manley. (CBC)
Manley
and his empty-headed
panel, who have no experience whatsoever with war (check
their credentials)
but plenty with corporate greed, actually think that 1000 more troops
and
shovelling more tax dollars down the gaping maws of the "defence"
industries will make everything hunky dory for Canada in Afghanistan.
What's even sillier is that Harper is acting as if this makes
sense. If you haven't visited my Afghanistan page,
please at least have a look at the stats under the heading: "The
Futility"
Then we have Hillier involving himself in Harper's election campaign,
or maybe rehearsing for his own future run for office (coup?):
Hillier
said the military has
looked at all options and determined that the Liberal position is not
"logical," in part because it would squander both the military and
civilian efforts that have been made since Canada moved to southern
Afghanistan in 2005. (TorStar)
In the same
article, Bob Rae gives it all away about the Liberals:
"We're
committed to continuing to
play a role in Afghanistan until 2011, but there has to be an
understanding on the part of the UN and NATO of how these burdens are
to be shared," said Rae.
He's asking
for the same thing as Harper and Manley! They can hint all they
like, for purposes of election, at getting out of the
combat role, but what they
actually do will tend to support the continuance of combat against
Afghans who just want us out of their country.
And remember, Rae comes out of the NDP, so how far removed from
rationalizing about war are the rest of them should they ever
miraculously find themselves in a decision making position?
What is
going on is basically war for the sake of war.
The Federation of American Scientists lays out clearly who
runs the US government and who dominates the arms market that
exacerbates conflict all over the world.
Canada has been doing similar dirty dealing worldwide by taking
advantage of a loophole that says it's okay if you just sell
components, not whole weapons.
Not to mention that the west supports the sham
democracies that
buy, re-sell and use western weaponry to oppress their own people.
Blaming
Iran, as
Shin Bet's current rabble rouser just did, is only a convenience
that will eventually provide a pretext. Whatever Iran may be
doing is a drop in the overall bucket.
Not incidentally, there's a CBC
article about the two female "suicide" bombers in Iraq having Down
syndrome and their explosives having been detonated by remote
control. This confirms my suspicion that Islam does not have as
many people willing to off themselves for Allah as the US wants the
world to believe. Especially all those car bombings - they could
easily stuff dead people (there are a lot of those in Iraq) into those
cars and detonate them from a distance.
There's no
doubt the plan is to completely destroy the Middle East and break it
up into powerless little pieces, and Canada is expected to follow
blindly into that vat of acid.
If one
listens carefully, over the cacophany of horror and anguish, can a
maniacal cackle be heard?
Surely by now we ought to be able to see what a cruel joke the talk of
"spreading democracy" really is. How can we imagine anything
different of the many other conflicts in which the US and Britain have
been
overtly or covertly involved?
yayacanada
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