One Canadian's "Apology"

And, I note, posted by a moderator, who should be unbiased, yet you posted most of the letter, instead of just posting a title, first paragraph, and a link to follow, should somebody else actually want to read any more of this racist right-wing mouth-piece's drivel.

Real sorry I share the country with this nut.

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“The war is not meant to be won, it is meant to be continuous, the essential act of warfare is the destruction of the produce of human labour”

And I am "sorry" that the person who wrote the above "apology" is someone who seems to totally buy into the entire 911 scam, a scam that was engineered not by terrorists wearing turbans, but by terrorists wearing suits and whose base of operations is the White House.

911 was an inside job, and your misguided apology will not change that fact.

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"and the knowledge they fear is a weapon to be used against them"

"The Weapon" - Rush

And obviously I was NOT speaking of ShockNAwe when I wrote it.

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"and the knowledge they fear is a weapon to be used against them"

"The Weapon" - Rush

I'm SORRY for anyone who wasted their valuable time reading this load of garbage.

I understood who you were talking about Deacon.

Thanks for the link though, Dr C. That is by far the most biased, right-wing nonsense web-rag paper I have ever seen from Canada. Canadian 'Free' Press! What a joke! Wish I could laugh more, but this country is full of racist right-wing nuts who will support and eat this stuff up for breakfast.

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“The war is not meant to be won, it is meant to be continuous, the essential act of warfare is the destruction of the produce of human labour”

I am unbiased when I moderate. But, no one as yet has outlawed my having and expressing and an opinion. But, I'm sure you'll try. I guess that statement counts as 'attack the messenger'. Funny, I don't seem to do the same when you contribute (and I edit and post) an article I don't agree with.

I do express an opinion so rarely, yet y'all seem to have such a big problem when I do express anything that appears to be something that you disagree with. Like I'm supposed to give up my free will and become yet another drone.

If you don't like the article, fine. Refund department is just off the main lobby of our corporate HQ. But, I didn't write it.


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"I think it's important to always carry enough technology to restart civilization, should it be necessary." Mark Tilden

Happy to show what the other side is flogging, Sarge.

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"I think it's important to always carry enough technology to restart civilization, should it be necessary." Mark Tilden

>>I am sorry that their governments breed hate for the west in their religious schools, mosques, and government-controlled media and that Canada, until recently, sent foreign aid to the Palestinian authority that allowed it to produce textbooks propagating hate against Israel and the west.<<<br />
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Would these be like the jihad teaching school textbooks the USA provided gratis to the Taliban which were used to indoctrinate young Afhghanis in the principles of jihad and hatred of foreigners and the West. Apparently at one time the US thought it was a good thing to encourage and to stir up radical Muslim fundamentalism. <br />
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The Jihad Schoolbook Scandal<br />
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SNIP<br />
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Washington Post investigators report that, during the past twenty years, the US has spent millions of dollars producing fanatical schoolbooks, which were then distributed in Afghanistan.<br />
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"The primers, which were filled with talk of jihad and featured drawings of guns, bullets, soldiers and mines, have served since then [i.e., since the violent destruction of the Afghan secular government in the early 1990s] as the Afghan school system's core curriculum. Even the Taliban used the American-produced books..." -- Washington Post, 23 March 2002 (1)<br />
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According to the Post, the U.S. is now "...wrestling with the unintended consequences of its successful strategy of stirring Islamic fervor to fight communism."<br />
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So the books made up the core curriculum in Afghan schools. And what were the unintended consequences? The Post reports that, according to unnamed officials, the schoolbooks "steeped a generation in violence."<br />
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How could this result have been unintended? Did they expect that having fundamentalist schoolbooks in the core curriculum would produce moderate Muslims?<br />
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Let's be reasonable<br />
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Nobody with normal intelligence could expect to distribute millions of violent Islamist schoolbooks without influencing school children towards violent Islamism. Therefore one would assume that the unnamed US officials who, we are told, are distressed at these "unintended consequences" must previously have been unaware of the Islamist content of the schoolbooks.<br />
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But surely someone was aware. The US government can't write, edit, print and ship millions of violent, Muslim fundamentalist primers into Afghanistan without somebody in high places (in the US government) approving those primers.<br />
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So if the books weren't supposed to be Islamist, that is, if their fanatical content contradicted US policy in Afghanistan, shouldn't the mass media and top politicians, such as President George Bush, now be calling for an investigation? Shouldn't they be demanding to know the identity of the official or officials who subverted the *intended* US policy by flooding Afghanistan with jihad primers?<br />
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Indeed, considering the disastrous consequences, shouldn't US officials and the media be questioning the very practice of violating the sovereignty of other countries by distributing millions of Islamic fundamentalist schoolbooks?<br />
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Continued at:<br />
<a href="http://www.globalissues.org/Geopolitics/WarOnTerror/JihadBooks.asp">http://www.globalissues.org/Geopolitics/WarOnTerror/JihadBooks.asp</a>

It's interesting how the Canadian left adjusted its rhetoric with regard to 9/11.

The initial reactions on the part of Canadian leftists were ones of "chickens coming home to roost" and "they had it coming" with regard to Americans having been attacked in such a dramatic and devastating manner.

Ordinary Canadians were horrified at such displays of left-wing schadenfreude, and so another tactic was needed. Fortunately for Canadian (and American) leftists, a theory came along that they could easily embrace without seeming callous to the victims of the WTC attack. 9/11 became an "inside job".

Give the devil his due - the concept was pure genius. Cast the US government and elites as the villain, but also paint the general US populace as clueless dupes, perfectly in keeping with the American-as-idiot mythology popularized on the people's network by that leftoid weasel Rick Mercer.

Of course, I don't know with absolute certainty who perpetrated 9/11. I find it surprising that you seem so convinced it was an inside job. I guess in the absence of clear facts, we tend to gravitate towards theories that confirm our worldviews.

Viva Che, Viva Chavez, Viva Hizbullah!

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Michael

<blockquote>American-as-idiot mythology </blockquote> A mythology cannot be backed up with facts. When examples can be shown, it is no longer myth.

"Leftoid weasel"? Only the humourless would think that.......But then the rightistas have no sense of humour, come to think of it (unless its of the scatological variety).

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"We can have a democracy or we can have great wealth concentrated in the hands of the few. We cannot have both."
- Justice Louis Brandeis

I am sorry that The British gave Palestine to the Zionists
I am sorry that is Israel stole the Palestinian land
I am sorry that the US gives Israel a carte blanche and pays billions of dollars to support it.
I am sorry that Israel built settlements in the West Bank, Gaza and Jerusalem
I am sorry that Israel ignores countless UN resolutions
I am sorry that Israel kills women and children with its bombs
I am sorry that Israel built its apartheid wall.
I am sorry that criticism of Israel is considered anti-semitism
I am sorry that Canada does panders to Israel
I am sorry that our newspapers publish such right-wing filth as "One Canadian's "apology"

Individualist, when you posted "a theory came along that they could easily embrace without seeming callous to the victims of the WTC attack. 9/11 became an "inside job"" you crossed the line from merely being gullible into the realm of brazen stupidity.

You've just boarded the bus to Looneyville, hope you enjoy the ride.

Clearly your ideology has dimmed whatever intelligence was granted you to the point where you'll believe anything in order to preserve your faith in the so called political "Right".

I am a political Centerist who distrusts anyone too far into either the realm of the Left or the Right.

Enjoy your fantasy while you can.



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"and the knowledge they fear is a weapon to be used against them"

"The Weapon" - Rush

"The initial reactions on the part of Canadian leftists were ones of "chickens coming home to roost" and "they had it coming" with regard to Americans having been attacked in such a dramatic and devastating manner."

This was not the general reaction of most leftists, not in the least. Yes, a couple of people on thev left did make such comments, but the vast majority of us sympathized with the victims. Once more, you are going to any length to find a stick with which to beat the left.

As for the myth of Americans as idiots, well, of course it is overstated, the sort of exaggeration that is used in humour. But like many myths or exaggerations it has a large grain of truth. Americans are generally the least knowlegeable and the most likely of all developed world peoples to believe in superstitious claptrap. Survey after survey shows this, and as such, they do look a bit like idiots to the rest of the world. Just recently, it was shown that on a list of developed countries, the US stood at the very bottom in terms of support for evolution. About 40% of the US population still belive that Saddam had something to do with 911. Can we be blamed for thinking they lack some brain cells?