If not you will find soldiers committing suicide or fragging their officers. It is now time for the Left to call for general resistance by our troops in their own self interest; that is to get out of Kandahar alive. Calling for troop resistance now will save lives in the future.
The reality is that the war in Afghanistan is not a humanitarian mission but a continuation of the American War on Drugs. Afghan drug policy costs Canadian lives: study
Canada's Afghanistan mission under fire
"The Canadian government is in denial over the true perception of its troop deployment to Afghanistan's troubled Kandahar province, says the head of a European drug policy think-tank.Emmanuel Reinert, executive director of the Brussels-based Senlis Council, said he was taken aback by the virulent reaction to the group's report, which said Canadian soldiers and Afghan civilians are paying with their lives because of failing U.S. policies that focus on eradication of the poppy crop"
Canada in Kandahar: No Peace to Keep - A Case Study of the Military Coalitions in Southern Afghanistan
New Field Report
June 2006
"Canadian troops and Afghan civilians are paying with their lives for Canada's adherence to the US government's failing military and counter-narcotics policies in Kandahar. The US-led counter-terrorist operations and militaristic poppy eradication strategies have triggered a new war with the Taliban and other insurgent groups, and are causing countless civilian deaths.
To a large extent, it can be said that Operation Enduring Freedom and the related militaristic counter-narcotics policies are significant contributors to the current state of war in Kandahar and the other southern provinces.
Canada and the international community continue to unquestioningly accept America's fundamentally flawed policy approach in southern Afghanistan, thereby jeopardising the success of military operations in the region and the stabilisation, reconstruction and development mission objectives."
Afghanistan & the Ghost of Kim
"The drug trade is indeed a problem, but in large part because of the war. The Taliban initially suppressed opium production, but war, coupled with a failure to adequately fund a program aimed at weaning farmers off poppy growing, means Afghanistan is now once again the world’s largest producer of opium.
Opium profits not only fuel the insurgency, they fill the coffers of the U.S.-supported warlords who are once again in power. It was the corruption and violence of the warlords that originally laid the ground for the Taliban takeover. The only thing keeping the warlords in power today is the U.S. and NATO armed forces."
Actually rather than Kim, the Harpocrites war efforts in Afghanistan reminds me of another of Rudyard Kiplings stories; The Man Who Would Be King.
http://plawiuk.blogspot.com/2006/07/war-resister-killed-in-afghanistan.html
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War Resister Killed In Afghanistan . . .
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That would be a neighbourly thing to do for a good neighbour, but not for one that steals half a billion softwood lumber dollars.
Even then, Canada's image as Peacekeepers is getting blown to smithereens. Please tell me if I am wrong with this.
Their gimmick is how to persuade the population that they're fighting for their interests, so they'll climb the scaling ladders, hoping for riches and everlasting life if they die.
In short: all wars and those who promote them are fraud.
Of course, now come the cookie cutter replies: Should we have allowed Hitler to conquer us etc. etc.
WW2 was started by the so called victorious powers in WW1 with the Versailles Treaty forced on the losers, creating artificial states and incredible poverty, even before the great depression, which only put the kindling under the piled up firewood. Hitler was only the catalist and the spark that ignited the flames.
All wars and all human activities are centered around some forms of resource control. Sort out the logical and rational distribution and there won't be any more wars.
Ed Deak.
In late 2003 , Canada ranked number 34 in terms of personnel contribution among UN peacekeeping nations, well behind Bangladesh, Zambia, Nigeria and Uruguay, and had a mere 206 Canadians are currently serving under the UN.
I suspect the numbers have dropped since then. I think I read that we now have something like under 100 Canadians serving under the UN.
Thank you for turning my disgust at the media's handling of Cpl Boneca's death into pure anger. Your post has to be the most uninformed piece of dribble I've ever read. Soldiers know exactly what they get themselves into. Cpl Boneca was an infantry soldier. Do you know what the role of the infantry is? "To close with and destroy the enemy" Not peacekeeping, not shoveling snow, not daisy picking.
Soldiers are not mislead about this. They are taught this from day one. Don't believe me? Go to the local recruiting centre and ask a few questions. In fact the infantry RIA has it printed in black and white. Not to mention that troops learn what their true role is from the get go. Not some idealistic myth that exists in this country.
How dare you use the death of a noble soldier to further your petty interests! You shame everything he stood for. How dare you call him a "War resister". Do not think that for one second this man was like you or any of your bunch.
You also call for dissent within the ranks. You have sorely misjudged your audience. Your words are tantamount to treason. If you think for one second that Canadian Forces personel would rise up to oppose the very country they are serving then you are more ignorant than I thought.
Now I doubt this post will stay up for very long nor do I care. Nor do I think that any of this will sink in. Stay in your bubble and sheltered lifestyle while others do the dirty work.
You have the right to your opinion. But don't use the misconstrued and misrepresented words of a dead man who did more for his country than you ever will.
Remius out.
THUNDER BAY, Ont. – Mr. Antonio Boneca, father of Corporal Anthony Boneca, who was killed
in battle on July 9, 2006, while serving in Afghanistan wishes to issue the following statement:
Our prid e was in our son before and after he became a professional soldier. He was a giving person.
He was a leader. He was the kind of person who was always joking and liked to make others around
him happy. Anthony was the first to volunteer in any situation.
My son volunteered to go to Afghanistan. Anthony knew what he was getting into. He loved being in
the Army and my wife, Shirley and I, supported our son whole-heartedly. In all my conversations with
my son, there was never any mention of him not being well enough or fit enough to carry out his military
duties.
Recent media reports state that my son may not have been prepared. His conversations with my family
and me indicated he was well aware of the dangers around him and was committed to the test he had
taken on. Anthony knew he was part of a group that stuck together to do what they were sent to do.
He said it was difficult to cope with the weather, the sand, and the situation the young children endured.
He was proud to make a difference in their lives and said he wished these children could live like we do
in Canada. Certainly, Anthony wanted to come home, but I ask what soldier wouldn’t in that situation?
There is no question about the extent of his military training. I know he was well prepared for what he
was sent to do.
Please respect my family’s request for privacy during our time of grief.
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"I think it's important to always carry enough technology to restart civilization, should it be necessary." Mark Tilden
All (sane) soldiers hate war, and all soldiers fight for one thing and one thing only - their buddies. War is insanity and hell, and every soldier who is in one has every right to object privately to family and friends, especially those involved in this latest Afghanistan debacle.
Grow up, soldier boy.
Personally, it's goulish and disgusting. He's lucky I was as polite as I was.
SOURSE ? <br />
and speaking, as you were, of lesseons to be learned---<a href="http://reactor-core.org/none-dare.html">http://reactor-core.org/none-dare.html</a><br />
I heartily suggest you visit the above site Bro, 'cause school's in!<p>---<br>The world is a dangerous place, not because of those who do evil, but because of those who look on and do nothing.... : Albert Einstein
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I suppose much like the soldier ant you will blindly obey <br />
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<a href="http://jibtrim.blogspot.com/2005/07/germany-soldiers-right-to-disobey.html">http://jibtrim.blogspot.com/2005/07/germany-soldiers-right-to-disobey.html</a><br />
Germany -- A Soldiers Right to Disobey <br />
This very illuminating topic came via The Week Magazine (news McNuggets on good paper).<br />
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Because of our country’s Nazi past, said Reinhard Müller in the Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung, German soldiers have long been given the right to refuse orders to do anything they consider “patently wrong,” such as killing a prisoner, or bombing a hospital.<br />
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I do believe the key word in that sentence was "consider."<br />
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A federal court has just expanded that right, ruling that a soldier can also refuse to do anything that might—even indirectly—further the cause of a war he does not believe in. Maj. Florian Pfaff, 48, a career army officer, was working on a software program to integrate the armed forces’ computer networks. After the Iraq war began in 2003, he refused to continue his work because his superiors could not guarantee that the program would not be used by U.S. forces stationed in Germany. A military court demoted Pfaff to captain for insubordination. But the higher civilian court has restored his rank, saying that he was exercising his constitutional right to freedom of conscience.<br />
<p>---<br>The world is a dangerous place, not because of those who do evil, but because of those who look on and do nothing.... : Albert Einstein
You just don't get it.
Hopefully the Afghani do, because this is about THEIR country. Not ours. The question remains; are Canadian solders dieing for Canada or for Afghanistan? If neither, then they are being sent over on false pretences. Then the honor of their death is only because they died BELIEVING they were there for a cause. Is the cause honorable? That's what's being questioned. A solder questioning the cause, don't make his death less honorable. Perhaps it makes it more so.
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Expect little from life and get more from it.
Remius on Tuesday, July 11 2006 @ 09:26 PM MDT<br />
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Well my little windup dolly, So It I who doesn’t get I in your ever so programmed opinion is it? <br />
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What I do get is you are a pawn in another mans game.<br />
Your opinion has been shaped from birth and like a good little automaton you freak at anything that attacks those instilled beliefs.<br />
Now there is a possibility that my assessment based on your offerings here are out of whack. I will give you the benefit of doubt that you may have an open mind after all and will know by your response to that which I now include.<br />
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<a href="http://www.lookingglassnews.org/viewvideo.php?vid=cen_of_self1">http://www.lookingglassnews.org/viewvideo.php?vid=cen_of_self1</a> <br />
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here is another. <br />
Take your time as I wouldn't want yoy to hurt yourself <br />
when the realisatin hits<br />
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<a href="http://reactor-core.org/none-dare.html">http://reactor-core.org/none-dare.html</a><br />
<p>---<br>The world is a dangerous place, not because of those who do evil, but because of those who look on and do nothing.... : Albert Einstein