To be fair to Stephen Harper, the process was started by Paul Martin, who tweaked the Canadian military role in Afghanistan and reversed the Canadian voting pattern at the U.N., as if to make up for all his anti-U.S. rhetoric. The difference with Harper may be that he actually believes in this policy and has the backbone to back it.
Canada has been dragged a long way away from Jean Chrétien's stand against the Iraq war.
Politics, fluctuating between principle and pragmatism, can be full of absurdities. But the American, and now Canadian, stance on Hamas seems particularly divorced from reality.
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Lets support the IRA, and the KLA, and etc.
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27 in the military, 9 tours.
Operation Ajax in the 50's?
South/Central America Contras?
Operation Gladio?
Its total hipocracy.
Doing business with China, a country that sells organs of executed Political Dissidents, and tortures and oppresses religious groups that are not apporved by the state.
Uzbekistan is our "ally", but we don't support Terror.
Get your head out of your ass.
Were you directing that comment at anyone or anything in particular? This is from the article:
"To be fair to Stephen Harper, the process was started by Paul Martin, who tweaked the Canadian military role in Afghanistan and reversed the Canadian voting pattern at the U.N., as if to make up for all his anti-U.S. rhetoric. The difference with Harper may be that he actually believes in this policy and has the backbone to back it."
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"And those who were seen dancing were thought to be insane by those who could not hear the music." Friedrich Nietzsche
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will you protect Iraqis against this too?<br />
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<a href="http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/americas/4859948.stm">http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/americas/4859948.stm</a><p>---<br>Real education must ultimately be limited to men who insist on knowing, the rest is mere sheep-herding. <br />
Ezra Pound
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AP Erases Video of Israeli<br />
Soldier Shooting Palestinian Boy<br />
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On Oct. 17, 2004 Israeli military forces invaded Balata, a dense, poverty-stricken community deep in Palestine’s West Bank (Israel frequently invades this area and others). According to witnesses, the vehicles stayed for about twenty minutes, the military asserting its power over the Palestinian population. The witnesses state that there was no Palestinian resistance – no “clash,” no “crossfire.” At one point, after most of the vehicles had finally driven away, an Israeli soldier stuck his gun out of his armored vehicle, aimed at a pre-pubescent boy nearby, and pulled the trigger.<br />
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We went to the hospital and interviewed the boy, Ahmad, his doctors, family, and others. Ahmad had bandages around his lower abdomen, where surgeons had operated on his bladder. He said he was afraid of Israeli soldiers, and pulled up his pants leg to show where he had been shot previously.<br />
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In the hospital there was a second boy, this one with a shattered femur; and a third boy, this one in critical condition with a bullet hole in his lung. A fourth boy, not a patient, was visiting a friend. He showed us a scarred lip and missing teeth from when Israeli soldiers had shot him in the mouth.<br />
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This was not an unusual situation. When I had visited Palestinian hospitals on a previous trip, I had seen many such victims; some with worse injuries. Yet, very few Americans know this is going on. AP’s actions in regard to Ahmad’s shooting may explain why.<br />
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We discovered that an AP cameraman had filmed the entire incident. This cameraman had then followed what apparently is the usual routine. He sent his video – an extremely valuable commodity, since it contained documentary evidence of a war crime – to the AP control bureau for the region. This bureau is in Israel.<br />
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What happened next is unfathomable. Did AP broadcast it? No. Did AP place the video in safe-keeping, available for an investigation of this crime? No.<br />
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According to its cameraman, AP erased it.<br />
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We were astounded. We traveled to AP’s control bureau in Israel. With our own video camera out and running, we asked bureau chief Steve Gutkin about this incident. Was the information we had been told correct, or did he have a different version? Did the bureau have the video, or had they indeed erased it. If so, why?<br />
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Gutkin, repeatedly looking at the camera and visibly flustered, told us that AP did not allow its journalists to give interviews. He told us that all questions must go to Corporate Communications, located in New York. He explained that they were on deadline and couldn’t talk. I said I understood deadline pressure, and sat down to wait until they were done. When he called Israeli police to arrest us, we left. <br />
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<a href="http://www.ifamericansknew.org/media/erasevideo.html">http://www.ifamericansknew.org/media/erasevideo.html</a>
It sure the hell won't be armyguy
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Real education must ultimately be limited to men who insist on knowing, the rest is mere sheep-herding.
Ezra Pound
I sounds like Harper is a sort of Christian Zionist a la Pat Robertson or Jerry Falliwell or whatever his name is. Harper attends some sort of fundamentalist church and certain fundamentalist Christians stand strongly behind Israel.
As for why Martin was so pro-Israel, his biggest fundraiser was Gerry Schwartz who raised about 10.7 million at a dinner before the new campaign laws kicked in. He also probably supports any minority over our majority interests just as Tony Blair does in Britain from the bottom of his heart.
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People who openly hate America, while making money from America, burning U.S. flags, waving Mexican and Jamaican flags, while demanding the right to be American
citizen Toolkit
Today: Mon April, 3 2006
Iraqi Women Fight to Be Heard
CODEPINK marchers
Families slain, their plea is rebuffed by US government.
By Medea Benjamin
Published: March 7, 2006
AlterNet.org
On April 5, 2003, U.S. forces pushed into downtown Baghdad. The next day, they encircled the city and heavy fighting broke out. Bombs leveled entire buildings, tanks thundered down the streets and the sounds of gunshots reverberated through the air.
There was intense fighting in the neighborhood where Vivian Salim and her family lived. Terrified, she and her husband Izzat grabbed their three children and jumped into the car, trying to escape to a safer place. They were driving down the street when they crossed paths with a U.S. tank. With no warning, the soldiers in the tank began shooting straight at the car. Salim screamed, pleading with them to stop, but the soldiers just kept shooting.
When they finally stopped, they discovered that they had just killed a family of unarmed civilians. Vivian Salim's husband, her 15-year-old son Hussam, her 12-year-old son Waseem, and her daughter Merna, age 6, were all dead.
"I saw the bullets enter my children's heads," she said. "My son was sitting right next to me when the bullet went through his forehead. One minute I was a mother, a wife with a family; the next minute my family was gone."
The soldiers ordered Vivian to leave and to leave her family's bullet-ridden bodies behind. "After a week of pleading with the Americans, they finally gave the bodies back to us. We took them to the church where we washed them, prayed for them and then buried them." Vivian Salim now lives with her elderly parents.
Silence from Washington
The U.S. military never acknowledged their terrible mistake, never apologized to Salim for her loss and never offered her any financial help. Now, nearly three years later, Salim and six other Iraqi women have been invited by the women's peace group CODEPINK to come to the United States to tell their stories and push for an end to the occupation of their country. The other delegates are doctors, engineers, journalists and humanitarian aid workers. One delegate, Anwar kadhim Jwad, is also a widow whose husband and children were killed by U.S. soldiers at an unmarked roadblock.
But when Vivian Salim traveled across the long and dangerous desert road from Baghdad to Amman, Jordan on February 2 to solicit a two-week visa from the U.S. Embassy, her visa application was rejected. The consular officer told her that she failed to show convincing evidence that she would return to Iraq. When the CODEPINK staff called the state department to object, they were told that Salim did not have "sufficient family ties that would compel her to return." Anwar Kadhim Jawad, the other delegate whose family was killed by U.S. soldiers, was also rejected for lack of sufficient family ties.
"It's outrageous," said activist Cindy Sheehan, who will be in Washington D.C. to greet the Iraqi women's delegation. "First we kill these poor women's families, then we tell them they don't have sufficient family ties. First we invade their country, then we refuse to allow them to visit ours."
CODEPINK on frontlines
Gael Murphy, a CODEPINK cofounder who has been coordinating the delegation, is working with congress to try to reverse the decision. "These women have no desire to stay in the United States. We had a very hard time convincing them to come, but we told them how important it was for Americans to hear their stories," Murphy said.
CODEPINK cofounder Jodie Evans, who has led several fact-finding missions to Iraq, suspects that other factors influenced the state department's decision. "These women's stories are heartbreaking, and the administration doesn't want the U.S. public to hear them. They don't want the American people to know how cruel this occupation is, or to know that the majority of Iraqis want the U.S. troops to leave," Evans said.
The Bush administration insists it is bringing democracy to Iraq; yet refuses to listen to the wishes of the Iraqi people. Now we see just how far the administration will go to keep the voices of Iraqis away from the American public.
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Real education must ultimately be limited to men who insist on knowing, the rest is mere sheep-herding.
Ezra Pound
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27 in the military, 9 tours.
"guessing" armyguy
it is all you are familiar with, guess work
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Real education must ultimately be limited to men who insist on knowing, the rest is mere sheep-herding.
Ezra Pound
Christian Zionism believes that the Jews are still God's chosen people - and as a result, the State of Israel can do no wrong at all and needs to be backed up at the cost of one's salvation. By implication, Christians should support Jewry. This is a result of a premillenianistic view of Scripture.
By the grace of God, there are millions of Christians in many denominations who are very very opposed to Christian Zionism, because it also teaches that there is salvation for the Jews without faith in Jesus Christ. The Apostle Paul explained that this is not so in Romans Chapters 9 through 11.
I therefore seriously believe that Christian Zionists read the Bible wrong, and would urge everybody to check it out for themselves.
The State of Israel is a secular state based on the 19th century ideals of statehood. The Israeli government in fact persecutes Christians and denies Messianic Jews (those who believe that Jesus Christ came as the Messiah 2000 years ago) citizenship. There are also more Christians among the Palistinians. I pray for the "Persecuted Church" on both sides of that conflict.
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Real education must ultimately be limited to men who insist on knowing, the rest is mere sheep-herding.
Ezra Pound