LETTERS TO THE EDITOR
- September 4, 2007
To The Editor;
Stephen Harper refuses to acknowledge the slaughter of civilians that has become standard fair in the American run 'Canadian' mission in Afghanistan; instead he hides behind the most dishonest of propaganda.
Mr. Harper, like Paul Martin before him and more recently the delinquent government of Alberta, is using Canada's troops as a political shield. As the Canadian people become more aware of the atrocities we are being dragged into by the American leadership driving the war in Afghanistan, Harper's primary shield against the truth will inevitable weaken.
If the troops and their actions are not wholly beyond reproach then how safe can Stephen Harper or Stockwell Day's position, hiding directly behind them, really be?
Indeed, we as Canadians are all being shamed by the blood of innocent civilians who die on an almost daily basis, not because of the Taliban resistance, because of relentless American air and artillery power in an American oil war that our honest politicians will not even acknowledge.
The war in Afghanistan is being fought largely on behalf of American oil company Unocal. It is remarkable that the 'Canadian' media seems thus far unable to grasp the relevance.
Afghanistan is positioned conveniently between a lot of oil and natural gas, and the Americans. It is also, coincidently and depending on your priorities, positioned between a lot of oil, gas, and China.
The Chinese are not stupid. They saw that the Americans had positioned Unocal to be the dominant player, with regard to energy transmission through Afghanistan, so they decided to let Americans (and Canadians) die fighting to take control of the country; Opting instead to quite painlessly get control of the oil by simply purchasing Unocal. Of course, he who owns the pipeline also controls where the oil is delivered. In this case the difference between supplying the oil to China or America.
The Americans aren't stupid either (and here's a real lesson for Canadians), they recognized the threat of allowing competing foreign interests to take control of a strategic energy company. Accordingly, the U.S. Congress intervened to prevent Unocal from being taken over by CNOOC (Chinese National Offshore Oil Company).
Unocal, as an identifiable component of 'Big Oil' is also part of a globalist (SPP) concern which has probably been driving the US government's refusal to recognize our legitimate authority over the Canadian Arctic. Incidentally, the Americans are building 'heavy polar vessels' themselves.
So while our Sons and Daughters kill and die in Afghanistan, the same foreign corporate interests they are killing and dying for are putting the political and legal framework in place to steal a huge chunk of our Arctic property.
The whole affair strikes me as a very unusual way of saying 'thank you.'
It is an incontrovertible fact that Canadian troops are committing war crimes by handing Afghan prisoners over for torture. Our delinquent politicians' overt acceptance of illegal methods makes for a very strange foundational argument currently being used to generate support for our troops in the commission of criminal acts.
- Robert MacKay, Merritt
