Editor:
Sir Arthur Conan Doyle wrote: "There is nothing more deceptive than an obvious fact."
So it is with war propaganda. Our MP John Weston stated recently in the House of Commons that his constituents "overwhelmingly" support the expulsion of accredited Syrian and Iranian diplomats from Canada (Hansard #147). I have written asking him to explain why he believes we support this sabre rattling, given that it is propelling us ever closer to a WW3 scenario.He needs to get in touch with constituents whose ideas clash with neo-conservative, short-sighted, slash-public-spending-(including the Canadian Coast Guard on its 50th birthday)-and-privatize-everything policies and jingoistic warmongering.
NATO, the club (pun intended) of the most powerful nations in the world, reduced tiny Yugoslavia, Iraq, Afghanistan and Libya to rubble with millions of civilian casualties.At least a half-million children died in Iraq alone as a result of our policies. We showered their unfortunate citizens with more bombs than were detonated by all sides in both world wars combined!Our public treasuries were drained to gorge multinational armament companies.Veterans returned with minds poisoned by the atrocities and with bodies contaminated with depleted uranium and other toxic munitions saturating killing fields.
The big Western media say that the presidents of Syria and Iran are monsters.They don't have nuclear weapons - we do.The U.S. threatens to use them, even against non-nuclear states.Who are the real terrorists?
The same corporations profiting from arms production also own the major media. Harper appointed the CBC boss. If you rely on mainstream newspapers and TV for your world news, you are often being deceived by obvious facts.
Tell Ottawa to bring our troops home and spend our tax dollars here on programs of economic uplift for common people.Excellent independent world events analysis sources are these non-profits: www.voltairenet.org and www.globalresearch.ca
Roger Lagasse, Halfmoon Bay
