PM praises Afghan role as `noble, necessary'

[GliderGuider]

Source: The Star

PM praises Afghan role as `noble, necessary'
Canada, Australia have duty to `confront terror and defeat it,' Harper tells MPs in Canberra

Sep 11, 2007
Tonda MacCharles

CANBERRA, AUSTRALIA–Prime Minister Stephen Harper ... snip... said Canada and Australia have a duty to "confront terror and defeat it," guided "in part" by the attacks on New York and Washington.

"The buildings may have been American, but the targets were every one of us: every country and every person who chooses tolerance over hatred, pluralism over extremism, democracy over tyranny."

... snip...

"The cause is noble and necessary," said Harper.

"Because as 9/11 showed, if we abandon our fellow human beings to lives of poverty, brutality and ignorance, in today's global village their misery will eventually and inevitably become ours."

Both Canada and Australia have been "bloodied by terror," he said.

He pointed to the losses both nations have suffered: 24 Canadians died in the World Trade Center attack in New York, along with 70 soldiers and a diplomat in the ensuing conflict in Afghanistan.

Australia saw 88 citizens killed among the 202 people slain when Al Qaeda-inspired bombers targeted Bali's nightclub strip on Oct. 12, 2002.

Read more: http://www.thestar.com/News/article/255128

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"Both Canada and Australia have been 'bloodied by terror,' he said."
Jesus Christ, but some days I just want to slap Harper.

In Steve's mind, we need more dead people to justify the deaths of other people.

A bunch of Saudis killed a bunch of office workers (on orders from a bunch of filthy rich murderers) so we kill a bunch of Afghans so they kill a bunch of us.

And so it goes.


Maybe Cindy can ask Steve what "noble cause" Casey died for. It looks like the same one to me. Although don't ask me to name it.

[Kagemusha]

1. Wow, you mean the Mahdi Army's fighting us in Afghanistan too!? Had no idea.

In fact, having thought hard about what you're implying by saying it looks like the same cause to you, I still have no idea.

[PDJane]

2. It's just another illegal invasion and occupation.......

and there isn't one damn thing "noble" about it.

[saigon68]

3. Harper is a War Criminal