The High Price Of Collusion In America’s Imperialist Wars.

[JohnyCanuck]

Harper’s Ottawa: The High Price Of Collusion In America’s Imperialist Wars.

When Canadian diplomat Richard Colvin returned from Afghanistan to appear before a Parliamentary committee in late 2009 and gave testimony that Canadian Forces were implicated in the mistreatment of prisoners and torture the Harper government responded with vehement denials, character assassination, and ultimately shut down Parliament to silence the furor over Colvin’s testimony.

Defense Minister Peter MacKay led the charge to discredit Colvin accusing him of being a Taliban dupe. Mackay went on to make the outrageous claim: “There has not been a single solitary proven allegation of abuse involving a transferred Taliban prisoner by Canadian Forces.” Mackay though, in attempting to discredit Colvin only discredited himself. Torture, since the scandal at Abu Ghraib in Iraq in 2004 had the become norm for American forces. As a NATO ally and highly integrated partner in warfare it is impossible to believe that Canadian forces could escape being implicated in the practice of torture.

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All point to collusion and implicates the Canadian government as it has actively suppressed the repatriation of Khadr, defied our courts and passively condoned the torture he underwent at Guantanamo. The Harper government’s obstinate refusal to handle the Khadr case with any sense of decency only points to its utter subservience to Washington’s imperial agenda. Colvin’s testimony, like the Khadr case, are revelations of the collusion and the government ineffectively counters them with pig-headed denialism, turning leaders into parodies of their former selves.

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War is highly corrosive to democratic values hollowing a nation’s wealth, its institutions, and its legislatures. Leaders who are supposed to lead are diminished to pathetic sycophants, pandering to the grand subterfuge. Where the instigators of this war, most prominently the USA, measure losses in terms of lives lost and money spent we are far from recognizing the damage done on the home front, not physical damage to cities and populations but the damage done to our democratic institutions, to the trust and the credibility of government, to the social contract with citizens. This despicable war has proven us to be our own worst enemy inflicting far greater damage on ourselves than any coterie of terrorists could do in ten life times.

Harper’s Ottawa is a blighted political landscape where not so honorable members loiter in the halls of power lacking courage and conviction, oblivious to their misdeeds.

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