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Canada should stop spending taxpayers' money on American wars

In UN resolution against the “glorification of Nazism”, Canada votes against is, along with U.S. and Ukraine...

To the Editor:

I was very impressed by Susan Eyre’s letter (“Canada a dependable silent partner in America’s illegal wars”). It is all true, and there is little hope for any betterment in the near future. The U.S. ruling class isn’t going to change any time soon. But the outcome of the UN resolution against the “glorification of Nazism” (Nov. 21) vote tells us that the world politics are changing. In the entire UN General Assembly, only three countries voted against the resolution: the U.S., Ukraine and Canada.

One can understand the American opposition to this resolution sponsored by Russia; America has no use for any country that is not its willing puppet. And Ukraine’s no vote was expected; after all, she is the only country now ruled by a Nazi government, installed by the U.S. and it friends, the same people who directed the overthrow of the democratically elected president Victor Yanukovych in February and who are directing Kiev’s war against Russian-speaking eastern Ukraine.

But Canada’s no vote is totally off the mark. During the Second World War, over 45.000 young Canadians lost their lives fighting Nazism and fascism, and our present government is, through this no vote, officially backing Nazis. According to www.thepeoplesvoice.org, “Canada voted no because their far-right prime minister, Stephen Harper, has been a virtually unquestioning supporter of all U.S. foreign-policy positions.”

Samantha Power, the U.S. representative at the UN, decided on voting against the resolution, because of its unacceptability to the Ukraine. “Her delegation was concerned about the overt political motives that had driven the main sponsor of the current resolution. … Therefore, the United States would vote against the resolution. In other words: the U.S. opposed this resolution, supposedly, because it was offensive to Ukraine. …Was the U.S. simply doing the will of the Ukrainian government? Or was the Ukrainian government doing the will of the U.S. government — the government that had installed it?”

Meantime, to show how able we are to protect democracy, Canada sent fighter planes to bomb the new enemy, ISIS (Islamic State of Iraq and Syria), made up of terrorist mercenaries, covertly organized, trained and equipped by the U.S. in Turkey, and financed by Saudis. What, then, does the U.S. initiative of fighting ISIS mean? It means nothing. It’s a ploy, a cover for renewed U.S. and allies attacks on Syria and Iraq. The real objective is the regime change in both countries, and a roundabout way of spreading American-style democracy.

A distinguished French statesman, Georges Clemenceau, made this observation: “America is the only nation in history which miraculously had gone directly from barbarism to degeneration without the usual interval of civilization.”

We knew all along that ISIS (or ISIL, Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant) was an American project, and that the American led war against the ISIS is a fraud. The website www.globalresearch.ca reports that, “The ISIL are the foot soldiers of the western military alliance. Their unspoken mandate is to wreck havoc and destruction in Syria and Iraq. …The incursion of the Islamic State brigades into Iraq starting in June 2014 was part of a carefully planned military-intelligence operation supported covertly by the U.S., NATO and Israel. The counterterrorism mandate is a fiction. America is the number one state sponsor of terrorism.”

Canada is preparing to expand its role in Middle East war. What Canada needs is a government that will spend the taxpayers’ money on projects benefiting this country, and not wasting it on American predatory colonial wars.

Anton Skerbinc

Boswell