Saturday, March 19, 2011

The Libya Lie



Stephen Harper sends Canadian jets to Libya to enforce a cease fire in their civil war. As soon as that happens, Libya announces a cease fire. THEN the Western forces start bombing Libya and THEIR offensive begins. What's wrong with this picture?

I've compared Libya to Saudi Arabia. Why would we support a revolution against Gaddafi but not a revolution against the Monarchy in Saudi Arabia? Because we like the Saudi King and he lets the US have troops there? Because we don't like Gaddafi since he refuses foreign ownership of his country's oil? This is so wrong.

David Cameron said he was afraid they would lose the opportunity to strike in Libya. He was right as soon as the ceasefire started there was no need to bomb Libya. Unless of course they ceased the opportunity to start bombing Libya after the ceasefire already started and hope the media forgets that small detail.

Giving Stephen Harper a majority government is just plain wrong. It diminishes us as Canadians. Operation Libya is only about oil. As soon as the Western Allies started bombing Gaddafi's forces, rebels took the oil town of Ras Lanouf and the next day the rebels started shipping oil.

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