Canada in Afghanistan: Top Ten Under-reported Facts

Written By: RayB
Date: 2006-03-28 08:19:00
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HERE ARE TEN VERIFIABLE FACTS THE MEDIA HAS AVOIDED

Brief Overview:
FACT #1: Jean Chretien & Canadian Corporations Involved in Trans-Afghan Pipeline
FACT #2: Gordon O'Connor, Defence Minister, Is Former Military Lobbyist
FACT #3: Current Afghan Parliament Includes Warlords and Drug Lords
FACT #4: Afghan Warlords Considered Bigger Threat Than Taliban
FACT #5: Afghan Women Face Repression Despite Removal Of Taliban
FACT #6: Elected Afghan Woman Faces Death Threats For Speaking Out
FACT #7: Since the U.S.-led War, Afghanistan Is Increasingly Hooked on Heroin
FACT #8: U.S. And Coalition Forces Using Excessive Force & Arbitrary Detention
FACT #9: Canada Complicit In Violation of Human Rights For 'War On Terror'
FACT #10: U.S. Finds More Oil and Gas Reserves After 4-Year Search

<a href="http://www.globalresearch.ca/index.php?context=viewArticle&code=MED20060318&articleId=2125">http://www.globalresearch.ca/index.php?context=viewArticle&code=MED20060318&articleId=2125</a>

[Proofreader's note: this article was edited for spelling and typos on March 29, 2006]

In a world built, held up and run on deceit, lies and fraud, what's one more lie if it serves the purposes of the "globalized, free enterprise market economy" ?

Ed Deak, Big Lake, BC.

I’ll add one more; radioactive contamination from depleted uranium. That’s enough reason not to send one soldier to Afghanistan as far as I’m concerned. The use of depleted uranium is against international law. It is a weapon of mass destruction that keeps killing after the conflict and is a clear war crime.

Mike
Winnipeg

DO you have any proof of that? Is it the Canadian Army that is using this? I am starting to think that the sponsorship scandal was just a way to distract us from other more important things... We should sit Cretien, Martin and Harper in a commision for us to hear the truth.

"globalized, free enterprise market economy"

When people, and nations, have their economic rights sold out from underneath them by means of rigged treaties and price fixing oligarchies there is very little actually "free" under that form of enterprise.

It is not true "free enterprise", it is organized corporate plunder.

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"and the knowledge they fear is a weapon to be used against them"

"The Weapon" - Rush

The British and the Americans use depleted uranium coated munitions. Here is a link with some information. 
 
<a href="http://www.globalresearch.ca/index.php?context=viewArticle&code=SHR20060302&articleId=2057">http://www.globalresearch.ca/index.php?context=viewArticle&code=SHR20060302&articleId=2057</a> 
 
Canada was involved in a study a few years ago with Britain, the US, Germany, Australia and possibly New Zealand. I heard an interview with the American soldier involved in the study. The study was to determine if depleted uranium munitions were a hazard. In essence all countries involved ignored the report. The US soldier tried to press the point with his superiors and found out how fast you can become a civilian. Maybe another Vive Le Canada reader remembers this study and can provide more information. 
 
Mike

Some one call for a reference link?

<a href="http://www.vivelecanada.ca/article.php?story=20040928204701877">http://www.vivelecanada.ca/article.php?story=20040928204701877</a> 
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--- "I think it's important to always carry enough technology to restart civilization, should it be necessary." Mark Tilden

In a world built, held up and run on deceit, lies and fraud, what's one more lie if it serves the purposes of the "globalized, free enterprise market economy" ?

Great question!
To my mind anyway,.

Exactly
There is no further need to “count” lies.
Unless of course the liars can be held responsible through, Not any of “Their” courts!

Yes there is an “Their*”
It belongs to “Them**”
I see several points within Ed’s lead post. The above is a sample***

To my mind the idea becomes one of a ‘before knowing’
Or vigilance**** rather than the reactive position now taken.

The Dumbing down I have emphasised in the past is the Dumbing down of language, Language that is now applied to communication , from which there is meant to come understanding and agreement.
You can see by those words marked by asterisk words are sometimes deliberately given new meaning as a method of propaganda.

T he sarcastic ‘Dio’ would say, “ There exists in this time, the ‘here and now’, propaganda”
The MSM calls it business, and sell it to…
Well certainly NOT you, Dear Reader, for you are far more intelligent to believe***** the ‘news’

What is taken for reportage is in fact make-believe, and often presented in the “unfolding story of…”
In my never to humble opinion, yet another con-job for the non thinker.

Special thanks to Ed Deak for the inspiration.
Thanks Ed
Phil Osopher
Aka. Diogenes
Aka. David

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take note please in the dates of use and definition of the word just. it is important to realise these 'modifications of language (dumbing down) is by no accident. It has been deliberate, pirposefull and continuing as a method of control

just (adj.)
1382, "righteous in the eyes of God, upright and impartial," from O.Fr. just, from L. justus "upright, equitable," from jus (gen. juris) "right," especially "legal right, law," from O.Latin ious, perhaps lit. "sacred formula," a word peculiar to Latin (not general Italic) that originated in the religious cults, from PIE base *yewes- (cf. Avestan yaozda- "make ritually pure;" see jurist). The more mundane L. law-word lex covered specific laws as opposed to the body of laws.
just (adv.)
"merely, barely," 1665, from M.E. sense of "exactly, punctually" (c.1400), from just (adj.). Just-so story first attested 1902 in Kipling.

* their
c.1200, from O.N. þierra, gen. of þeir "they" (see they). Replaced O.E. hiera. Use with singular objects, scorned by grammarians, is attested from c.1300. Theirs (c.1300) is a double possessive. Alternate form theirn (1836) is attested in Midlands and southern dialect in U.K. and the Ozarks region of the U.S.

**them
c.1200, from O.N. þeim, dat. of þeir "they" (see they). Replaced O.E. cognate him, heom. Themselves is c.1500, a northern dial. variant of O.E. heom selfum (dative).

*** sample
c.1300, "something which confirms a proposition or statement," from Anglo-Fr. saumple, aphetic of O.Fr. essample, from L. exemplum "a sample" (see example). Meaning "small quantity (of something) from which the general quality (of the whole) may be inferred" (usually in a commercial sense) is recorded from 1428; sense of "specimen for scientific sampling" is from 1878. The verb meaning "to test by taking a sample" is from 1767.

****.vigilant
c.1480, from L. vigilantia "wakefulness," from vigilia (see vigil). Vigilance is attested from 1570.
vigilante
"member of a vigilance committee," 1856, Amer.Eng., from Sp. vigilante, lit. "watchman," from L. vigilantem (see vigilance). Vigilant man in same sense is attested from 1824 in a Missouri context. Vigilance committees kept informal rough order on the frontier or in other places where official authority was imperfect

***** believe-
O.E. belyfan, earlier geleafa (Mercian), gelefa (Northumbrian), gelyfan (W.Saxon) "believe," from P.Gmc. *ga-laubjan "hold dear, love," from PIE base *leubh- "to like, desire" (see love). Spelling beleeve is common till 17c.; then altered perhaps by influence of relieve. As a synonym for "Christian," believer is attested from 1549. To believe on instead of in was more common in 16c. but now is a peculiarity of theology; believe of also sometimes was used in 17c.

make-believe -
"pretence," 1811, from make + believe.

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Real education must ultimately be limited to men who insist on knowing, the rest is mere sheep-herding.
Ezra Pound

We all know that the Americans are using depleted uranium but my interest was more about if Canada has ever used them. That would certainly be against our Canada free of nuclear weapon laws.

Radioactive contamination from depleted uranium? We don't have any. The only rds that were designed were 120mm Tank rds. 1. We don't have Leo Tanks there, and if we did. I would know. I'm an Armour Crewman.
2. They have not been used since the first Gulf War. Another Uninformed CIVIE. DUMB DUMB.

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27 in the military, 9 tours.

RayB
You were one of the dumbies, that had us not buy Nuke Subs. OOO they are Nukes, OOOO No. We're all going to die. AAAAAAAAA.
And what No Nuke Law. We did have Nukes in the 50-70s. The damn missles were bought from the US. The CF104s, CF 101s were nuke Aircraft.
OOOOOOOOOOOO nukes we're all going to die.

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27 in the military, 9 tours.

I was only refering to nuclear fission weapon use and not for electricity production. I am quite sure that our subs are not equipped with Nukes, nor are our F18.

That no nuke law was passed in the 80's I think.

AG, tone down the name calling please. It doesn't help your argument, and only creates harsh feelings.

Thanks.

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"I think it's important to always carry enough technology to restart civilization, should it be necessary." Mark Tilden

Armyguy

It is quite obvious the military was a wise choice for you as a career.
The reasons for my claim are lost to you, of that I am certain
The finer points of how long ago DU was used has little impact on their half-life.

The opinions you express are typical of the closed mind

Lay down your life for your superiors for that is the limit of your worth judging by your words on these pages.
You are after all only a mere order-taker, Someone’s mercenary.

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Real education must ultimately be limited to men who insist on knowing, the rest is mere sheep-herding.
Ezra Pound

<a href="http://www.countercurrents.org/hall230306.htm">http://www.countercurrents.org/hall230306.htm</a> 
 
read it! armyguy--- Real education must ultimately be limited to men who insist on knowing, the rest is mere sheep-herding. 
Ezra Pound