Do you recognize the country now?

The last several elections we of the left we accused that we kept claiming that Harper had a hidden agenda. Well, first off we never said it was hidden, it was all out in the open. We did claim that we "wouldn't be able to recognize Canada when they were through!" Well, I can hardly recognize it now. In the last six months I've had to rebut this e-mail chain letter three times.

It is no longer a matter of dispute. Facts, information, measurements; these bar no idea from the head of a conservative. We have already seen this in the US with their great tea bagging nation rising up and claiming old campaign photos as proof that Palin's book is well received, or pictures of the million man march used to support the 100,000 number claimed for the teabaggers march on Congress. What did it turn out to be, maybe 10k?

Canadian conservatives have been doing this for a lot less time I hope, but they have been infected with it since about 2006. The Stephan Harper party of Canada will say or do anything, break the law, attack the weak and prevent the weak from protecting themselves, hide torture, destroy Canada's image in the world and here.

The latest from the hill, in open debate, and on the public record is this piece of tripe:

Mrs. Cheryl Gallant (Renfrew—Nipissing—Pembroke, CPC):
Mr. Speaker, on the weekend I had an opportunity to speak to a soldier from Canadian Forces Base Petawawa who had served several rotations in Afghanistan. He urged me not to go forth with an inquiry on this issue. He said that every time the Afghan deployment is debated in Parliament, it puts the lives of our soldiers in theatre at greater risk. He recounted that when the motion to withdraw from Afghanistan or to end the combat mission in 2011 was before Parliament, they were in a operation where they heard the insurgents on the radio saying to each other that they should kill as many Canadian soldiers as possible because we were debating this in the House of Commons and that when Canadians saw the caskets of soldiers coming off the plane it increased public pressure. They wanted the MPs to vote to get out of Afghanistan as quickly as possible.

I asked him if they listened to Al Jazeera while they were fighting at the front, so to speak, and he said, “No, ma'am. We heard this chatter on our coms”. So they had heard Taliban talking to one another, urging each other to kill as many Canadian soldiers as possible. He credits the leader of the NDP directly for the death of his best friend as a consequence of that.

Seriously? They heard chatter on their comms? In English/French? While I'm sure the Taliban leaders a well educated why would they speak to each other in English?

Not to put too fine a point on it but I think this is a made up conservative talking head. A sock puppet by any other name...

If she didn't lie about the soldier, then the "comms" that were overhead were MEANT to be overheard. You know, psychological warfare. The kind the troops should have been trained to realize was being targeted at them. To say that the "enemy" didn't want to kill them until they heard about some debate in Canada is pretty damn ridiculous.

The original title of this post was "Conservatives, they lie, all the time." It goes much further than that. Montreal Simon says it well.


HatTip to : Creekside via Stageleft