Prime Minister Harper CBC Interview January 16, 2012: Prime Minister Stephen Harper States He Will Decide War With Iran in Secret With “Allies”!

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Prime Minister Stephen Harper States He Will Decide War With Iran in Secret With “Allies”! No Mention of Consulting the Canadian People or Parliament

Don Currie, Editor Focus On Socialism, Chair CPS January 17, 2012

www.FocusOnSocialism.ca



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A convenient thing about being Prime Minister of Canada is that handlers can arrange a CBC

primetime interview and be confident that regardless of how banal the questions and how

preposterous the

answers

the

event

will

be

dutifully

spun

to

the

gullible

as

credible.

The Prime Minister with a straight face told Peter Mansbridge in an exclusive CBC interview

that Iran “frightens him.” Claiming it was "beyond dispute" that Iran is developing nuclear

weapons because Iranians are religious fanatics and prepared without hesitation to use such

weapons to achieve religious or political purposes.1 Peter Mansbrige let him get away with

that racist and bizarre canard.

If one missed who Prime Minister Harper was referring to one might have concluded he was

talking about Mitt Romney, Rick Santorum and Newt Gingrich, far right US Republican

presidential candidates,

all

of

whom

proudly

proclaim

their

religious

fanaticism

and

state

their readiness to bomb Iran with our without Congressional approval.2

The Prime Minister’s right‐wing US Republican political kin aspire to be President of the only

country in the world that has ever used nuclear weapons on civilian populations, maintains

hundreds of nuclear weapons on hair trigger standby and can deliver them anywhere on the

planet via a global satellite system of delivery interconnected with about 800 military bases

and nuclear equipped fleets, one of which cruises near the coastal waters of Iran. Both the

US and NATO maintain a preemptive first strike nuclear doctrine.

Prime Minister

Harper,

touted

as

an

astute

politician

and

promoted

as

having

international

credentials, simply avoids addressing the possibility that the Iranian government may have a

legitimate concern about the threat posed by the USA to its vital security, economic

interests, its sovereignty and its right to sell its oil to whomever it wishes.

Prime Minister Harper believes such a right only accrues to Canada. Sounding downright

patriotic the Prime Minister asserted in his interview with Mansbridge that Canada will not

tolerate US interference in the government’s plans to facilitate the export of Alberta oil to

Asian markets via the Gateway pipeline and remarked caustically that US environmentalist

interference

was

tantamount

to

considering

Canada

as

a

“national

park”.

One

would

have

thought given such a defense of Canadian sovereignty that the Prime Minister would

1 http://www.cbc.ca/news/politics/story/2012/01/17/pol‐harper‐iran.html

2 http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/think‐tanked/post/irans‐ahmadinejad‐in‐latin‐america‐mitt‐romney‐is‐

unelectable‐says‐ jon‐huntsman‐and‐more‐am‐briefing/2012/01/10/gIQAJbqznP_blog.html

http://www.cbc.ca/news/politics/story/2012/01/17/pol-harper-iran.html






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understand better the concern of Iranian President Mahmoud Ahamadinejad who rejects

the US claim that the Persian Gulf and the Gulf of Oman should be considered US lakes.

Prime Minister Harper with the assistance of the likes of Peter Mansbridge is engaged in fear

mongering. Massive US‐NATO retaliatory power ranged against Iran is comforting to the

Prime Ministers adoring philistine circle that believes Mahmoud Ahmadinejad if not deposed

in another NATO regime change war will force Canadians to convert to Islam, steal all RRSP

savings, ban Tim Hortons and compel the Toronto Maple Leafs to re‐locate to Tehran. What

else can one say except to ridicule the Prime Minister’s ludicrous double standard?

Prime Minister Harper is making it all up for his fans. He is simply attempting once again to

prepare the Canadian people for another G7‐NATO war, again against an oil rich Middle

Eastern state

that

poses

no

threat

to

Canada

or

its

people.

Prime Minister Harper is reckless in the extreme in his statements. Standing beside President

Obama in Washington last December he said in his usual unctuous style that US enemies

cannot be friends of Canada.

Where does that put the Canadian people if the Prime Minister decides at Brussels and not in

Parliament to once again propel the country into another NATO regime change war this time

with Iran?

What

are

some

the

realities?

The people of Iran are dependent on 80% of their country’s revenue from oil exports, 20% of

which goes to the EU, 450,000 barrels a day to Italy, Greece and Spain all members of NATO,

all ostensibly Canada’s allies. One wonders why Peter Mansbridge, a media icon, wasn’t

astute enough to ask who it is that Prime Minister Harper consults with in secret about a war

on Iran? Does it include Spain, Italy and Greece all NATO members and allies and all

dependent on Iranian oil? Are these countries mired in an EU financial crisis, prepared to go

to war with Iran and if they aren’t and oppose a US‐NATO attack on Iran because it will

endanger their oil imports, will they become Canada’s enemies?

One wonders what the Italian‐Canadian, Spanish‐Canadian and Greek‐Canadian communities

will say about a NATO war that endangers the oil supplies of their homelands?

The foreign policy of the Harper Conservative government is not a Canadian policy it is a

NATO war policy. Prime Minister Harper’s Conservative government has no peace policy.




The NATO war policy is based on a long standing US imperialist strategy to overthrow all oil

rich regimes in the Middle East that do not abjectly accede to US foreign policy diktat.

A Canadian government representing the prevailing sentiment among Canadians for peace

and friendship, mutual beneficial trade without political sanctions and threats, with all

peoples, regardless of the economic and political system they choose, could be making a

major contribution to world peace and would serve Canada’s interests.

The Harper Conservative government is not that government. The Conservative

Government is a NATO war government. It has no independent foreign and peace policy

based on the interests of the Canadian people and independent of NATO and its principal

partner, the USA.

What is inexplicable is that there is not a single opposition party in Parliament that has the

courage to say so and advocate a Canadian foreign policy of peace in opposition to Prime

Minister Harper’s foreign policy of NATO regime change wars.

If Canadians are to have peace we need a government that promotes it. That means

extricating Canada from NATO and the sooner the better.

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Prime Minister Harper CBC Interview January 16, 2012: Prime Minister Stephen Harper States He Will Decide War With Iran in Secret With “Allies”!