POSTED RESPONSE TO A COLUMN BY NORMAN SPECTOR IN TORONTO'S GLOBE AND MAIL
This is just a shabby hatchet job, Norman Spector.
All thinking Canadians know why Chretien agreed to send some troops to Afghanistan: they hardly require your efforts at twisting the facts.
Chretien was the last worthy Prime Minister we had and, from the looks of things in the national parties, the last we can expect for some while.
He kept us out of the mass murder of Iraq: a million dead, two million refugees, and an economy destroyed for a generation.
He had a fair and balanced view of the Middle East unlike our current Prime Minister, and he would never have done what shabby Harper did, questioning the UN observers in Lebanon during Israel's ugly invasion, brave people doing their duty including a fine Canadian officer, all deliberately targeted by Israel.
Knowing something of your unbalanced views on the Middle East, you likely think the war crimes in Iraq were a worthwhile effort.
And your only public legacy, Norman Spector, is insulting a woman in public. This piece appears to originate from the same nasty little dark place.
Oh, and there’s a few laughably ridiculous statements about events in the Middle East to your credit.
