When the U.S. and Canadian governments points their finger at someone, remember there are 3 pointing back at them.

Which is true?  Is Libya attacking or making threats of attacking another country or is Libya engulfed in a civil war?  The correct answer is Libya is in the midst of a revolution.   The citizens of Libya are now fighting amongst themselves and against Gaddafi’s military and mercenary forces to remove from power a US backed dictator.  A civil war is now raging to oust US friendly Gaddafi.  It is a civil war.  No harm is being caused or threatened against the US, Canada or any other nation.  Libya isn’t preparing to attack its neighbors.  Libya hasn’t waged wars of aggression against its neighbors.  Then why is the Canadian government imposing sanctions against the Libyan people?  Why is suspected war criminal Stephen Harper calling for harsh economic sanctions against the people who seeks freedom from an oppressive ruler?  Why has Harper called the international criminal court to ask the court to investigate a civil war?  The International Criminal Court is there to investigate war crimes, crimes against humanity and crimes against peace, not civil wars.  War crimes, crimes against humanity and crimes against peace have been committed by Stephen Harper, Peter MacKay, George W Bush, Dick Cheney, Donald Rumsfeld, Robert Gates and Barack Obama – not Gaddafi.

Libya and Gaddafi didn’t attack Afghanistan, Iraq or Pakistan.  The United States, Canada and NATO did.  Libya and Gaddafi aren’t the ones who are waging wars of aggression against Afghanistan, Iraq and Pakistan.  The United States, Canada and NATO are waging wars of aggression against the foreign sovereign states of Afghanistan, Iraq and Pakistan.  Planning for, preparing for, waging and participation in wars of aggression is a war crime, a crime against peace and a crime against humanity.  Libya hasn’t killed millions of innocent civilians.  The United States has.  The civilian casualty count for just the US war of aggression against Iraq is estimated to be over 1.5 million civilians killed.  Over 1 million civilians murdered as the result of U.S. military airs trikes, shelling, armed assaults and mercenary attacks.

Libya isn’t the ones torturing civilians.  The United States and the UK are and Canada has been accused by the International Red Cross and Canadian diplomats to be complicit in torture.  Have you forgotten about Abu Ghraib. Have you forgotten why Stephen Harper prorogued Parliament?   Stephen Harper shut down Parliament for two months, to kill an inquiry into the torture of Canadian held Afghan detainees.

Libya isn’t occupying Iraq and Afghanistan.  The United States, Canada, France, the UK, Germany and other NATO countries are the ones guilty of crimes that have been committed and are still being committed on a daily bases in Afghanistan.  There are no opposing military forces in Afghanistan yet the U.S. Canada, France, the UK, Germany and other NATO leaders are to this day ordering military air strikes and armed ground assaults against the civilian populations in Afghanistan and now Pakistan.   U.S. Canada, France, the UK, Germany and other NATO leaders are ordering their troops to attack and kill civilians.  Yes Gaddafi has ordered his troops to kill civilians.  But one must remember that in Libya there is a civil war not a war of aggression, crime against humanity and crime against peace  like the U.S. Canada, France, the UK, Germany and other NATO leaders are waging.  Libya has no troops in Iraq or Afghanistan or Pakistan.  Libya doesn’t have unmanned drones which are being used to assassinate thousands of unarmed civilians.

Gaddafi’s crimes are many but his crimes pale in comparison to the the crimes committed by the U.S. Canada, France, the UK, Germany and other NATO leaders.  Gaddafi isn’t using depleted uranium munitions and phosphorus bombs against his people.  The United States has used depleted uranium munitions and phosphorus bombs against the civilian populations of both Iraq and Afghanistan.

The United States has murdered millions of unarmed civilians in 3 wars of aggression (Afghanistan, Iraq and Pakistan), has unlawfully kidnapped thousands of civilians Worldwide and has subjected them to torture, has used unmanned military drones to assassinate thousands of unarmed civilians, used various types of banned chemical munitions in both Afghanistan and Iraq and yet to this day no country is calling for sanctions against the United States.

The United States, Canada, France, the UK, Germany and other NATO countries needs to clean up their own act. Other countries may have acted terribly in the past, but U.S., Canadian, French, English and German citizens should not be blinded to the sins of their own government. Since World War II, in terms of numbers of military adventures, the United States has been the most aggressive country in the world. And many such interventions cannot be blamed on the need to combat communism or terrorism. Even after the United States’ major foe—the Soviet Union—collapsed, the U.S. expanded its informal empire and stepped up military activities across the globe. The United States bombed Serbia and Kosovo (the U.S. actually killed more civilians than the civil war); invaded Panama, Afghanistan, and Iraq (twice); and intervened in Somalia, Haiti, and Bosnia. Furthermore, the United States has kidnapped people and illegally rendered them to secret prisons in countries where torture is perpetrated, or simply had the CIA or U.S. military do the honors. These prisoners have been denied both the rights of prisoners of war and the rights of the accused that the U.S. Constitution guarantees—for example, their right to challenge detention using a writ of Habeas Corpus. A substantial portion of these kidnapped civilians are innocent.

If the United States, Canada, France, the UK, Germany and NATO are going to criticize other countries’ behavior, both historical and current, they should eliminate the double standard at home and abroad, and clean up their own act first.

If Canadian minority Prime Minister Stephen Harper is calling the International Criminal Court to have Gaddafi be held accountable for his crimes then Stephen Harper must also be held accountable for his crimes.  After all Harper is still ordering Canadian soldiers to attack and kill civilians. There are no opposing military forces in Afghanistan.  The Taliban are civilians.  They were the ruling party of the Afghan people before being unlawfully overthrown in a war of aggression by the United States, Canada, France, the UK, Germany and other NATO states.  The Taliban are the Afghan resistance.  They are fighting to free their country and its people from the unlawful war of aggression and occupation by U.S., Canadian, French, English, German and NATO armed forces.

Stephen Harper knew that Afghan civilian prisoners, that were in Canadian custody, were being transfered to and tortured by US trained, paid and controlled Afghan security forces.  Stephen Harper personally interfered and obstructed justice by shutting down both a military and Parliamentary inquiry into the handling and torturing of civilian prisoners that were in Canadian custody.  The inquiries were attempts by the Canadian people to do the right thing and have Stephen Harper made accountable for his crimes.  Accused war criminal, Stephen Harper, shut down the military commission inquiry and prorogued the Canadian government to escape accountability.

Stephen Harper and Gaddafi have both ordered their military forces to attack and kill civilians.  Gaddafi in his own country and against his country’s people.  Harper, on the other hand has ordered the Canadian military to attack and kill civilians in the foreign sovereign state of Afghanistan and against the Afghan people.  Both are committing criminal acts against civilians – crimes against humanity.  Both are responsible for the killing of civilians.  Both, not just Gaddafi, must be held accountable for their crimes.

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