This is a sad day throughout the world as we remember the war dead. For those of us who have relatives who have taken part in war, we know the horrible truths of war. Those are that we must do things for the good of the cause we are fighting for, and that there is a loser no matter what is done or no matter who wins. War has no true victors. For my father, he never recovered from war, the toll of war laid heavy even though he never killed another soldier. The front line was a few hundred miles away, the threat of invasion for Northern Canada was great. Some of the most vicious ship to ship battles were fought off the coast of Baffin Island as the Germans tested the ability to land on Canadian soil. In fact they invaded Canada, set up a weather post in Northern Quebec and patrolled the inland waters of Canada looking for POW camps.
Frobisher Bay where my father guarded what became his brother in law after the war, was on constant guard against invasion. The German POWs who were interned here both hoped for and were in fear of being patriated.
Growing up I heard stories from my father of soldiers that were returning and were based here who told of horrible atrocities committed by our own soldiers and of the Germans. In war it is a sad fact that war crimes trials only sentence those who have lost. The injustice of World War 2 has addressed only the crimes commited by Germany, but not those committed by the Americans, the British and the Canadians on the poor countries that felt their wrath.
To this day there has been no acknowledgement of the war crimes done by the Allies on the world. My father and my uncle both agreed on this point and they would be on the opposite sides of the world as to whether the purpose for the war was that Germany was wronged in the first world war, that it had a genuine right to fight another war to reclaim what it had lost.
This is the sad tale of war. Grown men fight for things that children know are wrong. Today's war on terror is wrong. It is fitting that all over the world where ceremonies are going on that are still joined with the Americans, the coerced partners in the war on terror, the skies are grey. In the USA it was a sunny day in Washington, in natural justice the world knows that the war on terror is over. The terrorist has won this one.
Tomorrow the victims will like the Germans felt, fight another war and we the innocent will feel the wrath because we the innocent are not so innocent. We have paid through our taxes, we have agreed by stepping into the aircraft that flies and invades the countries that have nothing to do with the war on terror and we have murdered.
It is shameful that we include Afghanistan and Iraq in the Remembrance day ceremony. Shame on the world, that is why the world was grey, it knows what is going on in Afghanistan is not right. You can see it in the faces of the soldiers, they know they are in a place they do not belong, fighting a war no one wants, killing people who are not truly terrorists.
The situation in Afghanistan is worse off now, the Taliban are just as ruthless in their treatment of the civilians. The military buys the Taliban off to keep them quiet, but for how long will this shameful secret remain secret? That in spite of invasion we have not removed the Taliban? Women are not as free as the media pretends to paint them. When the cameras go away and the Afghanis are left to themselves the Taliban come back.
In Iraq, you have CIA led murderers committing horrible atrocities on the Iraqi people. The insurgency is not as big as it is painted, the real truth is the insurgency in Iraq are the CIA fighting its own soldiers just as it did in Vietnam....
It is interesting to see whether the rest of the world will demand justice. Perhaps tomorrow we will see Prime Minister Blair facing a hanging himself in Baghdad, or Bush facing Taliban justice in Afghanistan, or Harper of Canada facing a beheading in Saudi Arabia...imagine if the Arabs treated us the way we treat them? I am not saying that the world leaders should pay with their lives for the countless thousands of innocent women and children that their collective armies have murdered for no other cause than being bought off by military contractors and oil companies...the war on terror is really a corporate war on taxpayers.
Canada paid for her stance as a puppet of the USA, Canada which used to help the poor, disadvantaged is now changing its stance. It is coming out of its true skin, that of a white bigot country, a country run by white supremacist bigots who have more to do with Bush and the deep South of the USA than they have to do with what the rest of Canada stands for.
At some point diminishing respect on one of Canada's most austere days, this day, will reflect even more with less countries coming out to respect us for our sacrifice. Canada has paid with its most sacred, its youth, we have seen generations of young Canadians sacrifice their lives so poorer countries can thrive better, now we are seeing this generation of young Canadians die because not because Canada is there to make Afghanistan better, Canada is there to fight the enemy of the white bigots of the USA.....shame shame shame...