Thanks to Eeyore, from Vlad Tepes Blog,, who just skyped this over to me,, for this great news,,, and the youtube videos of Mr. Harper's press conference today,,
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OTTAWA - Prime Minister Stephen Harper defended his decision to pull Canadian officials out of the United Nations General Assembly when Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad speaks there Wednesday even though some of Canada's allies, notably the United States, will keep their officials in the hall.
"That's a decision that the United States and every other country has a right to make, but Canada makes its own decisions on these matters, and we believe strongly that given President Ahmadinejad's . . . just disgraceful insulting declarations denying the Holocaust, there is no way I'm going to permit any official of the government of Canada to be present and give any legitimacy to remarks by a leader like that," Harper told reporters Wednesday in Oakville, Ont.
Israel has called on world leaders to walk out on Mr. Ahmadinejad to protest his call to destroy the Jewish state.
"I think the fact that such brutal thugs, such barbaric dictators like Ahmadinejad, speak in front of the world assembly is a real low point in the annals of the United Nations," Israel's deputy foreign minister Danny Ayalon told Reuters.Read more:
http://www.nationalpost.com/news/story.html?id=2024830#ixzz0Ry23M4O5
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3BZbkzcgn0o&feature=player_embedded
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TrL-PrAM96w&feature=player_embedded
I am going to post what Eeyore said on his page,, because,, he nails it right on the head,,
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The world is in an awful place when it is the rare leader who stands up for
simple historical truth. Stephen Harper is a man who Canadians should take a
great deal of pride in, not for saying what is simply true, (any leader should
be expected to speak the truth and not be lauded for it, but be punished for
lying) but for having the courage to stand against fashion when fashion goes
against the facts and can advantage one a great deal.
There are more Arab votes than Jewish votes.
There are more Muslim votes than Jewish votes.
There are more irrational leftist votes that are marching with the narrative, and many of those
are actually Jewish people, than Jewish votes who have a sense of self
preservation.
But Stephen Harper elected to tell the truth and stand by that despite what
it may and likely will cost him at the poles.
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Canada EY???
Hell ya!!!!
Hey! Interesting article. I think Mr. Harper is the right man on a right place. There was no other way how to express where Canada stays than to walk out. Don't you think that Ahmadinejad forgot to mention something? He absolutely didn't talk about contentious nuclear program in Iran...why is that?
ReplyDeleteRegards,
Ella