David Frum secretly rules Canada

According to an Ontario Liberal MPP, anyway:

Ottawa-Orleans MPP Phil McNeely yesterday called Israel a "rogue state," and said the federal government should apologize to Canadians for its support of the Jewish state's "collective punishment" of the people in Gaza and Lebanon.

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Mr. McNeely waded into the volatile Middle East conflict with stinging criticism of everyone from former U.S. Secretary of State Henry Kissinger to U.S. President George W. Bush and Prime Minister Stephen Harper, whom he called a puppet of the U.S. leader. He said it may be dangerous to speak out, but he feels so strongly about what is going on in the Middle East that he couldn't remain silent.

"I believe the Harper government, which receives its foreign policy from David Frum direct from George Bush, should apologize to the Canadian people for their support of the collective punishment of people first in Gaza and now in Lebanon," he said in an e-mail obtained by the Citizen. "As an elected member of Parliament I cannot believe that the democratically elected members of Hamas have been captured and imprisoned by this rogue state."

Mr. McNeely lamented that Lebanon, which was finally on the mend after decades of war and devastation, has been set back years, with the destruction of its infrastructure by Israel.

"Kissinger destroyed Lebanon many years ago. How can the world stand by and accept this," he wrote.

"George Bush and his gang, including David Frum, went into Iraq and killed 30,000 civilians with "Shock and Awe." It made great TV for CNN and a few Americans lost their lives. Arabs and particularly Muslims do not count as people for some governments, but the destruction of a country the killing and maiming of civilians for Oil is not acceptable today."

"National Post columnist Mr. Frum denied being a foreign policy adviser to the Harper government," adds the Ottawa Citizen.

Damian P.

Posted by damian at July 20, 2006 10:14 AM