NDP: our troops are terrorists

Canada's troops in Afghanistan have been "acting like terrorists, destroying communities, killing and maiming innocent people ", according to a resolution that will be voted on by New Democrats at the party's convention in Quebec City this weekend.

 

The resolution is one of 104 proposals on international affairs from local riding associations that will be presented at the convention. Others suggest Canada withdraw from the North American Aerospace Defense Command (NORAD), the World Trade Organization and the North American Free Trade Agreement, while one riding association proposes a freeze on trade with Israel until the "occupation of Palestinian lands" is ended.

"The Canadian occupation is propping up a regime composed of barbarous warlords who are little better than the Taliban ," says one riding association.

 

So it's only a draft right?  Sure.  But Jack Layton hasn't condemned it (his spokesperson offered no comment), and the only person who has condemned it is the sole NDP MP who supports the mission in Afghanistan, Peter Stoffer.  (How long before Jack kicks him out for not following the party line?)

 

I shouldn't even have to offer comment on this, but it seems it is necessary.  It is utterly despicable of Canadians of any political stripe to talk about our soldiers this way.  Our men and women in uniform are some of the best this country has to offer, who have left family and comfort to fight an enemy that cannot be appeased or negotiated with.  Reasonable people can disagree about the mission to Afghanistan, but to accuse our soldiers of atrocities is beyond the limits of civil discourse.  These resolutions should be debated now that they have been put forth, and then they should be overwhelmingly defeated.  If they are not, the NDP has no business on the national stage.