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Canuck MPs blast Harper during tour of Lebanon
A group of Canadian parliamentarians toured devastated south Lebanon Sunday, and came away fuming at Prime Minister Stephen Harper and his acceptance of what they referred to as Israeli's "crimes against humanity." "We could have been a voice of peace calling for a ceasefire and a negotiated agreement," said Peggy Nash, a Toronto MP and New Democrat as she toured Qana, the town where 29 civilians died as they hid from the Israeli bombs. "That's what should have happened here, and these people might have been still alive."

Nash was one of three Canadian parliamentarians who toured the Lebanese war zones with the National Council on Canada-Arab relations. She was joined on the trip by Etobicoke Liberal Borys Wrzesnewskyj and Bloc Québécois member Maria Mourani on a fact-finding mission to the war-ravaged towns of Qana, Bint Jbeil and Aytaroun. The trip would have been an all-party affair, but Conservative MP Dean del Mastro pulled out at the last moment.
The only smart one.
"It's hard to know what to say," Nash told CBC News as she toured the devastated towns. "It's overwhelming."

They met residents who had lost their family in the Israeli airstrikes last month, and offered their condolences to the Shalhoub family, which included most of the 29 Qana victims. They went to Aytaroun, where the Canadian al-Akhras family was caught in the conflict and eight people died.

"I'm ashamed to be a Canadian," said Wrzesnewskyj, saying Harper favoured the Israeli position too much.
I ashamed to hear you're a Canadian.
"Canada should send in peacekeepers," he said, and Canada should allow dialogue with the political wing of Hezbollah. "We don't want to see any more terrorism, whether the terrorism of suicide bombers or launching rockets or state terrorism. This is state terrorism," he said pointing to the bomb craters behind him.

Both Mourani and Wrzesnewskyj referred to Israel's "crimes against humanity," and criticized Harper for "condoning human massacres."
Support Harper in every way possible - the Looney Tranzi *bats are still there, still spewing, still symping, still seething, still scheming for a return to power.
Posted by: Shung Phinetle2153 2006-08-21
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