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Libya, Canada's other ugly war

The only certain outcome if Gaddafi falls will be that the country's oil, now nationalized, will end up in the hands of Western oil companies. But it is not just the oil. Belying Gaddafi's image as nothing more than an eccentric, or even insane, he has be

POWELL RIVER, B.C.—NATO members, including Canada, are continuing their massive bombing campaign against Libya in a war that may just break the record for the casual breaking of international law, and lying about the motives for the war. There is no mandate to engage in "regime change" yet everyone, including the Harper government, openly admit that that is, in fact, what they are doing.

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Libya, Canada's other ugly war

The only certain outcome if Gaddafi falls will be that the country's oil, now nationalized, will end up in the hands of Western oil companies. But it is not just the oil. Belying Gaddafi's image as nothing more than an eccentric, or even insane, he has be

POWELL RIVER, B.C.—NATO members, including Canada, are continuing their massive bombing campaign against Libya in a war that may just break the record for the casual breaking of international law, and lying about the motives for the war. There is no mandate to engage in "regime change" yet everyone, including the Harper government, openly admit that that is, in fact, what they are doing.

  

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