Canada's Big Baird consults on Iran with Zionists

... formulating government policy based on extremist views

Contributor: "Relayer"

John Baird: Iran's threat is real, not rhetoric

Excerpts:

If Mr. Caplan had bothered to pick up the phone and ask me if I had heard of Meir Dagan or Amos Yadlin, I would have told him that not only have I heard of them, I reached out to them weeks ago to ensure they could attend a discussion of the Iranian situation while I am in Tel Aviv this week ...

It might come as a surprise to Mr. Caplan that Liberal MP Irwin Cotler and I frequently discuss the problem posed by a nuclear Iran, and his counsel amounts to much more than “spin notes and sound bites.”

Big Baird

The above is a Globe and Mail article by Canada's Minister of Foreign Affairs in response to Gerald Caplan’s excellent article earlier this week.

Note the reader comments – over 1100.  If you sort by “highest score” you will see that Canadians are not buying Baird’s bunk.

Here's the article by Gerald Caplan that Baird is referring to:

Harper and the U.S. are wrong on the Iran threat

Excerpt:

It’s unlikely that Stephen Harper, John Baird, Mitt Romney or Newt Gingrich have ever heard of Tamir Pardo, Meir Dagan, Amos Yadlin, Gabi Ashkenazi or Yuval Diskin. But it would probably make no difference if they had. After all, Benjamin Netanyahu certainly knows them well and ignores them completely.

So the reckless escalation of aggression against Iran, both physical and rhetorical, continues apace. Presumably the end game is both regime change in Tehran and an end to Iran’s nuclear ambitions – admirable, if unrealistic, objectives. Far more plausible is an uncontrollable conflict that will spread throughout the Middle East and from there to, well, no one knows. But it is not wrong to fear the worse, as many knowledgeable observers do.

But those who know least, like the American lunatic fringe (aka the Republican Party) and the Harper government, are either willfully ignorant of or indifferent to the logical consequences of their positions.

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Ed Note:  Baird, as usual, shot off his answer before thinking.  Consequently, he effectively admits that he intends to take counsel in Tel Aviv from people to whom the Israeli Prime Minister gives no credence. He also reveals that he receives advice from extreme Zionist Irwin Cotler (who has been ranting against Iran for such a long time that everybody knows what he is going to say so no need to ask him) which amounts to an admission that any perceived differences between the Libs and the Cons are US-style - strictly cosmetic.

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