The Coalition to Oppose the Arms Trade (COAT) has a new slideshow called:

Afghanistan, Iraq and "Missile Defence":

Canadian Hypocrisy and Complicity in the Business of War

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COAT's latest resource for peace/antiwar activists is an informative slide presentation that uses hundreds of eye-catching graphics to illustrate the Canadian government's hypocrisy in the business of war. This theme is highlighted by focusing on three examples: Afghanistan, Iraq and "Ballistic Missile Defense" (BMD). 

The slide show summarizes, in an often humourous way, many of the well-researched and thoroughly-documented articles that have been published in COAT's magazine, Press for Conversion! 

The data in this slide show is balanced with healthy doses of social commentary and spiced with the biting wit and wisdom of such satirists as Mark Twain, Oscar Wilde and Pogo.

As usual, when it comes to war, our government has been saying one thing and doing another. This duplicity is exposed by examining Canada's deep and ongoing participation in U.S.-led wars now being waged in Afghanistan and Iraq, as well as in the biggest, weapons-development program in world history, namely America's BMD program.

Canadian governments have long used deceptive PR campaigns to trick Canadians into thinking that our country is a powerful, global force for peace and democracy. This mythical perception that shapes how we see ourselves and our government's role in the world is a clever fabrication used to cover up Canada's deep integration into the U.S. war machine. 

This slideshow presents a wealth of little-known evidence to demonstrate beyond a doubt that Canada's government, corporate and scientific sectors, as well as our armed forces, have made significant, longstanding, vitally-important and ongoing contributions to the Iraq war and to America's BMD weapons development program. And, all of the major pretexts for the war in Afghanistan are also analyzed and debunked.

This autumn, Richard Sanders, coordinator of the Coalition to Oppose the Arms Trade (COAT) and editor of COAT's magazine, Press for Conversion!, presented this slide show in five cities.

If you are interested in helping to organize a presentation of this slide show in your town or city (or a modified slide show focusing on one or two of the three topics), please contact COAT's coordinator by email <overcoat@rogers.com> or telephone, 613-231-3076.
 

"Just say NO! It ain't so!"

The underlying theme of this COAT slide show is best expressed in a quotation from Mark Twain:

(1) Canada stood up to Bush and refused to join the illegal U.S. war in Iraq!

• Just say NO! It just ain't so!        This COAT slide show details fifteen important ways in which Canada has aided and abetted the illegal U.S. war/occupation of Iraq!  Although still refusing to be publicly acknowledged as part of the "Coalition of the Willing," Canada has contributed to this U.S. war in more ways than probably any other country.  And, Canada is still very deeply involved. It's time to expose the myth and stop Canadian involvement in the Iraq war.  (Click here to jump to the beginning of this section of the slideshow.)

(2) Canada is fighting for peace and democracy in Afghanistan!

• Just say NO! It just ain't so!          On the contrary, Canada has been an integral part of protecting and legitimizing the scandalously violent, U.S.-led regime change that replaced one set of brutal, fundamentalist warlords, terrorists and drug barons (the Taliban) with another (the Northern Alliance)!  Although our man in Kabul, President Karzai, has consistently appointed notorious warlords to his highest Cabinet positions, Canada has helped at every step along the way to successfully cloak this repressive and corrupt government with the phoney trappings of democracy. This thin cloak is a facade, time to pull it away and show that the emperor has no clothes. (Click here to jump to the beginning of this section of the slideshow.)

(3) Canada gave a big "NO" to joining the U.S. "Missile Defense" program!

• Just say NO! It just ain't so!          For many years, the Canadian government has given billions to scientists and corporations that have played crucial roles in the creation, design, research, development, testing, maintenance, operation and deployment of numerous important BMD weapons systems! And, through NATO, Canadian military forces have been preparing to take part in "missile defence" operations during aggressive wars in the not-too-distant future. (Click here to jump to the beginning of this section of the slideshow.)

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