Comments on: ‘Vietnam War architect’ McNamara dies http://www.p2pnet.net/story/24591 p2pnet.net - reader powered Mon, 23 Nov 2009 00:08:27 -0600 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.4 hourly 1 By: Reader's Write http://www.p2pnet.net/story/24591/comment-page-1#comment-978121 Reader's Write Mon, 06 Jul 2009 20:27:57 +0000 http://www.p2pnet.net/?p=24591#comment-978121 Although the Vietnam-era Canadian government was sympathetic to the US military deserters/resisters, the same has not been true regarding the Iraq war. Now it seems the Harper government is trying to rewrite history. "OTTAWA - The Harper government is denying claims that it stripped a section on Vietnam from a federal website to boost its case for deporting Iraq war resisters. Text on how both draft dodgers and resisters of the Vietnam War were ultimately allowed to stay in Canada suddenly vanished from the Citizenship and Immigration site earlier this year." http://www.metronews.ca/ottawa/canada/article/256552--federal-website-changes-undermine-iraq-resisters-critics Although the Vietnam-era Canadian government was sympathetic to the US military deserters/resisters, the same has not been true regarding the Iraq war. Now it seems the Harper government is trying to rewrite history.

“OTTAWA – The Harper government is denying claims that it stripped a section on Vietnam from a federal website to boost its case for deporting Iraq war resisters.

Text on how both draft dodgers and resisters of the Vietnam War were ultimately allowed to stay in Canada suddenly vanished from the Citizenship and Immigration site earlier this year.”

http://www.metronews.ca/ottawa/canada/article/256552–federal-website-changes-undermine-iraq-resisters-critics

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