Ignatieff - The New Tarsands baby & Warmongering Emperialist

Make no mistake, Liberal Leader Michael Ignatieff is doing a complete makeover of the Liberal Party of Canada.

It's out with the Green Shift and in with Dirty oil.
Ignatieff is the oilsands very own new and improved spokes child ~ "Tar Baby."

It's in with extending "the war on terror" in Afghanistan and NOT out of Afghanistan in 2011.

It's well-known in wider intellectual circles that Ignatieff made two sharp breaks with the mainstream left,

first in Britain over Thatcherism and the miners’ strike, then in America over 9/11, Iraq and the war on terror.

In reference to Ignatieff's support of USA invasion of Iraq

His kind of liberalism looked compromised by his defence of torture, his talk of “lesser evils.” According to Judt, he was one of “Bush’s useful idiots.” The ideals that drove his writing from the early 1990s took a terrible beating.

Talking about compromises Ignatieff reveals his "warmongering American imperialism" and shift to "neocon lite".

But what happens when such ideals clash with the hard realities of politics, when you have to make decisions about Iraq or Afghanistan, or torture, which clash with your principles. “There are honourable compromises and there are dishonourable ones and you have to know the difference.” Pause. “There are some issues where no compromise is possible.” Such as? “Afghanistan. We have to sustain and keep the mission there going. You do those things with the utmost seriousness. You owe your fellow-citizens the truth.”

Well not so truthful. Ignatieff has not come out and told Canadians the "new" Liberal Party of Canada "position" to extend the Canada's war effort in Afghanistan beyond 2011. He only whisper's those sweet meranderings quietly to others.

So let's recap, Ignatieff is for "dirty oil" and continued "empiral warmongering". Ignatieff split with left liberals a long time ago and was more comfortable and supportive of neoliberalism associated with "Thatcherism" and "Bushism".

No wonder the Liberals formed a coalition with the Conservatives - under Iggy remaking the Liberal Party of Canada into "liberalism" he is at more in home with" as their "new saviour" is on the RIGHT SHIFT & NEOCON LITE.