Neocon Harper caught plagiarizing again

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Not only do neocons share the same philosophies, they also speak the same words:

Mark Brennae, Canwest News Service
Published: Friday, October 03, 2008

The Liberal party for the second time in a week are accusing Prime Minister Stephen Harper of plagiarizing, at least in part, a speech delivered by another politician. On Friday, the Liberals released a video that appears to show Harper parroting parts of a 2003 address given two months earlier by Mike Harris, who at the time was premier of Ontario....

http://www.canada.com/topics/news/f....html?id=cd163148-73a2-4dcd-9440-c3ed0b5363fd

This follows the previous revelation that Harper's 2003 speech in support of the Iraq war was nearly word for word the same as a speech given two days earlier by Australian neocon PM John Howard.

TORONTO - A transcript provided by the Liberal party highlighting similarities between speeches delivered by former Australian prime minister John Howard on March 18, 2003, and one by Canadian Prime Minister Stephen Harper two days later as Opposition leader in the House of Commons:

Howard: In 1991, the world judged that the Iraqi regime was a dangerous aggressor. In the interests of world peace and regional security, the community of nations required Iraq to surrender its offensive arsenal, its chemical and biological weapons, and abandon its nuclear weapons program. Iraq agreed to comply.

Harper: In 1991, after the invasion of Kuwait, the world judged the Iraqi regime to be a dangerous aggressor. In the interests of world peace and regional security, the community of nations expelled Iraq from Kuwait; required Iraq to surrender its offensive arsenal, its chemical and biological weapons; and to abandon its nuclear weapons program. Iraq agreed to comply with these demands as an enormous and victorious force of allied troops and personnel, not just American and British, but Canadians as well stood ready to invade.
http://www.canadaeast.com/election/article/432657

The difference was Harper was only an opposition leader and Howard was PM with a majority like the one Harper is about to get. As a result Australia went into Iraq and while Canada didn't.


Also Harper now admits sending Canadians troops to Iraq would have been a mistake:

Iraq war a mistake, Harper admits
1 day ago

OTTAWA — Stephen Harper admitted Thursday that the U.S.-led invasion of Iraq was a mistake - one that Canadian troops would have been plunged into had he been prime minister in 2003.

The grudging admission came during the second televised leaders debate as the five leaders discussed the Canadian mission in Afghanistan.

Bloc Quebecois Leader Gilles Duceppe needled Harper about the embarrassing revelation that whole sections of a speech about the Iraq war, delivered by Harper as opposition leader in 2003, were lifted almost word for word from a speech delivered two days earlier by Australia's prime minister at the time, John Howard.

A Conservative speechwriter resigned Tuesday after taking the blame for plagiarizing Howard's speech.

Duceppe said the Afghan mission has proved longer and more dangerous than anticipated because U.S. President George W. Bush diverted American troops to Iraq.

"If the situation is so tough in Afghanistan, certainly a large part of that is because of the error made by George Bush by going in Iraq," he said to Harper.

"Do you realize today that you were making a huge error by supporting Bush and Australia ... and would you make the same decision today as you were proposing Canada to do in 2003?"

The prime minister initially tried to dodge the question.

"I've made it very clear Canada is not going to Iraq. Obviously you know the answer to that question," he said.

But Duceppe continued to badger him as Harper tried to steer the discussion back to Afghanistan: "This is not the question I asked. . . I want to hear it. Do you admit it was an error of George Bush and you made the same error?"

Harper finally answered: "It was absolutely an error. It's obviously clear the evaluation of weapons of mass destruction proved not to be correct. That's absolutely true and that's why we're not sending anybody to Iraq."

Green Leader Elizabeth May shot back: "We're only not sending anyone to Iraq because you weren't prime minister at the time."...

http://canadianpress.google.com/article/ALeqM5hApa9Z2Czbrt3zjYP85qnvWxBMDw

Electing a Harper majority would also be an error.