There is no genuine issue that bin Laden was killed.
Why US Forces acted without prior authority in the territory of an ally is a genuine question -- my sense is that there was authority from Pakistan but they preferred to keep it deniable (otherwise they would have made a bigger stink than they did -- also bin Laden had local protectors who are probably powerful in their own right).
In any event, Thomas Mulcair is a bright man and one must assume he said what he said because he believes it. But why he believes it is another matter:
The Canadian Press
OTTAWA—The first burst of controversy from the next crop of MPs came not from a raw NDP rookie but from the party's experienced deputy leader who said he doesn't believe the United States has photos of Osama bin Laden's body.
Thomas Mulcair struck a conspiracy theory note Wednesday when he told CBC TV that U.S. President Barack Obama's version of the death of the terrorist mastermind is incomplete, if not untrue.
Obama said he has seen photos of bin Laden's corpse but releasing those photos would be akin to peddling gruesome trophies. Mulcair was doubtful.
"I don't think from what I've heard that those pictures exist," Mulcair said during an appearance on Power and Politics.
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Look at the demands of this group that make up supposedly 20% of the NDP:
http://www.ndpsocialists.ca/
I guess we are all learning about the NDP now.
Check out the comments at the end of the Star article. They summarize what we should all be feeling.
I'll put it this way. If the Liberals are John McCain, the NDP is Donald Trump.
This is why Canada needed a Conservative majority. The opposition parties are bush league.
I spoke with several Willowdale clients today. They were Liberals.
When they saw the prospect of a Layton led coalition they shifted their vote to Conservative. Seeing the results in Richmond Hill, and several 416 riding's, they were not alone.
To think that Mulclair would speak for the Canadian Government would be an embarrassment.
Obama is a Liar, trained in the same arts as Harper. Sheesh, the stupid.
No, this is an act of hardline diplomacy and politics. And it's clever, too.
Mulcair's working to provoke, here. That's it. The NDP is going right on the attack, and judging by the responses you've already gotten from anonymous, they've hit a nerve right away.
Question the US military on its every press release, because it has no credibility. If one's speculation is wrong, there's no harm, no foul. At the same time, it forces Harper to either rush to the US' defense, or try to ignore it, or join in on the attacks.
He could even have suggested it very well might have been a summary execution by the US military rather than a shootout as first reported.
For the NDP, it's an effort to set itself apart from the Conservatives, to show the Conservatives possibly sucking up to the US, and that the NDP would instead be moderately antagonistic, ala Chretien versus Bush, or Trudeau versus Nixon.
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