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  • Principles? What principles?

    04/16/2003 9:45:53 AM PDT · by knighthawk · 4 replies · 211+ views
    National Post ^ | April 16 2003 | Frank Harvey
    Canadians should listen very carefully to the voices of Iraqi citizens who have been celebrating on the streets of Baghdad, Basra, Kirkuk and Mosul, and then re-evaluate the "principles" Prime Minister Jean Chrétien is defending. Canada's "principled" position encompasses three core tenets: 1) no support for regime change; 2) support for interventions that are sanctioned exclusively by multilateral consensus in the United Nations Security Council; and 3) independent control over our own foreign policy. The Chrétien Doctrine fails on all three counts. A principled position against "regime change" in Iraq would continue to oppose that policy especially when it succeeds....