[NYTr] Canadian Military Wrote Afghan Prez's Speecj to Cdn Parliament!

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[More NATO War Lies Coming Unraveled - Canadian military wrote Afghan
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The Canadian Press via CBC News - Sep 25, 2007
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Canadian military wrote Afghan president's speech: NDP

The NDP said Tuesday it has documents that show the Canadian military
effectively wrote Afghan President Hamid Karzai's speech to Parliament
last year.

NDP MP Dawn Black says she has documents that indicate Afghan President
Hamid Karzai's speech to Parliament last year was an 'elaborately
staged political stunt.'NDP MP Dawn Black says she has documents that
indicate Afghan President Hamid Karzai's speech to Parliament last year
was an 'elaborately staged political stunt.'

Black held a news conference Tuesday to release access-to-information
documents that suggest a team of military advisers prepared an initial
draft of Karzai's speech, delivered on Sept. 22, 2006

She quoted a situation report from Task Force Afghanistan as saying:
"Team prepared initial draft of President (Karzai's) address to
Parliament 22 Sep."

Black said Gen. David Fraser reports in the documents that "key
statistics, messages, themes, as well s overall structure (of the
speech) were adopted by the president in his remarks."

"What Canadians heard was not the voice of the Afghan people, but the
talking points of the Department of National Defence," Black said.

In the speech, Karzai thanked the families of soldiers killed in combat
and painted an optimistic, but not rosy picture of his country's future.

He also took direct aim at NDP Leader Jack Layton's opposition to the
war, saying those who believe the mission was weighted too heavily
toward combat and not enough toward reconstruction were wrong.

"There has been speculation about the resources that the Department of
National Defence is pouring into trying to sell this mission to the
Canadian people," Black said.

"I never thought that the Canadian military would go this far. This
raises serious concerns about the independence of the Afghan president
and origin of his recent comments to Canadian media in Kabul."

Black said she plans to call for an emergency debate on the issue in
the House of Commons when Parliament resumes next month.

She also said she will seek an investigation by the Commons defence
committee into the military's communications campaign.

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"The party's defence critic, Dawn Black, said the papers indicate
Karzai's address was an 'elaborately staged political stunt.' "