Why are Canadian Conservatives covering for Obama in Libya?

Canadian Louise Arbour was from 2004 to 2008 UN High Commissioner for Human Rights and a former chief prosecutor of the International Criminal Tribunals for the former Yugoslavia and Rawanda.

Canadian Louise Frechette was until 2005 UN Deputy Secretary-General for eight years.

The United States of America has troops. Canada has “Peace Keepers”.

Former Liberal Canadian Prime Minister Lester Pearson, while he was President of the UN General Assembly in 1957, proposed the concept of UN Peacekeeping Forces.

Former Canadian Ambassador to the United Nations and President of the United Nations Security Council George Ignatieff, is the father of current day Canadian Liberal Leader Michael Ignatieff.

In fact, pull out a file from almost any UN portfolio, and you will find Canadian names with big titles.

So it should come as no surprise to any that Canada is in Drudge headlines “Canada Takes Charge on Libya” today.

According to Yahoo News, A Canadian general will take over command of the NATO mission on Libya”.

“Canadian Defense Minister Peter MacKay said Friday that Lt. General Charles Bouchard has been designated to lead the alliance’s military campaign in Libya. (Yahoo News, March 25, 2011). “Bouchard is stationed in Naples, Italy, at the Allied Joint Force Command.

“Bouchard’s recent job was deputy commander of NORAD, reporting to an American general.

“He will be commander of the NATO operations, yet to be fully defined NATO operations,” MacKay said.

Looks like President Barack Obama, who has yet to explain to Americans, what America is doing in Libya, got cover from Canada.

MacKay’s statement came only hours before the Prime Minister Stephen Harper two-time minority government fell.

Until the Libya flyover, the last military statements from MacKay and Harper were about withdrawing the 2,500 Canadian troops from Afghanistan on a deadline of July, 2011.

In May, Parliament passed a resolution that Canada would continue until July 2011 its military presence in the volatile southern province of Kandahar, where most of Canada's roughly 2,500 troops in Afghanistan are based.

In response to public requests from Secretary of State Hillary Clinton that Canadian military forces stay on in Afghanistan after 2011, Prime Minister Stephen Harper reportedly told Clinton that by then the Canadian presence would be a civilian mission focused on aid and reconstruction.

As Rush Limbaugh stated on his radio show today, many people don’t know the origination of NATO. “Some have forgotten and some are too young”, Limbaugh said.

"North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) is a military alliance consisting of the United States, Canada, and 14 other Western countries [since this publication, 5 other countries have joined NATO, making 19 member states in all: see links below.] The 14 countries are Belgium, Denmark, France, Germany, Greece, Iceland, Italy, Luxembourg, the Netherlands, Norway, Portugal, Spain, Turkey, and the United Kingdom. Formed in 1949, NATO was set up largely to discourage an attack by the Soviet Union on the non-Communist nations of Western Europe. After World War II ended in 1945, an intense rivalry had developed between Communist countries, led by the Soviet Union, and non-Communist nations, led by the United States. This rivalry became known as the Cold War. In 1955, the Soviet Union and Communist nations of Eastern Europe formed their own military alliance to oppose NATO. The Soviet-led alliance was called the Warsaw Pact. NATO was established not only to discourage Communist aggression but also to keep the peace among former enemies in Western Europe. In World War II, for example, Italy and Germany had fought most of the other countries that later became NATO members. In forming NATO, each member country agreed to treat an attack on any other member as an attack on itself. Militarily, the United States was--and still is--the alliance's most powerful member, in part because of its large supply of nuclear weapons. (Source)

“Canada takes charge on Libya?”

Something’s off here. And the off is sporting a big red maple leaf.