Squint­ing pink-facedly into the future.

Before he was fired from the Harper cam­paign for cir­cu­lat­ing a phở­to­graph falsely claim­ing to show Lib­eral leader Michael Ignati­eff pos­ing in com­bat fatigues with US sol­diers in Iraq, Tory strate­gist and cul­ture war­rior Patrick Mut­tart obtained sev­eral other images of Ignati­eff closely involved with other unpop­u­lar wars, which URNews has obtained. These ones — we are assured by Mr. Mut­tart — have not been doc­tored in any way.

As a pub­lic ser­vice, the URNews polit­i­cal team has com­piled cap­sule sum­maries of the major party lead­ers in terms the Aver­age Cana­dian can understand.