Now ain`t that just like our American counterparts....first deny abuses, then when the masses doze off, gradually start admitting to their evil deeds? lol
CBC News - Canada - General changes story on Taliban suspect
Typical idiocy.
Canada did NOT allow torture, as is clear to anyone with the IQ and/or the ability to read.
Canadian troops turned over a detainee to the Afghan National Police.....when it became obvious he was being abused, Canadian soldiers reclaimed him from the ANP......not the easiest thing to do in their country, when they are your allies.
Canadian behaviour in this matter was beyond reproach.......until the ****ing politicians (on BOTH sides) got ahold of it.
Politics sickens me sometimes.
I see Mr Mckay may be asked to do the honourable thing, fat chance of that happening.
Inaction is just as effective as action in our pseudo political environment, you know my position by now anyway, even if we conduct another shell game we will elect an Israeli pea in every case.
Not really when you take into consideration that Israel quite freely says the same thing. Certainly if America endures such screening then so does their tiny neighbor to the north.
(in part)
"Every appointee to the American government must endure a thorough background check by the American Jewish community.
In the case of Obama's government in particular, every criticism against Israel made by a potential government appointee has become a catalyst for debate about whether appointing "another leftist" offers proof that Obama does not truly support Israel. "
American Jews eye Obama's 'anti-Israel' appointees - Haaretz - Israel News
We would torture our own citizens if it could be labeled a 'matter of National security'. Same as 'looters' can be shot without trial once Martial Law has been declared. Almost a paradox in that Martial Law would be called well after the looting started.
So? Canadian cops have been known to thump around the odd "bad guy" here too. Tempers flare, shyte happens....
Inaction is just as effective as action in our pseudo political environment, you know my position by now anyway, even if we conduct another shell game we will elect an Israeli pea in every case.
Now ain`t that just like our American counterparts....first deny abuses till their blue in the face, then when the masses doze off, gradually start admitting to their evil deeds? lol
CBC News - Canada - General changes story on Taliban suspect
Gee Goober, when I used those same words to describe Israel you got all upset and called it propaganda. Does that make you a two-faced slithering snake? Those are the ones the US trained in the war against the USSR
A Life Revealed - National Geographic Magazine
From the article:
"It is the ongoing tragedy of Afghanistan. Invasion. Resistance. Invasion. Will it ever end? 'Each change of government brings hope," said Yusufzai. "Each time, the Afghan people have found themselves betrayed by their leaders and by outsiders professing to be their friends and saviors.'"
Brother Spade
I agree - If we leave it will come back to haunt us one way or another - this is a 20 or 30 years assistance program - civil and military - and it can succeed - many lives will be lost but if the West leaves then NATO is finished - along with Pakistan and we can then look forward to nukes going off in places that will cause massive US and European retaliation - No choice but to tough it out - clean out the corruption -
Good thing this place is as high as you will rise in power.
What's your point?
What's Israel got to do with a Cdn General admitting Afghani detainees wre handed to Afghani police or armed forces?
see post #6 where the point was made, we have signed security agreements with known torturers and known war criminals
DB
Get out into the world of reality - Afghanistan has not had one branch of effective and honest Govt for decades - War is not clean - Yet you try to belive it should be and it is not.
Add in the tribal balances that must be part of the Govt - the power brokers tha could undermine the Govt, blood fueds and then the Talban - what do you expect - tell me.
Goober dearest, who do you think you are addressing in that tone eh? I am in the world goober you on the other hand exist in a myth. Could the Afghan problem with effective representative government possibly be associated with the occupation forces of those same decades do you suppose? I ask you when has effective indiginous government ever been conducted while that same nation was occupied by foriegn troops engaged in wholesale warfare on that same indiginous population?
If you can't offer better questions than your latest drivel how will you ever expect to be rewarded in your efforts to subvert the true humane forces now aligned against you. War is not clean? No kiddin einstien.
You cannot defeat an insurgency. There aren't enough men in NATO even if all the nations were convinced.
Why not take up the challenge i offered to snake boy - both of you could collaborate and possible make a sentence that uses more the 2 syllable words.