Comments on: Time for an independent probe on the Afghanistan detainee transfer issue.

By: henrylow

henrylow — Fri, 18 Dec 2009 05:06:49 +0000

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By: JOAN

JOAN — Sun, 22 Nov 2009 12:49:36 +0000

I agree with Dana – I don’t have a friend or family member that could care less and so I can’t tell them just how livid I am with this Government and their bashing of Richard Colvin – Peter MacKay is disgusting – has an amazing ego saying Colvin should have approached him when he was in Kandahar and now saying he won’t lose his job for coming forward. Many of us political junkies remember his lies in 2003 – so does David Orchard. The Tory thugs along with Hillier are in fear and well they should be – quite a few prominent people who were in Afghanistan in the same time frame have come forward to back Colvin, including Peter Kent’s brother Arthur Kent. I hope you will continue to promote this story and also a full public inquiry – they would have to swear to tell the truth, a completely new concept – not so in a committee meeting. I see this bunch doing anything to squash this story and we need the media to keep it going. All three opposition parties are asking for an inquiry – that is a majority. This could be the bullet that stops any dreams of a majority for Harper and his lying cronies.

By: Scott Tribe

Scott Tribe — Thu, 19 Nov 2009 20:32:55 +0000

@Dana, We'll see.. I recall though that the Conservatives took a public opinion hit for this in 2007 when this first reared its ugly head.. and with these new allegations that are indeed explosive, I can see it doing the same thing, particularly when you have folks like Norman Spector and other media types that aren't exactly Con-hostile calling for an inquiry. That will have resonance amongst the public if the Cons. refuse to hold one.

By: Dana

Dana — Thu, 19 Nov 2009 18:52:14 +0000

Maybe there will be an inquiry and maybe there won’t but in either case there won’t be any political ramifications for the Harperites.

Good old Joe and Jane Frontporch, good stolid Canadians that they are, won’t much care.

It’s amazing that Canadians went from being proud of being a tolerant, small-l liberal society whose international aspirations included the deft wielding of soft power and peacekeeping to being a society obsessed with military operations and proud of carrying a big stick (or as big as it’s possible for a small, relatively insignificant country to carry).

Makes me think that maybe Canadians are willing to be proud of whatever the government of the day tells them to be proud of.

Dark thoughts about the placid, bourgeois, compliant Canada of the 1950′s reemerging for the 21st century.

By: roger

roger — Thu, 19 Nov 2009 18:38:21 +0000

Everybody who follows international media and human rights reporting knows that torture was systematic since 2001 in Afghanistan, and that it was taking place by Afghan AND US forces inside Afghanistan, even at Kandahar Airfield.

Read Ahmed Rashid’s latest book, Descent Into Chaos for a harrowing description of torture under US/NATO occupation.

As a result, there is no doubt that most military leaders knew about torture taking place.

There is no credibility to their claims of innocence.

Human Rights Watch, the US State Department, the Red Cross, and international media all reported on systematic torture.

With Colvin’s testimony, we now have evidence that military and cabinet officials — and their lackeys in bureaucracy — were in all likelihood covering up evidence to ‘protect’ their imperial occupation from public scrutiny.

Public inquiry and possible war crime charges need to be investigated.

By: Excited Delirium » Blog Archive » Canada Complicit in War Crimes?

Excited Delirium » Blog Archive » Canada Complicit in War Crimes? — Thu, 19 Nov 2009 17:35:48 +0000

[...] enough. I agree with Scott Tribe that we need an independent tribunal to gain an understanding of how much our local politicians knew about Afghani [...]