- - If Harper had done his job in 2006 Re Afghan Prisoner Transfers - we wouldn't be in this mess.

Redactions hamper Afghan detainee probe, Paul Koring, Dec. 01, 2009
http://www.theglobeandmail.com/news/politics/redactions-hamper-afghan-detainee-probe/article1383375/
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Paul Koring - Very good article - well written, informative and to the point.

One suggestion. Perhaps you can post pic's of some of these heavily redacted documents the G&M has so everyone can see for themself exactly what you are referring to.

The real reason for the extreme redaction, aside from a serious cover-up by Harper is, of course, the possibility of prosecution in the International Criminal Court, in The Hague, if not domestically.

These are very serious allegations and hopefully the Opposition, the media and the people of Canada will not let it ride. We have a right to know.
No one is accusing Canadians soldiers of torture.

Harper was the one who up'ed the action of our troops in Afghanistan to out and out combat when they took over in '06.

Harper had a pressing and urgent obligation to take every step to ensure it was done in a fashion that accorded to International Law. Turning a blind eye, willfully or negligently ignoring, is not only a violation of the sacred trust placed in them when Harper took the Oath of Office, it was foreseeable that it could placed our troops in the the very tenuous position of allegations of violating serious International Laws.

People in Canada can understand with this out and out fighting in Afghanistan things were happening much, much faster and made it more difficult to get a complete handle on, and sympathize for our generals and troops.

But that was all the more reason that Harper, MacKay, O'Connor and the other Con's ought to have looked into the matter thoroughly. Instead of address these real issues, and in a timely and effective fashion, as they were raised in Parliament they responded by insults, accusing anyone who sought answers of being "Taliban sympathizers", obstructing, stone-walling, distorting, refusing to act and Canada be damned.

It is reprehensible that Harper and MacKay and the other Con's would accuse the Opposition of such - have they no shame.

If they had done their job we wouldn't be in this mess and O'Connor would probably still be Minister of Defense.

When Harper accused Ignatieff, the Liberals, the NDP, the Block and anyone that would dare stand up to him on this, of "throwing the most serious of allegations at our men and women in uniform based on the most flimsy of evidence" everyone in Canada should take note, demand he retract it and demand that a Public Inquiry be held.

Given the slanderous and deceitful nature of the comment I am not all surprise that Harper would make it while outside Canada, instead of to Ignatieff's face.

When MacKay tells Michael Ignatieff, who is doing his job as leader of the Opposition as is Layton and Duceppe, to be "very wary about taking his foreign affairs advice from former NDP premiers." What exactly does he mean. Sounds like some kind of threat, while hiding behind Parliamentary privilege.

Harper waiting until he is out of the country; MacKay hiding behind Parliamentary privilege - these are the guys running our country.

Lloyd MacIlquham cicblog.com/comments.html