- Stephen Harper and the Con's in Denial - Again

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Travers: Harper uses troops as political shield,
Mar 18 2010
http://www.thestar.com/news/canada/stephenharper/article/781495--travers-harper-uses-troops-as-political-shield#comments

"Harper answered by again using soldiers as a shield. There's no evidence, he said for the umpteenth time, that Canadians did anything wrong."

The question is "Is there evidence that Harper, MacKay and the other Cons did anything wrong". That's why we need the Inquiry.

Travers is pointing out that Harper is trying to shift the focus of the blame from himself and his government to our men and women in uniform in the Afghan Detainee Transfer scandal. Not accepting responsibility when things go wrong is a very well used strategy of Harper and the Con's. Also, it is bizarre that Harper would make such great efforts to suppress the Afghan Detainee documents and information then say there is no evidence - Harper, Release the Documents then there will be evidence.

It seems to me that anyone who strongly supports the military would demand an Inquiry in order to place the blame where it ought to lie.

It is not the Civil service. It is not our men and women in uniform. It is not the foreign service. And it is not anyone else.

It is Stephen Harper, Peter MacKay, Gordon O'Connor, John Baird, Laurie Hawn and all the Con government that are in question, and the source of all the mistrust. It is they for whom the issue is whether they have respected Canada's "international obligations at all times." Not anyone else.

It is my understanding that Stephen Harper and the Con's upped Canada's involvement in Afghanistan to an active combat role and did it almost immediately after getting into power in Jan.'06. (One would think that the Media would, as Stephen Harper himself has put it, shed light on this dark corner.)

Let have a full and open public Judicial Inquiry into the Afghan Detainee Transfers and ensuing cover-up and see if there is any evidence if Stephen Harper and the Con government did anything wrong.

Lloyd MacILquham cicblog.com/comments.html