Mohammed received a letter from the Afghan police: "We apologise to you," the police chief wrote. "An innocent was killed by Americans." The US army declined to comment on Ismail's death or on a second fatal shooting by another prison transport at the same crossroads later that month. It also refused to comment on an incident outside Kabul when a prison patrol reportedly cleared a crowd of children by throwing a grenade into their midst. However, we have since heard that the CIA's inspector general is investigating at least eight serious incidents, including two deaths in custody, following complaints by agents about the activities of their military colleagues.
For the entire article:
http://www.guardian.co.uk/afghanistan/story/0,1284,1440836,00.html
The very second Canada joins this we lose 50 years of hard work in the eyes of the world. Tom "the traitor" D'Quino and his band of corporate thieves want to jump on board this runaway train at all costs.
We MUST stop them.
Any Canadaian politician who is for more integration/cooperation should be turnedver to the International Criminal Court for trial.This is absolute fucking garbage!
2) Anyone here actually KNOW anyone in/or anything aboot Afghanistan ???
3) Did anyone here bother to do any real investigating of their own if they DIDN'T know anything ???
4) How many here have ever actually DONE anything (other than hyper-ventilate and piss all over themselves and a web page in the process) to accomplish anything good in the world for anyone else ???
5) How many here went to either Afghanistan, or Iraq and put our actual physical persons in harms way on behalf of those we herein profess to care so much aboot ???
6) How many here sacrificed even a little bit of their monetary wealth to rebuild, and/or help either Afghanistanis, or Iraqis to recooperate and recover from the devastation they suffered after we were too gutless to risk our own personal, hypocritical necks all the while gleefully cheering THEM on to fight those "evil Americans" to the death ???
7) How many here supported anyone in doing ANYTHING significant in this world no matter WHOSE side ???
Yeah...we all know the answer to those 7 questions don't we...thank God for those good morals, and high ideals of yours...looks like we have been aboot as good "friends" to the Afghans, and the Iraqis as we have been to those poor bastard Americans that stupidly trusted us...yes, as a people we are aboot as worthless as you can get...all puff and smoke (like our national cannibis pastime) and not much else...small wonder that we are considered insignificant and irrelevant, and are ignored completely by the rest of the world. But for some reason we keep on insisting for all to hear that we are somehow better than ALL of them, and we keep holding out our petite, begging, little hands at the same time for their charity as well...go figure...national pride is nothing but a Canadian PIPE dream isn't it...someone on this site said "Cana-duh" if I remember correctly...they might have a point after reading what you phrrrreaks have posted here...
I've also never done much for the Burmese, people who are treated horribly, partly in thanks to generous canadian mining companies and the folks at Power corporation.
Likewise I've never done much for Rwandans or South Africans.
Is there somewhere on those lines that dictate that I therefore can't read or write to criticize somebody who does the opposite of nothing, who commits terrible acts of genocide? The article above is meant to serve the same purpose that many stories on here serve, and that is to provide a voice to those who have been silenced by corporate media. To show what is really going on. Do we criticize a Ukrainian writer for not covering Haiti? There are canadians in Afghanistan, which is why it's important to get this out, should the world ever turn these soldiers could be brought up on charges, typically ones more aggregious than what many a german was hung for at Nuremburg. We DON'T know enough about Afghanistan, which is why stories such as this are so important. That's what news is, and to try to insult somebody for trying to be informed by making up straw men hardly seems worth the effort. Having stories like this in fact remedies those charges you make, they make people informed, which is a requisite for being involved. By trying to slander it, you merely exacerbate the problems you've indicated.
And your own response to your seven questions will go something like: "I beak off about it on the Intarweb".
Why do you keep coming here anyway? You haven't made one single post that contributes to any discussion, and all you seem to to is denegrate your fellow countrymen as 'pot smoking liberal canuckistanis'. And who can forget your "Canada forever, Comrades" posts.
If you want to be an American, move to Jesusland already. I'll even buy you bus fare to the border.
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"If you must kill a man, it costs you nothing to be polite about it." Winston Churchill
P.S. To Caleb(?) ...wanted to inspire some free, independent thought in what appeared to be a stale old fishtank (but not as stale as I am it appears)...hoped to flip a switch and get people to question the "modern status quo" a tiny bit...and if after being presented with an alternative way of viewing the world, that does NOT include hate as it's main ingredient...everyone were to return to the chanting of their mantras in their dark vive le canada cave..well...so be it. You all are free to have an opinion as much as I am (or thought I was anyway). Didn't click on your name though...something made me a mite suspicious not being a really computer literate person...hope you didn't take offence if it meant something to you. I just wasn't sure what would happen. Not to use my age as a cop out, but I'm not as savvy to the internet and computers as you kids are (or I'm assuming you are). Once again, if I insulted you I am sorry. Not the result I had hoped for. Good luck in whatever it is that you do, so long as it's good for Canada, okay? Peace...(trying to use the lingo...hopefully I didn't butcher it too badly)...