"In the face of these terrible revelations, the federal government must now stop stalling and launch a full independent civilian inquiry into the treatment of Afghan prisoners detained by Canadian troops," said the Green Party spokesperson on international relations and global security, David Chernushenko.
Chernushenko said the government should also move immediately to:
Suspend all prisoner transfers until an effective and verifiable Prisoner Treatment and Verification Agreement has been negotiated with Afghan authorities.
Make financial reparations to torture victims and families of prisoners who have disappeared after being in Canadian custody.
Fund and maintain, in partnership with the Afghan government, a database to track the status and location of Afghan prisoners and provide timely updates on their whereabouts and condition to family members.
"Contrary to the stated beliefs of the Prime Minister, support for the Geneva Convention is not tantamount to support for the Taliban," said Ms. May. "It is not a choice between supporting fundamental human rights and supporting our troops.
"How do we protect our troops if they are taken captive when we have shown contempt for the Geneva Convention? How do we call ourselves a decent nation?"
http://www.greenparty.ca/en/releases/23.04.2007
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How soon we've forgotten what took Canada to war. It was only a few years ago that the 9/11 attacks where used as the pretext for attacking Afghanistan to "get Osama Bin Laden".<br />
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But, here's the final "nail in the coffin" proof that 9/11 was an inside job: <a href="http://stopthelie.com/the_evidence_is_in.html">http://stopthelie.com/the_evidence_is_in.html</a><br />
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The fact that the 9/11 attacks were not the job of Muslim extremists based in Afghanistan could not be any more clear.<br />
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We know that Canada never had a legitimate reason to be involved in the conquest of Afghanistan, yet according to the Greens, it wants to keep Canada bottled up in Afghanistan doing "reconstruction" which is nothing more than a feel good euphemism for the same old brutal tactics of colonialism.<br />
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As usual in Canadian politics, the parties that get all the attention end up looking like identical twins, with only minor personality quirks to tell them apart.<br />
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<a href="http://www.pbs.org/frontlineworld/stories/afghanistan604/video_index.html">http://www.pbs.org/frontlineworld/stories/afghanistan604/video_index.html</a><br />
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. . .oh wait . . .<br />
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I am simply presenting a new insight into what you refer to as 'colonialism'. After seeing that documentary, I doubt you could call anything in it 'colonialism'.
'Heartbreaking' perhaps. I doubt it would change your opinion of what Canadian Forces are doing in A'stan, but it may enhance your insight.
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Just stark naked red-tape, where help is needed.
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Because this time around Dr Steven Jones has completed his research on samples from the WTC demolitions, and his spectral analysis matches up perfectly with what a thermate reaction would produce, which proves conclusively the towers were brought down with thermate, which means the 9/11 story is a lie, which means Canada went to war based on a lie, which means Canada is in Afghanistan because the US government blew up their own towers and made up a false story about Osama Bin Laden and terrorism.<br />
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<a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Bsp3DPTmiN0">http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Bsp3DPTmiN0</a><br />
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Full presentation links:<br />
<a href="http://stopthelie.com/the_evidence_is_in.html">http://stopthelie.com/the_evidence_is_in.html</a><br />
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Where we are today leads right back to the 9/11 lie. Canada never had a legitimate reason to send in its military and shoot up Afghanistan. That's not "my view", that's a well established fact.<br />
What in the hell is the Canadian military doing in Afghanistan then? You should know me well enough by now not bother tossing bullshit in my direction.
The video is not about combat, it is about reconstruction. That is what the CF is doing in this report, and that cannot be accomplished with bombs.
The report is what we promise we will do, and what the 'brass' decides we need to do. The two are incompatible.
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What are the bombs for then? The occupation troops are carrying around guns and bombs are they not? With guns and bombs around all over the place, what's this video worth other than as a show piece of what propaganda can accomplish?
Because Day's bosses told him to put it there. When
you're a sellout, you don't have any choice but to screw
over your own kind when you're ordered to do so.
Let's buy some more tanks to help out the
reconstruction project in Afghanistan. This government
doesn't give two shits about their own citizens, they're
going to care about some strangers half way around
the world? Let's cut the crap already.
How does that Fleetwood Mac song go? "Tell me lies,
tell me sweet little lies."
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