Comments on: The Colvin Affair: Who knew what when? (1)

By: MaryT

MaryT — Tue, 24 Nov 2009 07:45:39 +0000

As a person who gets the Angus online poll, for the past several weeks I have suggested a poll question. As a Canadian do you care that there was possible torture of afghan prisoners, by afghan guards.
As a Canadian would you prefer these prisoners be released, to plant bombs etc that kill our troops.
So far, it hasn’t made a poll. I predict it would be over 80% that don’t care.

By: beentheredonethat

beentheredonethat — Mon, 23 Nov 2009 15:59:55 +0000

Sounds like the LSM has become tired of beating that tired old horse H1N1. More Canadians continue to die from the common flue than the media would have us believe by their hype is the 21st century version of the bubonic plague. Subscriptions and advertising revenues are still tanking so it’s time to resurrect a new headline screaming boogyman to beat the Conservatives over the head with. In a couple of weeks it’ll finally sink through the inch thick skulls of journalists that the majority of Canadians simply don’t care.

By: Undecided Voter

Undecided Voter — Mon, 23 Nov 2009 14:42:44 +0000

Sounds like another political case of ‘he said, she said’

By: Jema54

Jema54 — Mon, 23 Nov 2009 08:22:51 +0000

Smoking tobacco is a guaranteed right for POWS, under the Geneva Convention. I say MAKE those scumbags smoke tobacco in Mr. Bloomberg’s town! Oh the Horror – store them in a public jailhouse, with their smokes, in California to await their trials.

By: ward

ward — Mon, 23 Nov 2009 05:40:19 +0000

Less funny is the fact we have smoking gun evidence on the table for 4 days that expose “climate change” as the fraud it is, and the MSM has not acknowledged it. But the latest incarnation of Karlhienz Shrieber gets coverage.

By: Mac

Mac — Mon, 23 Nov 2009 04:30:37 +0000

It’s a tempest in a teacup but the opposition are trying their best to stir it into a hurricane. Funny how the journalists who all but self-identify as Liberals are all over this but even the moderates aren’t buying it…

By: willowway

willowway — Mon, 23 Nov 2009 01:57:45 +0000

It is my understanding that Canada is not technically at war. Rather, we are taking sides and assisting one faction of what amounts to a civil war. We should get our troops out of there! Our opinion as to how and by whom that country is administered is irrelevant.
Do I believe that Canada’s troops handed over prisoners without any assurance as to the treatment they would be subjected to? Yes, they probably did.
Do I care? No. Just bring them home.

By: Cunctator

Cunctator — Sun, 22 Nov 2009 23:32:42 +0000

Colvin’s testimony sounded very scripted, as though it had been written by a speechwriter. If so, who did it for him and why? One wonders if senior officials at DFAIT, long chafing at the government’s refusal to acknowledge them as the “best and brightest”, are not somehow involved.

By: Jack

Jack — Sun, 22 Nov 2009 22:30:55 +0000

Not torture at all. What you do is stuff them into a metal tank somewhere and then play the Beatles 24/7 very loud. They will soon give up.

By: Undecided Voter

Undecided Voter — Sun, 22 Nov 2009 22:24:46 +0000

Hypocritical of the liberals saying anything about this as Ignatieff was on record in states as supporting Presidents Bush’s torture of prisoners during the Iraq Invasion.
‘Ignatieff supports Regulated Torture’
http://www.agoracosmopolitan.com/home/Frontpage/2006/11/29/01271.html

By: mike

mike — Sun, 22 Nov 2009 21:35:53 +0000

Peter: Don’t you know it is better to lose, if winning means being as brutal as your enemies. I say lets turf the Geneva conventions and let the strongest and most brutal win. The Geneva conventions are just handcuffs to the western civilized nations.
mid island mike