Defence Minister Gordon O'Connor showed he's right on top of the situation in Afghanistan again yesterday. Mr O'Connor said he would make a point of meeting with one Abdoul Noorzai, an Afghanistan Independent Human Rights Commission official. Mr Noorzai signed an agreement last month to monitor the condition of detainees who have been turned over to Afghan authorities. "I want to look the man in the eyes and I want to confirm that they are going to do what they say they're going to do, I just want assurance from him that he will monitor and he will inform us of any abuses." said O'Connor on Sunday. Sounds great, only one problem, Mr Noorzai didn't bother to show up. I guess he was afraid to look O'Connor in the eyes. I thought Canada was punching above its weight now and demanding respect. This total dis is only the latest in a string of embarrassing incidents for O'Connor. His meeting with Mr. Noorzai was an attempt at damage control already because it came out this week that the Red Cross was not monitoring Afghan detainees on behalf of Canada like he has been saying in the House Of Commons for months. Oops. It has also been reported this week that the family of a soldier accidentally killed in Afghanistan was kept in the dark about what happened for over 8 months. I'm not ready to put the blame for that on O'Connor yet but it did happen on his watch. Why are we handing over combatants to people we don't trust not to torture them? Oh yeah we couldn't hand them over to the US because we knew they would torture them. Why can't we hold them ourselves? Oh yeah because holding these dudes at all just might be a war crime. What a sad day it was when Paul Martin let himself get talked into this silliness by one Rick , "Decade of Darkness", Hillier. What an even sadder day it was when Micheal Ignatiaff stood up and voted with the government to extend the mission. Twenty-four other weasels did too. The saddest day of all of course would be a Harper majority. Then we could look forward to perpetual war with incompetent men like Hillier and O'Connor who obviously know nothing about the history or politics of the region leading boys off to die so they can sit at Uncle Sam's knee and play war games.
Tuesday, March 13, 2007
O'Connor wears clownshoes.
Defence Minister Gordon O'Connor showed he's right on top of the situation in Afghanistan again yesterday. Mr O'Connor said he would make a point of meeting with one Abdoul Noorzai, an Afghanistan Independent Human Rights Commission official. Mr Noorzai signed an agreement last month to monitor the condition of detainees who have been turned over to Afghan authorities. "I want to look the man in the eyes and I want to confirm that they are going to do what they say they're going to do, I just want assurance from him that he will monitor and he will inform us of any abuses." said O'Connor on Sunday. Sounds great, only one problem, Mr Noorzai didn't bother to show up. I guess he was afraid to look O'Connor in the eyes. I thought Canada was punching above its weight now and demanding respect. This total dis is only the latest in a string of embarrassing incidents for O'Connor. His meeting with Mr. Noorzai was an attempt at damage control already because it came out this week that the Red Cross was not monitoring Afghan detainees on behalf of Canada like he has been saying in the House Of Commons for months. Oops. It has also been reported this week that the family of a soldier accidentally killed in Afghanistan was kept in the dark about what happened for over 8 months. I'm not ready to put the blame for that on O'Connor yet but it did happen on his watch. Why are we handing over combatants to people we don't trust not to torture them? Oh yeah we couldn't hand them over to the US because we knew they would torture them. Why can't we hold them ourselves? Oh yeah because holding these dudes at all just might be a war crime. What a sad day it was when Paul Martin let himself get talked into this silliness by one Rick , "Decade of Darkness", Hillier. What an even sadder day it was when Micheal Ignatiaff stood up and voted with the government to extend the mission. Twenty-four other weasels did too. The saddest day of all of course would be a Harper majority. Then we could look forward to perpetual war with incompetent men like Hillier and O'Connor who obviously know nothing about the history or politics of the region leading boys off to die so they can sit at Uncle Sam's knee and play war games.
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