Comments on: Canada’s Afghan Mission Continues to Raise Serious Questions About Whether we are Part of the Solution or Part of the Problem http://informedvote.ca/2009/11/20/canada%e2%80%99s-afghan-mission-continues-to-raise-serious-questions-about-whether-we-are-part-of-the-solution-or-part-of-the-problem/ Informed Vote (informedvote.ca) will keep Canadian voters informed on Canadian Politics such as Stephen Harper, Michael Ignatieff, Jack Layton, Liberals, Conservatives, NDP, Green, as well as foreign issues like the Israel palestine conflict and local issues like the CUPE strike Thu, 10 Jun 2010 19:27:56 -0400 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.6 hourly 1 By: Jim Ramphal http://informedvote.ca/2009/11/20/canada%e2%80%99s-afghan-mission-continues-to-raise-serious-questions-about-whether-we-are-part-of-the-solution-or-part-of-the-problem/comment-page-1/#comment-4018 Jim Ramphal Mon, 23 Nov 2009 15:40:45 +0000 http://informedvote.ca/?p=1643#comment-4018 Fraser Nelund; Thank you for compliment. It appears that what has been transpiring re: the treatment of prisoners in Afghanistan has been known by the Harper government for some time, and they have taken pains to ensure that these allegation were kept out of the public arena. They have raised very legitimate questions of why these policies were enacted to begin with, and why the government would work so diligently to prevent scrutiny of any wrongdoing, the answers which are now plaguing the same politicians who never expected to be required to answer them. Fraser Nelund;

Thank you for compliment. It appears that what has been transpiring re: the treatment of prisoners in Afghanistan has been known by the Harper government for some time, and they have taken pains to ensure that these allegation were kept out of the public arena. They have raised very legitimate questions of why these policies were enacted to begin with, and why the government would work so diligently to prevent scrutiny of any wrongdoing, the answers which are now plaguing the same politicians who never expected to be required to answer them.

]]> By: Fraser Nelund http://informedvote.ca/2009/11/20/canada%e2%80%99s-afghan-mission-continues-to-raise-serious-questions-about-whether-we-are-part-of-the-solution-or-part-of-the-problem/comment-page-1/#comment-4002 Fraser Nelund Sat, 21 Nov 2009 00:36:34 +0000 http://informedvote.ca/?p=1643#comment-4002 The most obvious lies on this topic come in the form of the Conservatives' waffling testimony as to how much they were aware of (check out http://www.cbc.ca/video/#/News/TV_Shows/The_National/At_Issue/ID=1337433032 acessed Nov 19 2009). Please note that when all commentators (including the most conservative; Andrew Coyne: "a government trapped in its previous stories") agree that the government has done wrong it seems likely that they have done wrong. When all agree that the government lies then, probably, the government lies. Good summary Jim Ramphal. The most obvious lies on this topic come in the form of the Conservatives’ waffling testimony as to how much they were aware of (check out http://www.cbc.ca/video/#/News/TV_Shows/The_National/At_Issue/ID=1337433032 acessed Nov 19 2009). Please note that when all commentators (including the most conservative; Andrew Coyne: “a government trapped in its previous stories”) agree that the government has done wrong it seems likely that they have done wrong. When all agree that the government lies then, probably, the government lies.

Good summary Jim Ramphal.

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