Comments on: Government Rejects La Presse Report As Taliban Propaganda http://www.matthewgood.org/2007/10/government-rejects-la-presse-report-as-taliban-propaganda/ Mon, 01 Dec 2008 16:53:03 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.6.2 By: rabbit72 http://www.matthewgood.org/2007/10/government-rejects-la-presse-report-as-taliban-propaganda/#comment-31553 rabbit72 Fri, 02 Nov 2007 00:45:15 +0000 http://www.matthewgood.org/2007/10/government-rejects-la-presse-report-as-taliban-propaganda/#comment-31553 When will it be enough? By that, I mean bad enough for someone to actually step in and DO something? What is going to take? Are they gonna wait until more innocent people (reporters, the citizens of that country, etc.), or worse yet Canadian and American soldiers being treated in the same manner to ACT?!? When did we forget that we are all human beings? When will it be enough? By that, I mean bad enough for someone to actually step in and DO something? What is going to take? Are they gonna wait until more innocent people (reporters, the citizens of that country, etc.), or worse yet Canadian and American soldiers being treated in the same manner to ACT?!?

When did we forget that we are all human beings?

]]> By: bc_boy http://www.matthewgood.org/2007/10/government-rejects-la-presse-report-as-taliban-propaganda/#comment-31222 bc_boy Tue, 30 Oct 2007 21:17:50 +0000 http://www.matthewgood.org/2007/10/government-rejects-la-presse-report-as-taliban-propaganda/#comment-31222 "The Conservative government in Ottawa responded to similar reports last spring by saying it had a new a deal to monitor detainees." I'd sure like to know what agency Canada is using to monitor the Afghan prison system. If we're depending on the local agency in Afghanistan then we're going to get the same lack of access as it's funded by the Karzai government which isn't about to reveal incriminating evidence about it's own activites. As far as I'm concerned nothing has changed, there was a story in the Globe & Mail in September about how 50 captives Canada has turned over recently to Afghan authorities have gone missing. In that kind of environment it usually means dead, not misplaced. “The Conservative government in Ottawa responded to similar reports last spring by saying it had a new a deal to monitor detainees.”

I’d sure like to know what agency Canada is using to monitor the Afghan prison system. If we’re depending on the local agency in Afghanistan then we’re going to get the same lack of access as it’s funded by the Karzai government which isn’t about to reveal incriminating evidence about it’s own activites.

As far as I’m concerned nothing has changed, there was a story in the Globe & Mail in September about how 50 captives Canada has turned over recently to Afghan authorities have gone missing. In that kind of environment it usually means dead, not misplaced.

]]> By: umdesch4 http://www.matthewgood.org/2007/10/government-rejects-la-presse-report-as-taliban-propaganda/#comment-31221 umdesch4 Tue, 30 Oct 2007 20:49:20 +0000 http://www.matthewgood.org/2007/10/government-rejects-la-presse-report-as-taliban-propaganda/#comment-31221 PS. On a (mostly) unrelated subject, did we all notice the new post on http://riverbendblog.blogspot.com/ a few days ago? Every time I see a new post from her, I start out with a sigh of relief that she's still alive, but get progressively closer to tears as I read the post. This latest one was no exception. PS. On a (mostly) unrelated subject, did we all notice the new post on http://riverbendblog.blogspot.com/ a few days ago? Every time I see a new post from her, I start out with a sigh of relief that she’s still alive, but get progressively closer to tears as I read the post. This latest one was no exception.

]]> By: umdesch4 http://www.matthewgood.org/2007/10/government-rejects-la-presse-report-as-taliban-propaganda/#comment-31218 umdesch4 Tue, 30 Oct 2007 20:31:48 +0000 http://www.matthewgood.org/2007/10/government-rejects-la-presse-report-as-taliban-propaganda/#comment-31218 It's odd how ever since I read the Shock Doctrine, I'm finding it applicable every single day to some news report or other. Personally, I'd be stunned to discover that these prisoners *weren't* being tortured, but regardless of my personal suspicions, saying "We do expect these kinds of allegations from the Taliban. It is their standard operating procedure to engage in these kinds of accusations" makes you sound like a blithering idiot. WTF?! It’s odd how ever since I read the Shock Doctrine, I’m finding it applicable every single day to some news report or other.

Personally, I’d be stunned to discover that these prisoners *weren’t* being tortured, but regardless of my personal suspicions, saying “We do expect these kinds of allegations from the Taliban. It is their standard operating procedure to engage in these kinds of accusations” makes you sound like a blithering idiot.

WTF?!

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