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Posted by: STONERS 1 year, 11 months agoA training manual for Canadian diplomats lists the United States as a country where prisoners risk torture and abuse, citing interrogation techniques such as stripping prisoners, blindfolding and sleep deprivation.
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STONERS
Jan. 18, 2008, 9:29 p.m."The Foreign Affairs Department document, released Friday, singled out the U.S. detention center at Guantanamo Bay. It also names Israel, Afghanistan, China, Egypt, Iran, Saudi Arabia, Mexico and Syria as places where inmates could face torture."
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Spadecaller
Jan. 18, 2008, 9:52 p.m."We find it to be offensive for us to be on the same list with countries like Iran and China."
Well than knock that sh!t off!
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TheRealizer
Jan. 18, 2008, 10:03 p.m.Reports like this should make everyone reading it proud to be a United States citizen.
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TheRealizer
Jan. 18, 2008, 10:20 p.m.All of these last 65 years I had thought the U. S. was the beacon of fairness in civil liberties. Send us your poor, your huddled masses, and we will send them to Gitmo!!!!!!
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ProudBlueTexan
Jan. 19, 2008, 12:06 a.m."He said the U.S. does not authorize or condone torture. "We think it should be removed and we've made that request. We have voiced our opinion very forcefully," Wilkins said."
Hey Canada, tell 'em K.M.A.!!!
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ETproductions
Jan. 19, 2008, 1:02 a.m.What a train wreck these New Reagan Republicans have made of this once proud nation.
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nikkibabe
Jan. 19, 2008, 8:01 a.m.Welcome to the club with Saudi, Iran, Syria, Israel, Afghanistan, Mexico.
Your own CIA guy has publicly announced to CNN that he did torture one of the guys in GITMO.
So it is no more a secret or something USA can fight.
You are a torturer.
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automan909
Jan. 19, 2008, 10:25 a.m.There is nothing wrong with torture if it is done to save American lives. I am all for it under the right situation.
Gitmo is fine with me too. So is dropping a nuke or two for freedom. It worked in Japan. The war ended and many American lives were saved as a result. A lot of us would not be here today if our fathers and grandfathers had to invade the shores of Japan. It's the cost of freedom. You have to fight for it.
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TonyByron
Jan. 19, 2008, 11:22 a.m."A training manual for Canadian diplomats lists the United States as a country where prisoners risk torture and abuse, citing interrogation techniques such as stripping prisoners, blindfolding and sleep deprivation."
Yeah, maybe if we sat down with these illegal enemy combatants over tea and cookies they would tell all they know and come to love us.
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nikkibabe
Jan. 19, 2008, 12:19 p.m.Quote from "Tony Byron":
"Yeah, maybe if we sat down with these illegal enemy combatants over tea and cookies they would tell all they know and come to love us".
You cannot invade and occupy a muslim country for OIL and expect all other muslims to love you.
Your country is done with muslims. You will be in confrontation with them for decades to come.
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Candida
Jan. 19, 2008, 12:57 p.m."Canada was well aware that Omar Khadr's allegations of being tortured had a ring of truth to it. Canada has not once raised the protection of Omar Khadr when there are such serious allegations," Edney said. "What does that say to you about Canada's commitment to the rule of law and human rights? It talks on both sides of its face."
Very true. I wish the Harper government had the courage to say openly what most Canadians know anyway. Canada should speak up for the rule of law and human rights even if it means economic retaliation from the US, which it would.
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Endoscopy
Jan. 19, 2008, 1:11 p.m.Lets look at the dictionary.
torture
;noun
1. the act of inflicting excruciating pain, as punishment or revenge, as a means of getting a confession or information, or for sheer cruelty.
2. a method of inflicting such pain.
3. Often, tortures. the pain or suffering caused or undergone.
4. extreme anguish of body or mind; agony.
5. a cause of severe pain or anguish.
;verb (used with object)
6. to subject to torture.
7. to afflict with severe pain of body or mind: My back is torturing me.
8. to force or extort by torture: We'll torture the truth from his lips!
9. to twist, force, or bring into some unnatural position or form: trees tortured by storms.
10. to distort or pervert (language, meaning, etc.).
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AOL-my-crater
Jan. 19, 2008, 1:34 p.m.No problems, Canada defeated! http://news.aol.com/story/_a/canada-takes-us-an...
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SFCGuyW
Jan. 19, 2008, 1:54 p.m.Since even our own Congress, the US media & the public are overwhelmingly saying that we have been torturing prisoners - and since our President continues to deny such, even when faced with documents showing he authorized the use of such techniques. Why should we be surprised when other nations begin to take such steps in their own defense. We name other nations as torturers, terroristic, etc., despite their claims to the opposite. Are we so arrogant as to demand that only we can do such?
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Forester
Jan. 19, 2008, 2:31 p.m.Geneva Convention they should be hung or shot. As for the dropping of the atomic bomb on Japan this last year the Ministry of defense (Japan's equivalent of the dept of war) said that it saved lives on both sides; before he was forced to resign due to public outcry. I have exactly no sympathy for people who behead innocent civilians and show that on world TV to cause terror or wear bomb belts into shopping centers to kill women and children during the holidays; or even those that take prisoners of children and end up killing a number : notice one thing about all of these people they are muslims.
It is true that not all muslims are terrorist , but most of the terrorist are muslims.
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CoolBenge
Jan. 19, 2008, 3:12 p.m.I think the mistaken assumption is that American's really give a crap about what Canadians think. What are they gonna do? Boycott us. No worry. Canadian beer isn't that great and our wait people won't have to worry about not being tipped.
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slate
Jan. 19, 2008, 3:23 p.m.Put yourself in this situation, you are a mother or a father,,,,,,
Your 3 year old child has been abductedâ;¦.. the abductor has been apprehended by the policeâ;¦â;¦ your child is buried in a box in a remote area outside of town,,,,,, with 4 hours of air in the vault they are in.
The abductor refuses to say where your child is and takes much relish in seeing your grief, knowing that your child's death is just hours away and there is nothing that can be done to save your child.
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macemare
Jan. 19, 2008, 3:24 p.m.People believe what they read, and all the papers in this country are trying to hang Bush, with lies...I wonder why this country is still the only country All people want to come to...???
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canadianrancher57
Jan. 19, 2008, 3:36 p.m.I wonder why we aren't on the list, we killed a Polish fellow who got a little upset and couldn't communicate with airport officials. My honest opinion is some of this crap happens up here to, Sometimes us Canadians think that our sh*t don't stink ,I think that they could have likely added just about all countries to the list.
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TheAttacks
Jan. 19, 2008, 3:45 p.m.From the Article:
"We find it to be offensive for us to be on the same list with countries like Iran and China. Quite frankly it's absurd," U.S. Ambassador David Wilkins told The Associated Press. "For us to be on a list like that is just ridiculous."
He said the U.S. does not authorize or condone torture
My reaction: LOL.
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rwrnae
Jan. 19, 2008, 5:14 p.m.US Manual: Canada = land of Fruits and Nuts, soon to be swamped by their social welfare system when the number on welfare exceeds the number working to support them.
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slate
Jan. 19, 2008, 5:37 p.m.LOL what's the matter 51 you don't like gorgeous women?
Yeah I'm a man,,, and yes gorgeous women get my attention,,, if that offends your sensibilities, I'd refer you to the saying that involves walking and a short pierâ;¦..
Show me the priciple you are refering to,,, give me data,,, I know ya love data 51,,, let's see it,,,, let's talk about the priciple about how easy it is to get into Candada by anyone from around the world,,, how bout the priciple of harboring draft dogers from another country,,,, yeah buddy,,,,, but like I said, the place is gorgeous and so are the ladies so it can't be that bad a place to visit....
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TheRoseZone
Jan. 19, 2008, 5:40 p.m.I am very proud to be an American. What our government does to protect this country is no one's business but Americans. Let them do what they have to do. You can thank everyone involved for allowing you to sit on a computer and express your opinons, whether they are negative or not. You have the freedom to. Be thankful and if not, why are you still here?
Canadians have no problem with coming over to America for work and their country allows access to terrorist. Remember the one who got busted coming over from Canada?
Please, If terrorists took over Canada, who would they call to for help? THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA.
As an American, do you really care what other countries think about you? Do you really care what your neighbors think about you? Are you allowing other countries to dictate to you how you should feel? Look around you, yes America is not perfect, but it is alot better than other places.
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TheRoseZone
Jan. 19, 2008, 5:44 p.m.OMG, obviously some of you posters don't remember Pearl Harbor, The Cole, The US embassies, oh let us not forget 9/11. Wait, how about Americans, who were civillians getting their heads knifed off?
Do you real think that all Americans think like you?
Please, what are you going to do if they knock on your door for your head? Invite them in for tea and cookies?
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