Khadr critics had no sympathy for tortured youth

I am not amused by the squeals of discomfort from the very people who had no sympathy for a 15year-old, in prison, injured and tortured by the vaunted “fighting forces of the U.S.” Harper’s minions all were smugly cozying up to illegal and inhumane brutality by the bullies when they held power.

Oh how they cry at being exposed for their cruelty at leaving their post in critical times. Now twisting and turning trying to avoid the heat from the letter of the law that they claim they respected, when it applied to someone else. These cons show their true nature by attempting to bait and switch the public. People who use the word terror so easily, what do you know about terror in the battlefield?

1. Trained adult soldiers in a firefight accept the danger and consequences. Honest troops do not cry about the injuries they receive in battle. They are aware of the dangers. Gamblers do not, or shouldn’t, ask for their losses to be returned: you lose, you pay.

2. Political parties that show a lack of ethics, and not a minute of responsibility, to serve their countrymen and women in trouble overseas, deserve no sympathetic hearing from me. These righteous righters fawning to American interests while ignoring the needs of Canadians can move south ASAP.

3. My sympathy is with the native underdog defending his land from invading forces. Maybe there is divine justice in that the U.S. has lost every war they started since World War Two. “Might does not make right.”

4. The “Uniters of the Right” expose their backsides in fumbling attempts to disqualify the law of the land. Two Supreme Court decisions no less! They fear the spotlight exposing their incompetence in government. These are shallow people showing shallow selfinterest.

“Begone, damned spot!” — Lady Macbeth.

Don Ryane

Lethbridge