Saturday, May 15, 2010

RE: Canada: The uncensored Afghan Torture Documents. The Liberals Have Sabotaged Parliament

The article can be read here

You have to love when someone who knows nothing about a situation claims said situation is a grave attack on Democracy, and further lays specific blame at the feet of the leader of a party. Well, I don't love it, in fact it drives me up the wall.

Writer Murray Dobbin grossly marginalizes what constitutes a breach of national security in his statement: "if there are 10 pages out of the 40,000 in question that have anything to do with genuine national security I will eat all of them". The very fact that the documents tell a story about how we detain prisoners, likely includes vast amounts of data regarding transport of prisoners, process for transfers, locations, travel times, leaders within the Afghan military who are in charge of certain processes, leaders within the Canadian military who are in charge of these processes, etc...etc. All of this information would be VERY useful to the Taliban, and easily accounts for hundreds, if not thousands of pages worth of content. If my suggestion is true, I'd love to sit and watch Murray eat these pages along with his foot as he finally decides to shut his mouth. The truth is that when you live in a nation of peace, where the extent of adversity in your day is trying to determine how you can best badmouth the ruling party - you obviously haven't spent enough time trying to think like the ennemy. Almost any data, is useful data.

With regards to parliament, MPs show time and time again that they lack sensitivity to the consequences of their actions in order to play politics. It's disgraceful, but that's democracy. I'm quite sure Murray would be one of these people, he'd likely leak sensitive information having NO idea of the ramifications of doing so because his only intent is disgracing the Conservatives.
We're trying to keep our troops alive. Murray, you'd obviously rather endanger their lives in order to fulfill your dream of what constitutes democracy. You are a disgrace to Canada, and you should be lumped in with Splitting the sky for a public flogging.