A majority of Canadians believe that Alberta Redneck Stephen Harper is lying
Robert Peffers
homophobic, anti-abortion, anti-gay
rights, anti-women's right, anti-immigrant, anti-bilingual, anti-
multicultural, anti-Quebec, Americanized,
Republicanized, Redneck, trailer trash, pick up truck driving, Bible
thumping, gun loving, inbred and backwards Alberta is the ONLY
province in Canada which sides with the American Republican-style
Conservatives!!!.
FUCK REDNECK ALBERTA!!!
-Robert James (Auld Bob) Peffers
Tories not believed in Afghan torture case: Poll
Joan Bryden
THE CANADIAN PRESS
Published On Wed Nov 25
OTTAWA – Canadians aren't buying the Harper government's assertion
that there's no credible evidence Afghan detainees were tortured, a
new poll suggests.
Indeed, The Canadian Press Harris-Decima survey indicates Canadians
are twice as likely to believe whistleblower Richard Colvin's claim
that all prisoners handed over by Canadian soldiers to Afghan
authorities were likely abused and that government officials were well
aware of the problem.
The poll findings come just as the government is mounting a major
counter-offensive to rebut the explosive testimony of Colvin, the
former No. 2 at the Canadian embassy in Kabul and now an intelligence
officer at the embassy in Washington.
Rick Hillier, the former chief of defence staff, and several other top
military officials are scheduled to testify later today at a Commons
committee that is investigating the torture claims.
Hillier has already said there was always concern about the treatment
of prisoners transferred to Afghan prisons but that he doesn't
remember the kind of "smoking gun" warnings Colvin says he repeatedly
issued.
Hillier has his work cut out for him to convince Canadians, the poll
suggests.
Fifty-one per cent of respondents said they believe Colvin's testimony
to the committee last week.
In stark contrast, only 25 per cent said they believe the government's
contention that the diplomat's claims are flimsy and not credible.
A majority in all regions – except Alberta where 41 per cent believed
Colvin and 35 per cent the government – sided with the whistleblower.
Those who identified themselves as supporters of Prime Minister
Stephen Harper's Conservatives were most inclined to give the
government the benefit of the doubt. But even they were almost evenly
split, with 40 per cent buying the government's take on the issue and
34 per cent buying Colvin's.
Moreover, fully 70 per cent said it's unacceptable that Canadian
forces would hand over prisoners if it's likely they'll be tortured.
No less than 60 per cent in any region and even a majority of
Conservative supporters subscribed to this view.
Harris-Decima chairman Allan Gregg said the results suggest the
government's initial strategy of attacking Colvin's credibility has
backfired badly.
"You don't need to be a rocket scientist or a pollster to know that
there's something unseemly about taking an allegation that appears to
be heartfelt and twisting it around and throwing it back in someone
else's face," Gregg said in an interview.
He said the government would've been better advised to take Colvin's
allegations "under advisement" rather than vilifying him as "a nutbar
or a rogue kind of dupe of the Taliban."
Gregg said Canadians' deep misgivings about the mission in
Afghanistan, combined with their underlying belief that Canada is a
peaceful country that should never condone torture, likely predisposes
them to believe Colvin.
"We recognize that we may never be a military power or an economic
power but we like to see ourselves as a moral power. The notion that
somehow we might be knowingly giving up detainees for potential
torture flies directly in the face of that sensibility."
The government seems to have softened its tone somewhat this week,
acknowledging that it has halted prisoner transfers on several
occasions and altered its policy on such transfers in 2007, partly
based on Colvin's advice.
Harper promised Tuesday to release all "legally available" documents
related to the matter. In his first public comments on the
controversy, Harper referred to Colvin's allegations as one person's
opinion.
The government is going all out to rebut Colvin's claims.
In addition to Hillier, the Commons committee was to hear Wednesday
from Maj.-Gen. David Fraser, who led troops on the ground in Kandahar,
and Lt.-Gen. Michel Gauthier, who was responsible for overseas
deployment in 2006.
David Mulroney, a former senior adviser to Harper on Afghanistan and
now Canada's ambassador to China, wants to appear before the committee
on Thursday to "set the record straight." He has already denied in
writing Colvin's claim that he was told by superiors to stop issuing
written reports on possible torture of detainees.
Opposition parties are threatening to delay Mulroney's testimony until
they've had a chance to pore over all the relevant documents. They're
suspicious that whatever the government releases will be highly
censored.
http://www.thestar.com/news/canada/article/730566--tories-not-believed-in-afghan-torture-case-poll
Duncan Patton a Campbell
> FUCK REDNECK ALBERTA!!!
>
> -Robert James (Auld Bob) Peffers
>
Why do you keep lying about where Harper is from?
Too close to home, Whitebread?
Dhu
--
Duncan Patton a Campbell is Dhu
jimjames5417
It is really aggravating to have an senile anti-white racist
continually attacking the most honest Prime Minister we have had in a
long time!! It is really funny to have someone of his ilk attacking
others about their being racist!
Orion
wrote:
> On Tue, 01 Dec 2009 17:06:24 -0800, Robert Peffers wrote:
> > FUCK REDNECK ALBERTA!!!
>
> > -Robert James (Auld Bob) Peffers
>
> Why do you keep lying about where Harper is from?
>
> Too close to home, Whitebread?
For the same reason that he keeps lying about 'Harper's illegal war'
and cutting/pasting stuff written by other people...he's a moron.
Duncan Patton a Campbell
If there's anything to be said about "Harper's War" it is that it is
Eminently Legal. Immoral, unprofitable and berift of good reason,
yes, but quite *legal*.
Orion
wrote:
> On Thu, 03 Dec 2009 12:35:03 -0800, Orion wrote:
> > On Dec 2, 4:27 am, Duncan Patton a Campbell <campb...@neotext.ca> wrote:
> >> On Tue, 01 Dec 2009 17:06:24 -0800, Robert Peffers wrote:
> >> > FUCK REDNECK ALBERTA!!!
>
> >> > -Robert James (Auld Bob) Peffers
>
> >> Why do you keep lying about where Harper is from?
>
> >> Too close to home, Whitebread?
>
> > For the same reason that he keeps lying about 'Harper's illegal war'
> > and cutting/pasting stuff written by other people...he's a moron.
>
> If there's anything to be said about "Harper's War" it is that it is
> Eminently Legal. Immoral, unprofitable and berift of good reason,
> yes, but quite *legal*.
But technically not "Harper's War" anyway, since Jean Chretien put
us there in the first place and Paul Martin switched us from a
'peacekeeping' role to a combat one...
Duncan Patton a Campbell
Both of them were sellouts. Harpo was at least bought and paid for
from the get-go.