Okay Harper, you opened the door on the weekend by taking a partisan shot at the Opposition and accusing them of maligning Canadian soldiers over the handling of detainees. You just can’t resist taking your grossly inaccurate potshots at the Opposition no matter where you are in the world can you?

I’ve been watching this furor over the handling of detainees. This isn’t the first time this issue has come up since we sent our troops into action in Southern Afghanistan. Neither time has anyone tried to even imply our troops did not treat detainees properly. They did what they had to do and turned them over to Afghan officials as the government, first the Liberal government and now the Harper Conservatives government, had negotiated with the government of Afghanistan. The Conservatives have now been in power for four years, they own this issue and should have been taking steps to solve it.

It is those agreements and how they, or if, they were enforced that is at question — not the behaviour of our troops. Quit hiding behind them when you need to be showing some leadership Harper. First your ministers try to portray the whistle blower, Richard Colvin, as a Taliban sympathizer for insisting on his unheeded warnings coming to light. When that fails to gain any traction, Pamelin Wallin tries to appeal to Canadians to stop blaming the troops when no one was. Then you give that some treads by using a photo op on a Canadian ship to try the same claim and then you had it repeated in the House of Commons.

Just how long do you think Canadians are going to put up with your lies and obsfucation?

The reality is, you and the other NATO members involved in Afghanistan have apparently dropped the ball. When this first came up three years ago, it is clear that the Canadians and every other country involved in the war in Afghanistan needed to have brought pressure to bear on the Afghan government to clean up their justice system parrallel to the work of the international troops.

We’re there at the request of their government and yes, guests in their home. However, Canadians and the other international forces are being asked to give of their blood and treasure in that same country to try to establish peace and security for the Afghan people. It is not too much to ask, no demand, of our hosts to clean up their system and stop the abuse and torture that our troops are duty bound to turn over to them.

So Harper, man up, get behind the troops and take action so they are not placed in the position of being required to turn detainees over to potential abuse. Quit playing political games while you hid behind our troops.

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