Canada’s Cowardice

That Canadian government doesn’t mess around: From a principled - or at least, objective - stance to sniveling cowards in two days!

It goes like this:

1. Canada puts U.S., Israel on Torture Watchlist - An official Canadian government document has put both the United States and Israel on a watch list of countries where prisoners run the risk of being tortured, CTV television reported on Thursday. 01/18/08 - Reuters

2. Canada takes close allies U.S., Israel off torture watchlist -Canada’s foreign ministry, responding to pressure from close allies, said on Saturday it would remove the United States and Israel from a watch list of countries where prisoners risk being tortured. - 01/19/08 - Haaretz

3. Canada to rewrite ‘torture’ manual - Amnesty International has criticised a decision by Canada to rewrite a training manual that put the US and Israel on a list of nations where prisoners risk being tortured. - 01/20/08 - Al Jazeera

Guess what? Canadian cowardice or not: Israel and the United States torture. They are very much part of the torture club that includes: Afghanistan, China, Egypt, Iran, Saudi Arabia, Mexico and Syria.

Better luck next time Canada at behaving like an actual independent nation.

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