[news] Stephen Harper, Bush's Last 'Yes' Man?: Canada, Guantanamo and Yankee Poodles

[Mostly Water - "Canadian" and International alternative news feed]

By ROBERT FANTINA - July 12/13, 2008

This week Canada’s Foreign Affairs Department detailed the torture that [Omar] Khadr, a Canadian citizen, has received at the hands of the U.S. government. While it is no longer news that the U.S. tortures its prisoners, the Harper government’s response to this horrific victimization of one of its own citizens is news. Mr. Harper, when asked about the situation, demonstrated nothing but loyalty to Mr. Bush...Why has every other Western nation rescued their citizens from Guantanamo, but Mr. Harper is content to let a citizen of his nation be tortured there?  


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