[Denny]

I must say, I am disappointed in Condoleezza Rice. This week she admits that the U.S. government "mishandled" Maher Arar of Canada. They mistook him for a terrorist and sent him off to "rendition" in Syria, where he was locked up for a year and was tortured, rather than deport him back to his country of citizenship, Canada.

Okay, Condoleezza admits somebody goofed. But, no apologies. She has developed a superiority complex worthy of an aristocrat. And, if you're wrong, why not come clean and say you were on the wrong track and want to mend your ways? There is only one reason, and thiat is there may well be other people like Maher Arar, suffering due to poor judgment and bad policies and the U.S. administration does not want to face the consequences and the liabilities that would entail.

I thought perhaps Condie was cut above a lot of the inhuman creatures who inhabit or inhabited so many U.S government top positions, folks like Cheney and Rumsfeld and Chertof. Guess I am wrong. These folks seem to have ice water in their veins and brains only capable of calculating new ways to create mayhem.

Think I am exaggerating? Well, for starters, since Syria is so much on the outs with the U.S., why would the U.S. send a suspected terrorist to a country that is perceived to be a spawning ground for more terrorism? It wold be like sending free ammunition to your enemy.

See N.Y. Times - Condoleeza admits...

[Blacksmith]

That son of a bitch got $11,000,000 from the Canadian government. He now has a law suit against the United States government; since his case is now before the courts the Secretary of State had every right to say nothing. Don’t be so naive he’s just in it for the money.

[Blacksmith]

Double post.

[mekrob]

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('', 'D')on’t be so naive he’s just in it for the money.

[Blacksmith]

For 11 million you can shove a broomstick up my ass. Some expert. Of course your used to it.

[Plantagenet]

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('mekrob', ' ')He planned for the CIA to kidnap him.

[smiley]

I don't trust black politicians and women.

IMO anyone who is a) black or b) woman or c) both, and makes it to the top cannot be trusted.

Not that I am a racist or think that such untrustworthy creatures are particularly abundant among said groups.

It is just that (unfortunately) we live in a white-male dominated society. Since the rat race is more difficult for colored people and women, they have to be tougher and stronger than their white male competitors.

Only stronger in political terms means that you have to be a better liar, backstabber etc. etc.

So if you see someone make it to the top then you know that if necessary, they will bite someones head off, chew it and gulp it down with a bucket of thinner. And God knows perhaps they have.

[mekrob]

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('', 'A')ctually the Canadians kidnapped him.

[Plantagenet]

"Based on erroneous information provided by the Canadian Government, the U.S. arrested him and then deported him to his native Syria."


The Canadians set this poor guy up.

First the Canadians gave the US phony info about this guy and asked the U.S. to arrest him. Then the Canadians wouldn't help him and wouldn't even allow him back into Canada. The U.S. therefore returned him to Syria, his native country.

[mekrob]

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('Plantagenet', '"')Based on erroneous information provided by the Canadian Government, the U.S. arrested him and then deported him to his native Syria."


The Canadians set this poor guy up.

[Plantagenet]

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('mekrob', '')$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('Plantagenet', '"')Based on erroneous information provided by the Canadian Government, the U.S. arrested him and then deported him to his native Syria."


The Canadians set this poor guy up.

[Plantagenet]

On September 26, 2002, during a stopover in New York City en route from a family vacation in Tunisia to Montreal, Arar was detained by the United States Immigration and Naturalization Service. The INS was acting upon information supplied by the Canadian RCMP.[8] Arar was deported to Syria, the country where he was born and raised and remains a citizen. Although he was also a citizen of Canada and was travelling on a Canadian passport, Canadian officials erroneously informed the United States that he was no longer a resident of their nation. Canadian (initially) and American officials have labeled his transfer to Syria as a deportation.


So Canada told the US to arrest this guy. Canada wouldn't take him in and lied about him. He has no legal right to be in the U.S. so he is deported to his home country, Syria.

What part of Canada don't you understand?

[Kingcoal]

Wow, round one goes to Plantagenet.

[mekrob]

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('', 'I')t was the Canadians who lied to the U.S. government about this guy.

[Plantagenet]

So your defense for the Canadian RCMP sending incorrect info and asking the US to hold this guy, and the Canadian state department sending info saying they wouldn't admit him into Canada because he wasn't a resident there is that Canada wasn't lying but they were so incompetent that two separate branches of the Canadian government simultaneously made innocent "boo-boos" about the same guy?

[mekrob]

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('Plantagenet', 'S')o your defense for the Canadian RCMP sending incorrect info and asking the US to hold this guy, and the Canadian state department sending info saying they wouldn't admit him into Canada because he wasn't a resident there is that Canada wasn't lying but they made an innocent "boo-boo"?

[Plantagenet]

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('mekrob', ' ')So what's the reason now, the logical reason, that the US sent him to a terrorist supporting regime like Syria

[mekrob]

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('Plantagenet', '')$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('mekrob', ' ')So what's the reason now, the logical reason, that the US sent him to a terrorist supporting regime like Syria

[Plantagenet]

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('mekrob', 'w')hat is the reason for sending a suspected terrorist to a terrorist supporting country, in which it's likely he could just be let free to carry out attacks against the US or Israel or other nation? That doesn't make much sense.