Harper takes shot at opposition over torture allegations

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PORT OF SPAIN–Prime Minister Stephen Harper took a partisan shot at his opposition critics while touring the HMCS Quebec in Trinidad-Tobago Sunday.

The Canadian ship and navy officers are helping with security for the Commonwealth summit. Harper, in brief comments to the Canadians, was addressing allegations that Canadian civilian and military leaders ignored warnings of a risk of torture in Afghan prisons.

"Let me just say this: living as we do, in a time when some in the political arena do not hesitate before throwing the most serious of allegations at our men and women in uniform, based on the most flimsy of evidence, remember that Canadians from coast to coast to coast are proud of you and stand behind you, and I am proud of you, and I stand beside you."

In recent days, Harper and his ministers have framed the controversy as an attack on the military by the opposition, as today's comments from the Prime Minister appeared to indicate. Opposition politicians say that they are in fact standing up for Canadian soldiers in the face of incompetent or unclear handling of torture allegations by the Conservative government.

http://www.thestar.com/news/canada/article/732320--harper-takes-shot-at-opposition-over-torture-allegations?bn=1

Jump on this. Push him back. Push him back.

The New Canadian Government created an environment whereby we put our military under the wrong rules and direction.

Hit back with all force,

Encourage the military to come forward with their stories.

It has taken 3 1/2 years to build what they have constructed.
Now the evidence is out there.