if the chinese come to invade your house and you throw a bomb and kill a soldier, would that make you a terrorist?
Hi Dave...The report from a grunt who was injured by the grenade told a different tale, his team was attempting to have them surrender, after about 45 minutes of talk the remainder of the team showed up, when they did the holdups began a a firefight. Two of the translaters were killed and this trooper lost an eye from the grenade this guy threw.
I'm going to do more digging on this, you seem to have some info I have missed, Ill get back on this.
PS. I hope you understand I was against the M.E. invasions.
A tad of background>
Khadr’s lawyers have long said he was pushed into war by his father, Ahmed Said Khadr, whose family stayed with Osama bin Laden briefly when Omar Khadr was a boy. Khadr’s Egyptian-born father was killed in 2003 when a Pakistani military helicopter shelled the house where he was staying with senior al-Qaida operatives.
After his 2015 release from prison in Alberta, Omar Khadr apologized to the families of the victims. He said he rejects violent jihad and wants a fresh start to finish his education and work in health care. He currently resides in an apartment in Edmonton, Alberta.
Dave , I get your point, he was a youngster controlled by family and others, I do understand. Victims are in the numbers my freind, especially so the young. That this man denied this payment and asked it to be given to the family of the victims clearly explains he has left the realm of the controlled.
That said, I do question the reasoning of the amount as a political move rather than sympathy and understanding for this guys hellish experience. The victims of war have allways been the commoners, innocents, with nothing to loose but their lives and limbs.
Herman Goering, a Natzi elite said this at his trial when asked how they controlled the masses into war.
“Why, of course, the people don’t want war. Why would some poor slob on a farm want to risk his life in a war when the best that he can get out of it is to come back to his farm in one piece. Naturally, the common people don’t want war; neither in Russia nor in England nor in America, nor for that matter in Germany. That is understood. But, after all, it is the leaders of the country who determine the policy and it is always a simple matter to drag the people along, whether it is a democracy or a fascist dictatorship or a Parliament or a Communist dictatorship…[/u]
Voice or no voice, the people can always be brought to the bidding of the leaders. That is easy. All you have to do is tell them they are being attacked and denounce the pacifists for lack of patriotism and exposing the country to danger. It works the same way in any country.”
– Hermann Goering (as told to Gustav Gilbert during the Nuremberg trials)
I give Herman G credit for getting to the bottom line, the leadership of any nation can create a scenario based on fear, as you know 911 was not a fluke attack pulled off by cave dwellers, the Iraq invasion was an obvious lie based on the WMD fear tactic, no need to go on is there....Innocents pay in blood fueled by the deceptions of those who profit. I clearly remain with sympathy for this mans experience and the reasoning behind it, as I do for any and all victims of the powers controlling them.
However I beleive the policy set by Canadian leadership was not entirely for this mans suffering, it was A political move as well. His case is not as rare as C. leadership may attempt to convince us, how many victims have been slaughtered, maimed, imprisoned, etc.. Just as this man was raised and nurtured by family to fight the enemy, I too was. I volunteered for enlistment and to serve in a war before coming to the realization, without profit there would be no wars. What may be in evidence is the number of suicides>
The suicide rate among veterans has surged 35 percent since 2001, driven in part by sharp increases among those who have served since 2001, according to the largest study of such suicides.
US..Phillips>Estimating the number of suicides among Vietnam veterans. - NCBI
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/2343923by DA Pollock - 1990 - Cited by 56 - Related articles
Unconfirmed reports that 50,000 or more Vietnam veterans have committed suicide give the impression that these veterans are at exceedingly high risk of ...
Victims, my freind.. David.............one and all.
