POSTED RESPONSE TO A COLUMN BY MARGARET WENTE IN TORONTO'S GLOBE AND MAIL
"Omar Khadr is a lucky young man. He is lucky to be entitled to Western justice..."
Even for Margaret Wente, this is perhaps a new low.
Lucky young man?
Ideologue parents push him into war at fifteen?
Shot twice, in the back, by Americans?
Taken to Guantanamo against all international conventions?
His first years in isolation without any contact or representation?
Tortured many times?
Part of his torture consisted of making him sit in uncomfortable positions with raw wounds?
Being forced to appear before a kangaroo court, which has no proper jurisdiction?
Being forced into confessing to something he did not do?
More than one-third of his life in that hellhole?
A bright boy deprived of education?
His country's government too afraid of Washington to insist on his rights?
Ms Wente has a very odd idea of lucky.
I should remind readers of how bizarre Ms Wente's thoughts about children have been in the past, just so long as they were Islamic children:
http://chuckmanwords.wordpress.com/2009/05/28/the-iraq-wars-trashiest-piece-of-propaganda/
