Canada's Opposition Parties Now Asking for Khadr's Repatriation

An excellent piece. More people need to realize that he is by definition a child soldier.

I don't know all the niceties of international law and I have learned that I can't just go on whatever it is that is said by the people who happen to agree with me.

What is a child soldier other than a soldier under 18? How does that change anything? Was he in uniform when he was captured? Was he really on the battlefield or did he throw the grenade when he was, in fact, a civilian walking around freely behind the lines of battle?

I would rather be at the infamous Guantanamo Prison that at any number of California prisons where I would have to kill someone to avoid becoming the property of someone. Do I have to be more graphic?

Guantanamo was not a good idea. The US gov't should have declared war on the Taliban and Al Qada and just set up stockades on US soil and held these prisoners until the end of the war, which, by the way, won't be for decades.

Or we should have left them in a prisonn in Afghanistand and done a better job of guarding it than that one that got stormed, releasing all the inmates several years ago.

Behind this "concern" for this teenage boy, I find a degree of sympathy for the underdog that is unseemly. Fighting for the Taliban and Al Qada is to fight for the most backwards, repressive version of Islam, a version which conducts a war against all infidels, all women, all homosexuals, just to name the first groups that spring to mind.

Thanks for taking the time to read my opinion and making thoughtful comments.  We know that Omar Khadr was 15 when captured.  I don't think the Al Qada have uniforms.  There is conflicting testimony as to whether he did throw a grenade that killed the American medic.  There seems to be some question that it was in fact 'friendly fire' that killed him.  In Canada, we do not put 15 year old, badly wounded boys in with adult men and certainly not for seven years to make his way as best he can. 

The former American regime used Guantanamo Prison because the American public does not condone torture.  If they brought the Afganis to American soil, they would have to treat them as prisoners of war and not torture them.

I certainly have no sympathy for the cowardly terrorists who would deny about 90% of humanity the right to live in dignity, but if we revert to lawlessness to defeat them, we have already defeated ourselves.

The more publicity this story gets, the better for the families who live in fear that their teenage chidren will take up the dark , bloodied path of terrorism. The kids  have , either by the exposure to the internet or influenced by the propaganda created by a evid minded senior terrorist or by sheer peer pressure, see the path of terror as a fashionble one or more dangerously as another graphic-rich video game. They dont know what will happen to them if they get caught .

If the plight of Khadr saves even a small percentage of such kids, it will be great.

Spread the word......!

.Agent.