Blown It.
He approved a secretive 10.5 Million Dollar payment to Al Qaeda Terrorist and Killer...Omar Khadr.
And dear Reader, I am furious.
Khadr admitted to killing an unarmed US Medic by the name of Sgt. Christopher Speer and blinding in one eye, Sgt. Layne Morris in fighting between these Terrorists and US forces in Afghanistan in July of 2002.
And yet, the Government of Canada, under the auspicious (?) Leadership of Justin Trudeau, just this week apologized to Khadr while paying him secretly $10.5 Million in order to defeat Speer's widow, Tabitha Speer from realizing on her multi-million dollar successful lawsuit against the same Omar Khadr.
It makes one want to throw-up !!
I know, I promised to not deal with Canadian Issues for at least a year but something like this continues to come up and I simply cannot help myself.
Some Relevant and Interesting History:
The Ruling Liberals, as is their want, have tried to place blame on the former Conservative Government under Stephen Harper for the Khadr debacle but this is all Liberal doing from A to Z.
The Father, Ahmed Khadr, a close confidante to the late Osama bin Laden was killed in a firefight with Pakistani forces in 2003. He had been jailed by Pakistan earlier but in 1996 then Canadian Liberal Prime Minister Jean Chretien saw fit to successfully plead for his release on the basis that Ahmed did not pose a threat to security. With that Liberal Government act, the dye was cast.
In that same 2003 firefight another of Ahmed Khadr's sons...Abdul Karim Khadr was paralyzed and Canada is paying for his medical bills. Unbelievable. They all should have been stripped of their citizenship for Treason.
Omar Khadr's mother...the now widow of the lateAhmed has been quoted many times saying she hates Canadian Society all the while gratefully accepting, on behalf of herself and what is left of the Terrorist Clan, the largess that self same Society regularly bestows upon them.
Supporters of Omar Khadr ...and there are many in Progressive Canada, argue that Omar was but a mere boy when his fight with the American Soldiers took place...and indeed he was but 15 years old at the time. But even the Misguided United Nations describes a child soldier as being less than 15.
But irrespective of that, Khadr was not a child soldier. He was a Terrorist and as such was not entitled to any protections under the
Geneva Convention.
And to return to the Liberal Government involvement, when Omar Khadr went to Guantanamo in 2003, who was the Prime Minister of Canada?...You got it - the one and the same Jean Chretien who had earlier arranged for his father's release.
And our Liberal Government keeps saying it was all the Conservatives fault.
And moving along, when an agreement was finally reached with the Americans in 2012 to allow Omar Khadr to spend the rest of his sentence back here in Canada, who was the Governing Party then? Well guess what, it was the Conservatives under Stephen Harper !!
And who sold out to Omar ...by not only apologizing to him but to pay him over Ten Million Dollars for the privilege.. Again, it was the current Liberal Government under Justin Trudeau.
In this strange and upside-down world of ours we have most certainly lost our moral compass. Our compassion should rest with Sgt. Speer's widow, his young children and with the poor soldier who was blinded. And instead, our Liberal Government made sure that these victims could not easily collect on this blood-money payment. It is to weep.
Here is what Retired American State Department Diplomat, David T. Jones, had to say about Canada's Disgraceful Conduct:
"Somehow, Khadr became the victim ...as if Canadians should be able to travel the world, kill US Soldiers and suffer no consequences".
As I see it...
'K.D. Galagher'
