Torture allegations against Iraqis fighting on our side should cause Canadians concern

Canadians should seriously question why we are taking sides in this barbaric bloodletting.

General Jonathan Vance, Canada’s chief of defence staff, reacted to torture revelations in The Toronto Star by saying: 'It doesn’t even fall into the category of understandable. In fact it mirrors what Daesh is doing, and you lose if you don’t maintain the moral high ground in this kind of war.'The Hill Times photograph by Marco Vigliotti

Opinion

BY SCOTT TAYLOR

June 21, 2017

OTTAWA—Earlier this month The Toronto Star published an exposé complete with graphic photographs depicting horrific torture and abuse of prisoners in Iraq. What made the story and images so shocking was that this barbarism was not the handiwork of Daesh (also known as the Islamic State...

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