Canada pressured to remove the US from 'countries that torture' list

[icymist]

Canada will remove US from document that lists countries where prisoners risk possible torture

TORONTO —Canada's foreign ministry said Saturday that it will rewrite a training manual used by Canadian diplomats that lists the United States as a site of possible torture following pressure from its closest ally.

The department document, released Friday, singled out the U.S. detention center at Guantanamo Bay. It also names Israel, Afghanistan, China, Egypt, Iran, Saudi Arabia, Mexico and Syria as places where inmates could face torture.

"I regret the embarrassment caused by the public disclosure of the manual used in the department's torture awareness training," Canada's Foreign Affairs Minister Maxime Bernier said in a statement issued Saturday.

"It contains a list that wrongly includes some of our closest allies. I have directed that the manual be reviewed and rewritten. The manual is neither a policy document nor a statement of policy. As such, it does not convey the government's views or positions," the statement added.

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The document prompted a sharp response from the U.S., a key NATO ally and trading partner, which asked to be removed from the manual.

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These days, in our corporate owned media, a 'sharp response' probably means pressured.

[rurallib]

1. We probably threatened to waterboard a few of their diplomats.

[icymist]

2. After all, we just can't believe all those pictures from Abu Grab and Gitmo....

can we? :sarcasm:

[water]

3. Dan Rather fabricated them.

[jimshoes]

4. The US doesn't torture

because the tapes that showed it are no more. See how that works.

[JohnyCanuck]

5. Dick "The Snarl" Cheney probably got on the horn

to PM Stephen "Suckhole" Harper and warned him that Canada wouldn't get invited to any more of America's wars. That is, unless Washington heard some groveling bleats of abject apology from Ottawa for daring to impugn the high moral character of the US government and promised the immediate deletion of the US from the list of states linked to torture.

[icymist]

6. Would this decision to remove the US from this list make Canada appear complicit

to the torture, um I mean fraternity pranks? Remember, after all, that Darth Cheney says that those guy in Gitmo have got it pretty good.... nice climate, beach party/soccer games.... more :sarcasm:

[icymist]

7. Kick up for the Sunday crowd.

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