Bet this guy is glad for the Afghanistan Torture Allegations ...

I would be willing to bet that Conservative MP Gerald Keddy is relieved that the media is so focused on the whole debacle that is the Afghanistan Torture Allegation, that his mis-deeds are floating under the radar ...

As an MP for Nova Scotia, he refered to folks in Halifax who are on social assistance - or assumed to be on social assistance as "no-good bastards"!!

The outrage in the house, by his fellow Nova Scotia MPs resulted in Keddy offering an apology ... meanwhile in the House of Commons, we have Minister MacKay trying to hide behind the soldiers on the ground in Afghanistan by shifting the focus to them, and God knows that today we can't criticize our soldiers without being regarded as un-partiotic!!??

The Conservative Government is turning into quite a piece of work ... You have Prime Minister Harper talking about more openness towards the press on Saturday then refusing to take questions - the irony, as my fellow blogger Gord point out over at Following Frodo, is delicious!

Then you have Minister MacKay trying to dismiss the serious allegations that some of the detainees handed over to Afghani authorities might have been tortured ... is it just me, or was this NOT a startling revelation ??? Duh !! Given everything else we know about what's happening in the Afghanistan government - like corruption and fixing elections, is it really such a stretch to think that torturing prisoners was a possibility?? Afterall, the white knights in the battle against Terror used water boarding, isolation, and let's not forget Abu Ghraib prison and the stellar performance of AMERICAN soldiers there ... if the American soldiers fell to torture and mis-treatment, why would we pretend the Afghani's would be immune ... wasn't it an Afghani police officer who turned on British troops a week or so ago and massacred five British troops ...

The litany goes on and on and on ...

I wonder how Minister MacKay can stand up and rebuff the call for a thorough investigation into these allegations ...

But to top it off, Prime Minister Harper is trying to dismiss this issue as nothing more than "Taliban propaganda" ...

All I can say is - OH MY GOD !!!!

The Conservative Government can't be serious that they don't see the need for an inquiry ... this is NOT the fault of the soldiers on the ground ... this can not however be ignored.

No doubt Mr Keddy is breathing a HUGE sigh of relief that he barely ranked a side bar on the online news sites in the midst of this ... BUT all of this just makes the Conservatives look worse and worse and worse ... too bad the Canadian electorate can't connect some dots and see it for themselves ...