Canada Groups US With Syria And Others That Torture

Foreign Affairs suspects U.S. tortures prisoners

Published: Thursday, January 17, 2008

OTTAWA - A Foreign Affairs document has identified the United States and Israel as countries it suspects of practicing torture.

The document also defines such U.S. interrogation techniques as blindfolding and forced nudity as torture.

The emergence of the document - a Power Point presentation meant to instruct Canadian diplomats on how to recognize torture cases abroad - is bound to strain relations with the two countries that Conservative Prime Minister Stephen Harper has sought to strengthen during his two years in power.

If there was any doubt left that rest of the free world has lost all respect for the United States, this should close the case.

Osama and the terrorist have won, they have turned us into shadow of our former selves. We have lost the high moral ground we had before 9/11 and have squandered the opportunity to truly change the world we were presented following 9/11.