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Flames Draft Watcher · 07-27-2010, 11:57 AM

There's some threads where I wish we had the downrate/uprate a post options instead of just the "Thanks" button. Peter12's posts in this thread would have been downrated by me.

The security risks if there are many or any, aren't necessarily apparent. I can understand anybody with military experience to side with the military view of things.

What I can't understand is those who want ignorance of reality. Transparency of information, accurate reporting, etc are needed to help prevent and expose corruption, atrocity, war-crimes, etc.

Clearly some people don't want to think for themselves and must believe the motives of government to be blameless. But I think a lot of us are wondering why we are in Afghanistan, why we were ever in Afghanistan, what the long-term plan is, what the costs have been, what the results have been, etc. Whose interest is it serving to be in Afghanistan? Why Afghanistan and not some of the other troubled countries in the world?

Why wouldn't you want to know how many civilians have been killed? How many troops have been killed by friendly fire? How many journalistic reports have been slanted?

What kind of person wants that vital information repressed? Our tax money is going towards the operation no? Shouldn't the government be accountable for their military action? Shouldn't they have to justify and explain it? Isn't it in the best interest of most Canadians for information about this war to be released?

If soldiers are murdering civilians on the taxpayers dime and not enough is done to investigate it, prevent it, etc the world most definitely needs to know about it. And I have zero respect for the sheep who want such information repressed.

07-27-2010, 11:57 AM	#63
Flames Draft Watcher In the Sin Bin Join Date: Oct 2001 Exp:	There's some threads where I wish we had the downrate/uprate a post options instead of just the "Thanks" button. Peter12's posts in this thread would have been downrated by me. The security risks if there are many or any, aren't necessarily apparent. I can understand anybody with military experience to side with the military view of things. What I can't understand is those who want ignorance of reality. Transparency of information, accurate reporting, etc are needed to help prevent and expose corruption, atrocity, war-crimes, etc. Clearly some people don't want to think for themselves and must believe the motives of government to be blameless. But I think a lot of us are wondering why we are in Afghanistan, why we were ever in Afghanistan, what the long-term plan is, what the costs have been, what the results have been, etc. Whose interest is it serving to be in Afghanistan? Why Afghanistan and not some of the other troubled countries in the world? Why wouldn't you want to know how many civilians have been killed? How many troops have been killed by friendly fire? How many journalistic reports have been slanted? What kind of person wants that vital information repressed? Our tax money is going towards the operation no? Shouldn't the government be accountable for their military action? Shouldn't they have to justify and explain it? Isn't it in the best interest of most Canadians for information about this war to be released? If soldiers are murdering civilians on the taxpayers dime and not enough is done to investigate it, prevent it, etc the world most definitely needs to know about it. And I have zero respect for the sheep who want such information repressed. Last edited by Flames Draft Watcher; 07-27-2010 at 12:05 PM.