Barrel Strength

Liberal Senator and command washout Romeo Dallaire pumps up the volume and keeps his rhetoric fact-free in today’s National Post:

We are permitting the United States to try a Canadian child soldier using a military tribunal whose procedures violate basic principles of justice.

Let’s parse this one.

Canadian?

Like the rest of his loathsome, misbegotten family, Omar Khadr was a willing and proud minion of al Qaeda who regarded Canada as nothing better than “the greatest hotel on Earth”, as described by that other Great Canadian™, Yann Martel. Waving a passport doesn’t trump one’s membership in a pathologically criminal enterprise.

Soldier?

In whose army, precisely, as determined by the much invoked albeit barely read Geneva Conventions? It takes a bit more than sporting dirty pajamas and shouting “Allahu Akhbar!” to be a uniformed party to a military conflict. Again, Omar Khadr has no legal status greater than that of a pirate or brigand.

Basic principles of justice?

Why should the people of the United States, particularly the families and neighbours of servicemen slain by Khadr and his fellow irregulars, be denied justice in seeing murderers punished for their crimes? And does anyone think a criminal proceeding fair to both the offender and his American victims can occur in a neo-Trudeaupia where the public utterance of the “I-Word” is being criminalized?!

What finally places Senator Dallaire firmly beyond the pale is the headline of his tract, “Who are the real criminals in Omar Khadr’s case?”. What can one say of a man who holds public office yet, clasping to his chest the faint title of “national hero” , calls an entire state and nation criminals for not attempting to free a willing servant of evil from the burden of his crimes?

Senator, you disgust me.