Canada has placed the USA on a list of coutries which may torture prisoners. We have also classified some of the technigues you use as torture (water boarding)
Link
http://www.canada.com/...
"Under "definition of torture" the document lists U.S. interrogation techniques such as forced nudity, isolation, sleep deprivation and blindfolding prisoners."
In another Canada/US relations issue, Gates your defence Sec has just put his big foot in his bigger Mouth see below
More on Both below
Now this may come as no surprise to you, but consider this your largest suplier of oil has just stated that you support torture. This comes as a surprise to me since the conservative government here is fairly close with the Bush government compared with past Liberal goverments.
"Under "definition of torture" the document lists U.S. interrogation techniques such as forced nudity, isolation, sleep deprivation and blindfolding prisoners."
This information comes from a Manual that is given the help train our foreign diplomats. So basically Canada now considers the US a state sponsor of torture.....
On Gates
"US Defense Secretary Robert Gates unleashed a storm on Wednesday by criticizing NATO forces in southern Afghanistan, saying they were ill-prepared to fight an insurgency.
"I'm worried we have some military forces that don't know how to do counter-insurgency operations," Gates told the Los Angeles Times. "Most of the European forces, NATO forces, are not trained in counter-insurgency."
Now coming from a country where we have lost dozens of soliders in aftganistan this is a preatty freaking big slap in the face.
Link
http://afp.google.com/...
Now Canada, the Brits and the Dutch have many soliders in these areas and all of these countries are pissed.
I can't believe that the US would start a war in aftganistan ask for help and then take a huge shit on those countries still in aftganistan after 6 years! I can't even begin to think of what our troops on the ground feel about this.