Dosanjh makes more baseless accusations against our troops

Liberal MP Ujjal Dosanjh just can't help himself when it comes to smearing our Canadian Forces.

Yesterday he went on the CBC to imply that our soldiers "ordered the torture" of Taliban terrorists and "sent people to torture" -- or at the very least consented to that happening. It's all very vague -- Dosanjh is building accusations on rumours, so it's all a product of his own fervid imagination -- but the point is clear. Watch the clip for yourself:

This has become a recurring theme for Dosanjh. Last fall, he called our generals' explanation of our troops' conduct in Afghanistan "morally weak":

This would be bad enough if Dosanjh were a back-bench MP. But he is Ignatieff's hand-picked defence critic -- in other words, were the Liberals to be returned to power, Dosanjh, a former Communist organizer and NDP premier, would be the defence minister. Could you imagine if such a smearer of our troops became the boss of our troops?

Dosanjh's comments are not gaffes or errors. They represent the considered position of the Liberal Party. Here's his colleague, John McCallum, a former defence minister, outright using the phrase "war crimes" (and the CBC's crack investigative reporter Suhana Meharchand bravely declines to ask him about it):

Ignatieff himself has fingered our own troops -- again, based on nothing but speculation and innuendo. Here's what he told Joan Bryden last fall:

Ignatieff said the documents would shed light on such crucial matters as whether Canada has respected international law and human rights, "the conduct of our troops in the field" and the conduct of the government which appears to have ignored warnings about torture.

"This is really serious stuff," he said, adding that Liberals "will not let up about this."

Without seeing any documents, without seeing the facts, Ignatieff was smearing "our troops in the field" -- not bureaucrats in the Department of Defence, not political leaders or even generals, but our troops in the field.

It is remarkable to me how sensitive the Liberals, and their chorus in the mainstream press, are to charges of being unpatriotic or anti-military. How they bristle at that accusation. And for good reason: they are anti-troops, and as the video clips above, and Ignatieff's quote, show, they don't hesitate to say so.

They just hate being called on it.

Being accused of being anti-soldier wouldn't cause such a reaction in, say, Stephen Harper or Peter MacKay -- they would laugh it off, or give a puzzled look, or simply rattle off the dozen things they've done to revitalize our military, both physically and morally. Such an accusation wouldn't hurt their feelings or lead them to sputter in righteous indignation, because it would be so obviously baseless.

The shrieks of horror when the Liberals are accused of being anti-military are precisely because they are anti-military, but they think they can get away with it.

I agreed with Tom Flanagan, when he wrote that the Tories should not be afraid, politically, of the Afghan detainee issue. The opposition parties are united against our troops; and on the related issues of Omar Khadr, Maher Arar and other underminers, the opposition parties are united in support of our enemies. That goes over well with much of the Parliamentary Press Gallery and the Canadian Bar Association, but ordinary Canadians find it appalling, and even traitorous.

Let's have an election on this issue. Let's stack the moral character of our Canadian Forces against the moral character of those who are trying to assassinate their reputation for political gain. Let's get Maher Arar on the campaign trail -- hell, let's run him as a star Liberal candidate, and even put Omar Khadr's name on the ballot as a Liberal candidate, in absentia. The media cheerleading will make it an unbearable five weeks, but the rebuke our unpatriotic opposition and the MSM will receive from Canadians after such a spectacle will make it worthwhile.

Election, please.