ORIGINAL SIN DOESN’T APPLY TO CANADIANS

Soldiers violating rules of war, major argues (David Pugliese, Ottawa Citizen, February 12th, 2005)

The Canadian Forces' practice of covering the heads of Afghan prisoners with hoods and using plastic handcuffs is an outdated way to handle captives could violate the Geneva Convention, a senior military police officer warned last year.

But Department of National Defence officials say since that the Afghan mission is a peacekeeping operation, any prisoners taken by Canadian troops are not subject to the convention.

Shocking and appalling to be sure, but now that we’re committing war crimes, can we re-join the club?