Former U.S. ambassador breaks party line, calls Arar deportation 'unfair'

[CHIMO]

Former U.S. ambassador breaks party line, calls Arar deportation 'unfair'

OTTAWA (CP) - The summary deportation of Maher Arar to Syria was "unfair" treatment of a Canadian citizen, says former U.S. ambassador Paul Cellucci.

And Canada's growing satisfaction with the decision to stay out of Iraq is understandable, added the outspoken former Massachusetts governor, given the ongoing insurgency there and the absence of weapons of mass destruction.

It's the first time an American official has expressed anything approaching regret over Arar's year-long incarceration and alleged torture in a Syrian prison - and flies directly in the face of recent comments by Cellucci's successor at the U.S. embassy in Ottawa.

His comments on Iraq equally challenge Republican Washington orthodoxy.

http://www.macleans.ca/topstories/politics/news/shownews.jsp?content=n092242A

BS. Not sorry that it happened but only that authorities were not advised. In the future they will be advised.

Seems to be clarifying the present ambassador's words.

Perhaps he is feeling a bit of heat, now that his views have been published, and he gets his paycheck from the father of a minister in the Canadian government!

[DBoon]

1. sad when opposing illegal torture is "breaking party line"

and is considered newsworthy.

For a prominent republican to oppose torturing an innocent man is so exceptional it makes the news?

[Kagemusha]

2. This man was very hardline against Canada while on the job.

So yes. It's news.

[AlamoDemoc]

3. Hear, Hear!

[applegrove]

4. Bush*Trying to make nice. Our anger is growing at your narcissism.

[tanyev]

5. Quick, get him back here! Time for a booster shot of kool-aid.

Sounds like those durn libruls in Canada are infecting him.