If you "followed these times closely," how do you not know Khadr's father was killed 14 months AFTER his son's capture, not before? Or that his role as an al-Qaeda money man hardly qualified him as a "top leader?" Or that he was released from Pakistan to Canada because of lack of evidence connecting him to an al-Qaeda bombing?

Considering it has never been definitively proven that Omar Khadr killed anyone, your "killing a medic" passage is remarkably self-serving.

It was Chretien who sent an underprepared militia to Afghanistan, not Martin. The latter presided over the biggest military spending increase in 2 decades, while doubling the contingent in Afghanistan. Meanwhile, Harper committed to an end to hostilities in 2011, only to extend the mission another 3 years (and announcing it unilaterally as a done deal before "consulting Parliament"). It took him 8 years of doubling down before he finally ended the mission.

"Straying beyond factual proof?" Oh, yeah -- definitely.

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