Thumbs up! Top 5 recommended comments: Nov. 13

This week, the U.S. Department of Justice announced a military commission will resume hearing the case against Toronto-born Omar Khadr.

News of Khadr's hearing came on the same day that the Canadian government pleaded its appeal in the Supreme Court on Khadr's latest case.

Ottawa asked the top court to overturn a Federal Appeal Court decision requiring Ottawa to try to repatriate Khadr, the only Western citizen still being held at the U.S. military base in Guantanamo Bay, Cuba.

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1. 333 agreed:
"So like the fort hood shooter, we should ignore the obvious, and endanger our lives for the sake of political correctness.

This guy is a jihadist and was brainwashed since he was in the fetus
Dr Phil can't save him." —swineman

2. 326 agreed:

"Someone should force Harper to read his revised Canadiana booklet himself.
It's sick that the CPC touts Habeus Corpus when they're actively trying to go against the very principles.

To them, Khadr is guilty. Where exactly was his trial to prove his guilt?

This kid should be pitied for the way he's been persecuted without conviction. His entire teenage life has been spent locked in a cell. Never got to do anything normal kids did because of his parent's crappy beliefs, and his own government's paranoid xenophobia and sabre rattling.

It's an embarrassment that we just held Remembrance Day, but then we dishonor the values by not respecting the rights our soldiers fought for and we as Canadians consider moral and right." —dicky_barret

3. 348 agreed:

"He spent most of his life living with, and learning from, extremist terrorists, including the bin Ladens - in Pakistan and Afghanistan.

As far as I'm concerned, he is not a Canadian.

Let Pakistan or Afghanistan fight to get him back."
—Uncle Cool

4. 319 agreed:

The federal government is appealing a Federal Appeal Court decision to uphold a lower-court ruling that required Ottawa to try to repatriate 23-year-old Khadr, the only Western citizen still being held by the United States at its Guantanamo Bay military base in Cuba."

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So that I get this straight. After all these hearings are done a decision is made whether to ask the US to return Khadar to Canada and the US has to simply say no. Not until he has been tried in America.

So really all this court stuff is for nothing except wasting tax payers money

So what do we do with him upon return? Simply let him roam free?

Just wondering.
—Apocalypse

5. 318 agreed:

I hope omar is still in jail fifty years from now
—trump card