Omar Khadr has been freed on bail in Canada while he appeals his conviction by a US kangaroo court in Guantanamo.

It appears that Khadr was a child soldier fighting against US forces. If he didn't throw a grenade at US troops, he presumably wished to. That was a valid reason to take him prisoner. It would have been a valid reason to shoot him, if he hadn't been incapacitated already. That's war.

However, prisoners of war are not supposed to be accused of a crime for waging war against our troops. And they are not supposed to be tortured — not even adult soldiers. (Khadr's "confession", extracted by torture, counts for nothing.) As for child soldiers, they are all victims. It appears Omar Khadr does not want to fight that war any more.

As for the Canadian government, when it called for keeping a Canadian in prison to cater to a foreign government, it reached a low point of servility.