"The Supreme Court ruled that his Charter rights were violated. He was going to win the lawsuit. The Liberals were simply bowing to the inevitable." (Article)

This is what counts but how can Mr. Ibbitson suggest reasonable people could think the government should have fought this case in the courts anyway?

What would the government's argument to the court be? We don't like Khadr and don't care what you said before?  We already remedied the situation by letting him come back to a nice Canadian jail and kept him there as long as we could before a court made us throw him out.