Thursday - November 13, 2008

GUANTANAMO.  A STAIN ON THE USA?  ONLY AMONG THE TRULY IGNORANT. AND SCREW THEM!

BMEWSers, I am so damn sick and tired and PO’d at the attacks on us over Gitmo, I seriously wish our folks in DC just one damn time had the guts to tell the rest of the world to ef off!  Not your god damn business and it’s an internal American affair so buzz the hell off.
Or words to that effect.  Just one damn time.  Is that asking too much?  Yeah, right. I guess it is.

So being as how I’m in a pissy mood over this and reading how Obama is gonna make nice and close the place (idiot), I thought I’d post yesterday’s Daily Mail editorial.  Trouble is, I no longer find it online.  So I’m going to copy most of it here longhand.  I can’t scan it properly or I would.  Must get that fixed one day soon.

A STAIN ON THE U.S.
Daily Mail editorial

As the Mail has argued for many years, the very existence of Guantanamo Bay interrogation camp is a black stain on the reputation of the United States.

(Did any of you guys ask the idiot editor of the mail for his opinion on the subject? Did any American ask any uro-pee-on for an opinion on our internal affairs?  Didn’t think so.)

Nothing has done more to undermine the West’s moral authority then this no-go zone for justice, where prisoners are tortured and held for years without trial.

Now at last an end is in sight for this affront to the cause of freedom, which has done so much to reinforce islamist prejudices against America and her allies.

(Screw this freedom crap. Nobody told me it was all about freedom.  It’s about the very survival of my country and frankly the rest of the world can go fuck itself along with the schmuck swine editor and all who think like him.  Oh sure, islamic prejudice didn’t exist before Gitmo. We evil Americans brought it all on ourselves. Oh but WAIT BMEWS cause you ain’t seen nothin’ yet. Here’s the interesting rest of this crap.RCOB )

Many detainees are likely to be released.  Others will be shipped to the U.S. for trial in ordinary criminal courts. A third group whose cases involve highly classified information, may be tried under special rules to protect national security.

True, the plans are far from perfect. They carry the risk that some dangerous terrorists may escape justice, while other detainees will be denied full rights offered by the U.S. legal system.

WHAT MATTERS MOST IS THAT THE CAMP IS TO BE CLOSED - AND WITH IT A SHAMEFUL CHAPTER IN AMERICA’S HISTORY.

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Sorry dickhead editor.  I feel NO shame with regard to Guantanamo.  If anything, I object to the fact that all they weren’t shot long ago.
I object to the fact that you’re alive and breathing and hope that ends soon.

So then and just about the time I’m climbing down from my frustration over the Daily Mail thing, I made the mistake of looking at our very local almost amateur rag that passes for a newspaper.  It really is a joke but I like the property pages.  The wife wisely tried to hide todays edition but somehow I managed to find it and I wasn’t looking.  Wish I hadn’t now because of course all the blood comes boiling to the top again.
Yet another know it all only this time the writer is he says, half American, so he can tell everyone how awful Gitmo is. 

He says that “what happened on Nov. 4th ranks with any of the other remarkable, memorable, life changing decisions the American people have have ever taken— on our behalf as well as their own.”

What the hell is he talking about with that last bit.  We took nothin’ on anyone’s behalf but our own and there will be time to regret that.

He goes on to mention great men who changed the lives of millions. Men who were elected in the US at a crucial time and mentions
Lincoln,Kennedy and Roosevelt in 1932.  “Now Americans have elected Obama and changed the world’s perception of his country.” He says.

I’m not interested in any of the above to be honest.  What got to me was that damn Guantanamo thing. Again. He seems to pretty much be following the party line.

He goes on to say that Bush leaves us involved in two “unwinable wars.” And a reputation “scarred by Guantanamo Bay.”

He sees in Obama, “a serious man for serious times,” and feels “some sympathy for Bush” who “showed dignity and true leadership after 9/11.” Well gee.  I’m feeling all warm and fuzzy cause he had a few nice things to say there.

He also thinks that McCain looked like a beaten man long before the ballot itself and Palin a disastrous choice as a running mate.
To be fair here, I think many of us thought McCain looked bad for a long time before Nov.4th.

So there.  I got that all out, but not necessarily off my chest.  Well heck, that’s part of the blog world too I guess.
I’m not thick skinned enough most likely and resent all the bad mouthing and second guessing with regard to MY COUNTRY!  I resent foreigners sticking their noses into what I believe to be our own business. 

And maybe too I need to quit reading any newspapers or listening to news radio for a year or so.  Yeah, like that’s gonna happen.

Stay Tuned

Posted by peiper     on 11/13/2008 at 01:17 PM   
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