Tuesday - November 11, 2008
Obama Will Close Gitmo
Isn’t that special? He’s going to send all the terrorists and POWs home. The rest will come to the US to get trials ... which will get thrown out for a myriad of reasons.
As one of his first acts in the White House, Barack Obama is preparing to move hundreds of detainees from Guantanamo Bay prison to the US where they will be given legal hearings, trials or face yet-to-be-established special terrorist courts.
Mr Obama has a long-standing commitment to shut down Guantanamo, which has become a symbol of injustice for human rights campaigners, and a lightning rod for anti-US criticism since it opened eight years ago. Closing the prison, which is on a part of Cuba leased to the US, will bring to an end one of the most poisonous legacies of the Bush administration while sending a signal that the “war on terror” is under more enlightened management.
Don’t you just love the scare quotes around “war on terror”? Because it isn’t real. It doesn’t exist. It’s just a Bushism used as an excuse to beat up on the pore ‘n starvin around the world.
During his election campaign, Mr Obama described Guantanamo and the CIA’s secret prisons around the world as a “sad chapter in American history”. Other aspects of Mr Bush’s “war on terror” will also demand Mr Obama’s urgent attention such as yesterday’s revelation by the New York Times that the US military has, during the past four years, conducted up to a dozen secret raids in Pakistan and other countries not at war with the US.
Hey, if the Pakis only claim that a certain bit of land is theirs, but they come out and admit they can’t and won’t even begin to govern it, then it isn’t really theirs is it? When we start bombing downtown Krachi, then they have a real complaint. (yes I spelled it that way on purpose. Crotchy. Stank, rank, probably with itchy bugs. That’s me being mean to countries I have no respect for, again. I’m the un-compassionate conservative.)
Mr Obama’s plans for Guantanamo inmates should see most detainees, against whom there is little or no evidence, being released to their home countries after years in legal limbo. Others will face prosecution in US criminal courts. One problem for those courts will face is deciding whether evidence from anonymous intelligence sources or obtained without any legal process can be taken into account.
“Most of the detainees are goat herders, or Arabs who volunteered to help the Taliban, but they are not hardcore terrorists. The real problem is getting their home countries to accept them back.”
My ass. At the very least every single one of these creeps is a POW. Many of them are ... softcore terrorists? Does that mean they just show a little bit of bomb, but never press the button? But even as the rest of this article goes all mushy as it leans to the left and has 3 rousing rounds of singing Kumbayah for these poor, poor mistreated ... goat herders ... a little bit of truth sneaks out by accident. If they’re all so good, pure, kind, innocent, and nearly holy ... why won’t their home countries welcome them back?
Posted by Drew458
on 11/11/2008 at 01:52 PM
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