Tuesday, June 19, 2007
MAKE UP YOUR MIND!!!!
Okay,
As I understand it, Gitmo is a terrible place. It doesn't matter what a person has done, or might have done. They could be a viable prisoner of war, or whatever, but Gitmo is too heinous a place for anyone.
So, now, we are going to release 6 prisoners from Gitmo, and the same people that have been spewing the above are COMPLAINING?!?!
We've agreed to send them home, just like the Gitmo accusers have been saying all along. Yet, now, we are even worse Bad Guys for doing what they said, and sending them home?!?!
Give me a break!
WHAT ARE THESE PEOPLE SMOKING?
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One of my favorite lines in this article states:
So-and so, "a 50-year-old Tunisian who has been held without charge since August 2002."
EXCUSE ME?
We are at war. (For those of you that didn't know ... I know it's hard to tell with all the coverage of Paris Hilton, lately.)
Since when has ANY "civilized" country tried a prisoner of war in a criminal court?
IN FACT, if I remember right, that is PROHIBITED by the GENEVA CONVENTIONS!
But, somehow, or other, the US are the Bad Guys for holding people as prisoners of war, in situations like we held POW's in previous wars, without charging them with crimes (again, AGAINST the Geneva Conventions), or letting them go home, ... or, now, we are the Bad Guys for giving them an all-expenses-trip home!
Keep in mind that the, currently, 375 prisoners at Gitmo are the worst of the people that we captured.
Let me refresh your memory how we captured them:
THEY WERE FIGHTING US MILITARY FORCES IN A WAR ZONE!
More of them would be in Gitmo, but they were the ones killed in the firefight that led to the 375 captured. In all likelihoods, they took some American servicemen with them, in the firefight.
BTW, just for your edification, the last time I saw a credible figure for ARMED, enemy combatants killed in Iraq by coalition forces the number was just over 22,000.
We lost 4,000-6,000 on D-Day, June 6, 1944, during WWII.
Do a Google search. Have we, in over 4 years of war in Iraq, have we lost as many people as we did on that one single day during WWII?
It makes for an interesting perspective, doesn't it?
As I understand it, Gitmo is a terrible place. It doesn't matter what a person has done, or might have done. They could be a viable prisoner of war, or whatever, but Gitmo is too heinous a place for anyone.
So, now, we are going to release 6 prisoners from Gitmo, and the same people that have been spewing the above are COMPLAINING?!?!
We've agreed to send them home, just like the Gitmo accusers have been saying all along. Yet, now, we are even worse Bad Guys for doing what they said, and sending them home?!?!
Give me a break!
WHAT ARE THESE PEOPLE SMOKING?
---
One of my favorite lines in this article states:
So-and so, "a 50-year-old Tunisian who has been held without charge since August 2002."
EXCUSE ME?
We are at war. (For those of you that didn't know ... I know it's hard to tell with all the coverage of Paris Hilton, lately.)
Since when has ANY "civilized" country tried a prisoner of war in a criminal court?
IN FACT, if I remember right, that is PROHIBITED by the GENEVA CONVENTIONS!
But, somehow, or other, the US are the Bad Guys for holding people as prisoners of war, in situations like we held POW's in previous wars, without charging them with crimes (again, AGAINST the Geneva Conventions), or letting them go home, ... or, now, we are the Bad Guys for giving them an all-expenses-trip home!
Keep in mind that the, currently, 375 prisoners at Gitmo are the worst of the people that we captured.
Let me refresh your memory how we captured them:
THEY WERE FIGHTING US MILITARY FORCES IN A WAR ZONE!
More of them would be in Gitmo, but they were the ones killed in the firefight that led to the 375 captured. In all likelihoods, they took some American servicemen with them, in the firefight.
BTW, just for your edification, the last time I saw a credible figure for ARMED, enemy combatants killed in Iraq by coalition forces the number was just over 22,000.
We lost 4,000-6,000 on D-Day, June 6, 1944, during WWII.
Do a Google search. Have we, in over 4 years of war in Iraq, have we lost as many people as we did on that one single day during WWII?
It makes for an interesting perspective, doesn't it?
