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As Americans are we proud that our nation has taken civilians, some of them US citizens, into custody and holds them indnfinitely without charge, without an attorney, without contact with family and without judicial review?
Perhaps you could list for us the enemy combatants in Gitmo that are U.S. citizens. Perhaps you can explain to us from the Geneva convention what the rights are of enemy combatants that do not wear a uniform. The fact is this is the most logical place for them, they are very well taken care of (much better than they deserve) and they do not ever deserve the same rights as U.S. citizens to due process.
Are we disturbed that most of the original Gitmo detainees have already been determined to be of no danger afterall and released without so much as a "sorry to ruin your life but we just screwed up"?
As with any war there are civilian casualties and errors made with respect to separating enemy combatants from civilians, especially when the enemy intentionally tries to mask themselves as civilians. Read some history books from WWII and some of the books coming out today about our actions in Iraq and Afghanistan and you will see a vastly different perspective. Today we go out of our way, and dramatically increase risk to our soldiers, to protect civilians. We have nothing to apologize for. An besides, a significant number of these innocent, peace loving people that you are so concerned about were later killed in battles with Coalition soldiers. Yes, mistakes are made but not in one direction.
How is it possible our US prisons are OK for holding the Uni-bomber, Ted Manson, the Okla. City bomber, and thousands of the lowest form humanity one can imagine but are not strong enough to safely confine an few dozen accused Islamic terrorist?
Because unlike the Islamofascists, nobody is going to try to free the unibomber, Ted Manson (whoever that is), etc. If you want them so badly offer to put them up in your house.
If the America of our our parents and grandparents was able to survive with hundreds of thousands of German, Italian and Japanese POW's held in barbed-wire stockades all across rural America in 1943-46, shouldn't today's America be able to survive a tiny fraction of that number in solitary at a maximum security prison?
See the point above, and besides, the vast majority of these people were U.S. citizens that were loyal to this country. Trying to compare these peaceful people that were unfortunately and wrongly denied their rights and locked up by a DEMOCRAT president and enemy combatant Islamofascist terrorists in Gitmo is beyond ridiculous and barely worth the effort of this reply.
And, does it not make some sense to get rid of one of the Terrorist's strongest recruiting aids.....Git
This is by far the most inane point in your post. Let's revisit history for you since you must spend all your free time watching Jerry Springer re-runs. World Trade Center bombing 1993 - no Gitmo, Khobar Towers 1996 - no Gitmo, USS Coles 1998 - no Gitmo, bombings in London and Spain - no Gitmo, the murder of 3,000 innocent Americans in 2001 - no Gitmo. You see Archie, the Islamofascists terrorists had no problem recruiting before Gitmo ever existed. What you fail to comprehend is Gitmo is not a cause, it is an effect. You read too many nonsensical liberal talking points.
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