Posted on 03/03/2009 11:19:20 AM PST by trying17 (AKA DrGop0821)
A former CIA officer tells Fox News its ridiculous that the Bush administration didn't execute numerous prisoners at Guantanamo Bay, regardless of whether they have had a trial, when it had the chance.
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Where’s Mitch Rapp when we need him?
SHEESH!!! Talk about fodder for the Left!
The guy is right, but.................
Totally agree! Why allow this garbage back out to return and kill again? Oh I forgot,Obama is doing that!
It’d be better to release them on the WH grounds now.
Somehow they got hold of some weapons and...
I could not agree with the man more.
The leftists will eat this up though . . .
Not that I care what THEY feel. . . .
“Shot while trying to swim for it...”
one man says what so many others have been thinking...
I’m not so sure....after all, that’s what the terrorists wan’t, isn’t it? They look forward to death so they could enter their so-called “Paradise”.
I say let them face a military court & feed them pork & water.
I don’t know why were are taking prisoners in the first place.
I agree.
Except they should have been summarily executed on the battlefield.
“after all, that’s what the terrorists wan’t, isn’t it?”...
Yes, but get rid of them...there’s a lot more growing up in hatred to replace them that will have to be disposed of also.....
It doesn’t matter whether you agree or not. By the Geneva Convention (that the Left loves to pretend says “You can’t kill anyone in war”), the detainees ought to have been executed on the spot when they were captured. The Geneva Convention was written as a set of “rules” for war, so as to minimize civilian casualties (among other things). Among the primary ideas, combatants should wear easily recognizable uniforms. If thye fail to do so, they cannot be labelled “enemy combatants”, and thus are to be considered “spies”... and by the Geneva Convetion itself, those who fall into the “spy” category have virtually no rights, and can be summarily executed on the spot. Bush’s administration was trying to go above and beyond the Left’s beloved Geneva Convention, by sparing their lives, wasting precious manpower and resources capturing and containing these threats, and simply holding them in a neutral area... and the Left assails him for it.
This guy is 100% correct. Had Bush done the right thing and executed these detainees we’d not be worrying about them coming to the USA under the current administration.
Well each time one of these things dies you don't see any praise for it or any desire for it to be emulated anywhere. Why not kill them all? In a few months no one will remember what they were.
To be fair, the Bush administration rightfully granted Geneva Convention protections to the Taliban fighters as they were the “army” of that government.
“the detainees ought to have been executed on the spot when they were captured”
I don’t disagree with executing them, but they can provide a lot of good intel before the execution. We captured German soldiers wearing US uniforms at the Battle of the Bulge and they were not executed on the spot, but they were eventually executed. Giving orders to our troops to execute non-uniformed enemy combatants on the spot opens us up to some fairly dicey situations.
Waste not, want not.
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