The Truth about Gitmo Islamist Sympathizers Don't Want You to hear

The mainstream media and international human rights organizations have relentlessly portrayed the Guantanamo Bay detention facility as a depraved torture chamber operated by sadistic American military officials defiling Islam at every turn. It's the "gulag of our time," wails Amnesty International. It's the "anti-Statue of Liberty," bemoans New York Times columnist Tom Friedman. Have there been abuses? Yes. But here is the rest of the story -- the story that the Islamists and their sympathizers don't want you to hear.

According to recently released FBI documents, which are inaccurately heralded by civil liberties activists and military-bashers as irrefutable evidence of widespread "atrocities" at Gitmo:

A significant number of detainees' complaints were either exaggerated or fabricated (no surprise given al Qaeda's explicit instructions to trainees to lie). One detainee who claimed to have been "beaten, spit upon and treated worse than a dog" could not provide a single detail pertaining to mistreatment by U.S. military personnel. Another detainee claimed that guards were physically abusive, but admitted he hadn't seen it.

Another detainee disputed one of the now-globally infamous claims that American guards had mistreated the Koran. The detainee said that riots resulted from claims that a guard dropped the Koran. In actuality, the detainee said, a detainee dropped the Koran then blamed a guard. Other detainees who complained about abuse of the Koran admitted they had never personally witnessed any such abuse, but one said he had heard that non-Muslim soldiers touched the Koran when searching it for contraband.

In one case, Gitmo interrogators apologized to a detainee for interviewing him prior to the end of Ramadan. Several detainees indicated they had not experienced any mistreatment. Others complained about lack of privacy, lack of bed sheets, being unwillingly photographed, the guards' use of profanity, and bad food.

If this is unacceptable, "gulag"-style "torture," then every inmate in America is a victim of human rights violations. (Oh, never mind, there are civil liberties chicken littles who actually believe that.)

Erik Saar, who served as an army sergeant at Gitmo for six months and co-authored a negative, tell-all book about his experience titled Inside the Wire, inadvertently provides us more firsthand details showing just how restrained, and sensitive to Islam -- to a fault, I believe -- the officials at the detention facility have been.

Each detainee's cell has a sink installed low to the ground, "to make it easier for the detainees to wash their feet" before Muslim prayer, Saar reports. Detainees get "two hot halal, or religiously correct, meals" a day in addition to an MRE (meal ready to eat). Loudspeakers broadcast the Muslims' call to prayer five times a day. Every detainee gets a prayer mat, cap and Koran. Every cell has a stenciled arrow pointing toward Mecca.

Moreover, Gitmo's library -- yes, library -- is stocked with Jihadi books. "I was surprised that we'd be making that concession to the religious zealotry of the terrorists," Saar admits. "[I]t seemed to me that the camp command was helping to facilitate the terrorists' religious devotion." Saar notes that one FBI special agent involved in interrogations even grew a beard like the detainees "as a sort of show of respect for their faith."

Unreality-based liberals would have us believe that America is systematically torturing innocent Muslims out of spite at Guantanamo Bay. Meanwhile, our own MPs have endured little-publicized abuse at the hands of manipulative, hate-mongering enemy combatants. Detainees have spit on and hurled water, urine and feces on the MPs. Causing disturbances is a source of entertainment for detainees who, as Gen. Richard Myers points out, "would turn right around and try to slit our throats, slit our children's throats" if released.

The same unreality-based liberals whine about the Bush administration's failure to gather intelligence and prevent terrorism. Yet, these hysterical critics have no viable alternative to detention and interrogation -- and there is no doubt they would be the first to lambaste the White House and Pentagon if a released detainee went on to commit an act of mass terrorism on American soil.

Guantanamo Bay will not be the death of this country. The unseriousness and hypocrisy of the terrorist-abetting Left is a far greater threat.

"The question is, after that one, which part or parts of this BS are we supposed to go on believing?"

Well, since you are taking your facts from antiwar sites and since you got here on 4-14-05, I can believe that you are either ignorant or a troll.

Since the mass graves have been found and pictures taken, I will assume you are just ignorant. However, others may not be as understanding as I am.

This story, Gitmo abuse, is a plant by those who would like to see the Bush administration crumble...it ain't a gonna happen the bloggers and the people on the net can see and read what the truth is. You can bet Hillary was hoping this would gain legs; it is amazing how the Socialists, aka Democrats, are so willing to help a poor little 'ol al Qaeda combatant out, especially those poor down trodden prisoners at Guantanamo Bay who have never had it so good – special food; Korans galore, to use as they see fit even to stop up the plumbing; prayer rugs and special places; good medicine; baths, hair cuts and clean clothes even tooth brushes and dentists.

The spin and propaganda from the left and the MSM about this if for one purpose and one purpose alone – to lose the war here in America just like they did in Vietnam….It’s called Propaganda. We are winning this war in spite of all the resistance and acceptance of terrorists by the MSM and leftists, called appeasement so Oil for Food programs can continue – business as usual for the Socialists.

Hey! Look at how Europe has turned against SOCIALISM! Note to Clinton, Pelosi, Reid, Kennedy, John Kerry etc…….SOCIALISM DOESN’T WORK!

Keep ranting! All: send a comment to the White House and tell our President we're with him, shoulder to shoulder. The Socialists, aka Democrats, are treading traitorous ground and the country knows it! Only the left believes what the MSM and MSP calls reporting facts.

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