Posted on 07/18/2005 6:27:19 AM PDT by freedrudge
GUANTANAMO BAY, CUBA -- Abdullah M. was missing a leg when he got to Gitmo. In due course, he was fitted with a prosthetic leg and given occupational therapy to teach him how to use it. In the Orwellian inversion that dominates "world opinion" and requires us to prove we're the good guys, he was interrogated and -- after convincing our guys that he really wasn't a terrorist fanatic -- released and repatriated to Afghanistan. Now sought for involvement in the kidnapping of Chinese engineers and a bombing of the Islamabad Marriott, Abdullah is walking around on the artificial leg we evil Americans paid for.
Last Tuesday, in the company of Gen. Jay Hood, the Gitmo Joint Task Force commander, I and several other military analysts spent the day inside the terrorist detention camps and interrogation facilities, talked to a lot of intel people and soldiers, and saw about all there is to see at Gitmo.
What I saw made me proud and disgusted: proud at how our guys and gals are dealing with some of the world's worst; disgusted at the Fonda-Durbins of the world who want the world to believe that Gitmo is Auschwitz and terrorists are some oppressed minority.
As Gen. Hood explained, the mission of the Gitmo facility is twofold. First, to interrogate and obtain useful information from the terrorists held there. Second, to keep the dangerous ones from returning to terrorism, as so many of them openly say they want to do. There are about 520 of them. Many of them are just common thugs; foot soldiers in the terrorist gangs. With only a few exceptions -- notably those who reside in Gitmo's equivalent of a psycho ward -- they are cold, hard cases
(Excerpt) Read more at spectator.org ...
Shhhh!!!!
The problem is artices like this will never be seen by most Americans. Why? IMO most of the MSM really doesn't believe we are at war, no matter what they say. They still view this as a law enforcement problem, and as a tool to "get" George Bush.
Pieces like this simply reconfirm what I believe is going on at Gitmo. That nothing is going on there that would make me ashamed of.
These people are doing the lords work.
Does it make a difference ? probably not, but.....
guess what ? we went from having a 1 in 50 shot of knowing which state these guys live in to a 1-1 shot.
Piece a few more throwaway odds & ends together and you can get a profile.
Loose lips sink ships.
Ditto.
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