Posted on 11/14/2006 5:23:02 AM PST by SJackson
And yet the idea persists that Guantanamo represents some kind of "American Gulag"--and that the detainees are victims of a monstrous miscarriage of justice: innocent goatherds and blameless wedding guests swept up by blind American injustice.
Ten days ago, I joined one of the regular tours of Guantanamo organized by the U.S. military. Hundreds of U.S. and international journalists, human rights experts, and parliamentarians had taken this trip before me. (You can read a four-part description of the visit in the next four issues of the Toronto Sun, in articles and photographs by Peter Worthington, who travelled with me.)
Here in this shorter space, I want to focus on something else: the words of the detainees themselves, as posted in 53 PDF volumes at http://www.dod.mil/pubs/foi/detainees/csrt/index.html.
These statements are excerpted from the testimony of detainees before military tribunals. The evidence against the detainees in many cases remains classified, but you can read the protestations of innocence in full--and determine their credibility for yourself.
Some selections from my own still incomplete reading (citations will be posted Monday at frum.nationalreview.com):
Or, in the words of that Yemeni would-be medical student without a medical school: "What is the meaning of 'terrorist'? I don't even know what that word is."
That's his story, and he's sticking to it.
But what's the excuse of those in the West who succumb so easily to the deceptions of terrorists who cannot invent even half-way plausible lies?
These scumbags will all get government-paid public defenders who made their way through law school by successfully pleading that dogs ate their homework.
Just love it when they "forget" the name of whoever got them in their predicament. lol
I meant somebody in Gitmo claiming to be the "real Borat."
These excuses should be made into a commercial by the RNC. They're hysterical!
"These scumbags will all get government-paid public defenders who made their way through law school by successfully pleading that dogs ate their homework."
Actually, they are getting very good, liberal lawyers who do this pro bono because they hate Bush so much. I know of two such lawyers.
Will these people then tell us why they urinate on our soldiers and why they throw their feces on our soldiers who are watching over them? They find it no problem to humiliate our soldiers there and the media overlooks it completely. Why?
Hey, no problem: we can find space at Gitmo for that Turkish guy....
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