Testimony of Spc. Brandon Neely

Is this guy another phony soldier? I'm sure we'll be seeing this guy paraded before congress soon as the libs begin their lynching of the Bush Administration. I know guys that worked at GITMO and they described nothing like what this guy is saying. Their voices won't be heard, but this guy will be. Suggestions on how to counter this tactic?

Do we know just how many jihadists were there when he left in June 2002?

http://www.thenewstribune.com/tacoma/24hour/world/story/627287.html

Former Guantanamo prison guard Brandon Neely poses Thursday, Feb. 12, 2009 in Houston, Texas. Neely has come forward in this final year of the detention center's existence, saying he wants to publicly air his feelings of guilt and shame about how some soldiers behaved as the military scrambled to handle the first alleged al-Qaida and Taliban members arriving at the isolated U.S. Navy base.

An excerpt from the article: Neely, a burly Texan who served for a year in Iraq after his six months at Guantanamo, received an honorable discharge last year, with the rank of specialist, and now works as a law enforcement officer in the Houston area. He is also president of the local chapter of Iraq Veterans Against the War.

Burly Texan, eh? He looks like a fat-&ssed whiner whose mommy fed too many donuts. What-a-slug!

Iraq Vets against the war...sounds like a Commie outfit to me.

nope, but i bet we have some freepers that know a great deal about what is and is not truthful about what this supposed soldier has allegedly said

“Burly Texan, eh? He looks like a fat-&ssed whiner whose mommy fed too many donuts. What-a-slug!”

Yeah...creepy. I don’t trust him.

Talk about pure BS from this Blue Falcon.

No training on how to handle detainees? You handle them the same way as if you would handle any other prisoners just like he was supposedly trained to do at Fort Lostinthewoods. My God what a moron!

I was a scout (19D) and I know more than this idiot who’s job is supposed to include the handling of prisoners.

I say we find all those others who have served at GITMO and counter this a$$clown’s lies and exaggerations with the truth. I bet that when it comes down to it, there will be nobody who recalls him even being near any detainees.

If I see “Iraq Veterans Against The War”, that invalidates the source immediately. I’ve seen enough of those people at the Gathering of Eagles and outside Walter Reed to know what they are.

He could be the next John Kerry!

1. Guantanomo should be addressed as a geopolitical question rather than a question of abstract principal.

This means questions such as “should innocent people be detained” or “should people be abused during detention” should be subordinate to concerns of how to achieve such principals. Closing Gitmo will increase the detention of innocent people and will increase incidents of abuse worldwide.

2. People detained by the political agents of Gitmo have been treated far worse in a geopolitical sense

The recent treatment of the polish engineer detainee is illustrative:

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/worldnews/article-1139505/Horrifying-video-militants-beheading-Polish-engineer-released-Pakistani-Taliban.html

This is not to serve as a “justification” for any American abuses but as a clarifying question as to how released detainees would operate biopower in their new found realms.

3. Released detainees have returned to combat against US soldiers

4. Gitmo detainees are a tiny percentage of individuals detained on the battlefield— many more guilty go free.

5. Innocent til proven guilty is not a global construct and its strategic enforcement by advocacy groups is a deliberate effort to undermine global human dignity.

6. The lack of gitmo increases human rights abuses by:

encouraging killing in the field rather than detaining
increase the use of rendition
increase the use of surrogates
increase the use of isolationism as a foreign policy, leading to genocide

Naw, he just likes his fudge.

He was in the army for 5 years and only made specialist? If he was worth a crap, he should have been E-6 after 5 years.

Shocker: Leftist Anti-War Agitator And Veteran Accuses Military Of Abuse At Gitmo

I have spoken out against the Iraq war and took a stand when I was recalled in 2007 and refused to go back and I decided that I needed to tell my story about Guantanamo as well. How can I as a father tell my children to tell the truth and stand up for what they believe in if I was not willing to do the same?

Just another anti-war puke.

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Does he feel guilty about EATING a prisoner?

I remember David Hicks very clearly as, to me, he is one of the two most memorable detainees I came across. Due to him being able to communicate so clearly with us. And because he just reminded me of a guy I would have just gone out and have a beer with.

On 11 November 1999, Hicks travelled to Pakistan to study Islam and began training with Lashkar-e-Toiba in early 2000.

In January 2001, Hicks was provided with funding and an introductory letter from Lashkar-e-Toiba. He then travelled to Afghanistan to attend training at Al-Qaeda camps.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/David_Hicks#Lashkar-e-Toiba

The latest from Lashkar-e-Toiba was the 2008 Mumbai massacre. Nice bunch.

You could go have a beer with 'em. And then get beheaded, no doubt.

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He's not only a porker, he's dumber than a box of rocks.

http://ivaw.org/member/brandon-neely

Looks like Piggy from Lord of the Flies, or the butterball kid from the Goonies.

I bet this is the fat little butterball during an FTX:

Original article is at http://houston.indymedia.org/news/2008/12/65875.php Print comments.

Antiwar US Vets Support Israeli Military Objectors
by Brandon Neely Thursday, Dec. 18, 2008 at 2:57 PM
bneely27@gmail.com

Statement signed by over two dozen U.S. military war resisters. Reprinted by AlterNet, Democracy Now, The Progressive, Common Dreams, Indymedia, and Daily Kos.

We are U.S. military servicemembers and veterans who have refused or are currently refusing to fight in Iraq and Afghanistan.

We stand in solidarity with the Israeli Shministim (Hebrew for "12th graders") who are also resisting military service. About 100 Israeli high school students have signed an open letter declaring their refusal to serve in the Israeli army and their opposition to "Israeli occupation and oppression policy in the occupied territories and the territories of Israel." In Israel, military service is mandatory for all graduating high school seniors, and resisters face the possibility of years in prison.

We have also refused to participate in unjust acts of military aggression, and many of us have gone to prison or currently live with that possibility as a result. We believe that resistance to unjust war is a bold assertion of humanity in the face of overwhelming violence.

The Global War on Terror, like the Israeli occupation, is propped up by racism and dehumanization and sets the stage for never-ending war and occupation. We are inspired by the brave refusal of our brothers and sisters in Israel to take part in these destructive policies, and we want to let them know today, December 18th--the day of international solidarity with the Shministim--that they have our deepest respect and support.

In Solidarity,

Stephanie Atkinson
Specialist, US Army Reserve. Went AWOL October 1990 to resist Gulf War deployment. Discharged in lieu of courts martial.

Chris Capps-Schubert
Specialist, US Army, communications. Went AWOL March 2007 to resist Afghanistan deployment. Discharged in lieu of courts martial.

Eugene Cherry
Specialist, US Army, medic. Went AWOL June 2005 to resist Iraq redeployment, later won honorable discharge.

Matthis Chiroux
Sergeant, US Army, journalist. Currently refusing Inactive Ready Reserve recall.

James Circello
Sergeant, US Army, airborne infantry. Went AWOL April 2007 following Iraq deployment. Discharged in lieu of courts martial.

Carl Davison
US Army, security. Refused Iraq deployment in 2008. Served one month in the brig.

Matthew Edwards
US Marine Corps. Resisted Iraq deployment and was discharged March 2003.

Stephen Funk
Lance Corporal, US Marine Corps, logistical support. Went AWOL February 2003 to resist Iraq deployment. Served six months in the brig.

Andrew Gorby
Second Lieutenant, US Army, infantry. Discharged May 2007 as a conscientious objector.

Patrick Hart
Sergeant, US Army. Went AWOL in 2005 to resist Iraq deployment and has lived in Canada since.

Ryan Johnson
Private Second Class, US Army. Went AWOL January 2005 to resist Iraq deployment and currently lives in Canada.

Dale Landry
Senior Airman, US Air Force. Went AWOL in 2007 following Afghanistan deployment and has lived in Canada since.

Benjamin Lewis
US Marine Corps, mortar man. After two Iraq deployments, now refusing Inactive Ready Reserve recall.

Robin Long
Specialist, US Army. Went AWOL in June 2005 to resist Iraq deployment and lived in Canada until being deported July 2008. Currently serving a 14 month sentence at the Miramar Naval Brig near San Diego, California.

Christopher Magaoay
Lance Corporal, US Marine Corps. Went AWOL in 2006 to resist Iraq deployment and has lived in Canada since.

Camilo Mejia
Staff Sergeant, Army National Guard. Refused to redeploy to Iraq in 2004. Served nine months in the stockade.

Geoff Millard
Sergeant, Army National Guard. Went AWOL and later discharged following 2005 Iraq deployment.

Brandon Neely
US Army, military police. Refused recall from the Inactive Ready Reserve in 2007.

Perry O'Brien
US Army, medic. Discharged as a conscientious objector November 2004 following Afghanistan deployment.

Jeff Paterson
Corporal, US Marine Corps, artillery control. Refused Desert Storm deployment August 1990. Served two months pre-trial confinement. Discharged in lieu of courts martial.

Ryan Souza
Senior Airman, US Air Force, crew chief. Applied for conscientious objector discharge July 2008. Awaiting decision on his application by the military.

Chanan Suarezdiaz
Hospital Corpsman, Third Class, US Navy. Discharged following 2004 Iraq deployment.

Benjamin Viges
US Army, airborne infantry. Discharged as a conscientious objector following 2003 Iraq deployment.

Dean Walcott
US Marine Corps, military police. Went AWOL in 2007 following Iraq deployment and has lived in Canada since.

David Wiggins MD
Captain, US Army, doctor. Resigned commission near the Iraq border during Desert Storm 1991.

Steve Yoczik
Private, US Army. Went AWOL November 2006 to resist Iraq deployment and has lived in Canada since.

Upon arrival, detainees were screamed at throughout the whole process. They were told to shut up, walk faster, and what not. Some guards would call them "Sand N-ggers." I never heard that phrase until I was at Guantanamo.

My BS detector went off on this one. He graduated high school in 1998 and finished Army boot camp at age 20-21. Served tour in Egypt and arrived in Gitmo in 2002. Plus, his dad is a retired Army master sergeant and he was from Huntsville, Texas -- and he never heard that term before?

I didn't think the Army took deaf guys.

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"...now works as a law enforcement officer in the Houston area.

Security guard?