Posted on 03/19/2009 3:08:12 PM PDT by pissant
SAN JUAN, Puerto Rico Many detainees locked up at Guantanamo were innocent men swept up by U.S. forces unable to distinguish enemies from noncombatants, a former Bush administration official said Thursday. "There are still innocent people there," Lawrence B. Wilkerson, a Republican who was chief of staff to then-Secretary of State Colin Powell, told The Associated Press. "Some have been there six or seven years."
Wilkerson, who first made the assertions in an Internet posting on Tuesday, told the AP he learned from briefings and by communicating with military commanders that the U.S. soon realized many Guantanamo detainees were innocent but nevertheless held them in hopes they could provide information for a "mosaic" of intelligence.
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A$$hat. What did you do to right this ‘wrong’ when you could have. *spit*
Never heard of the pencilneck until Rush spoke about him today. When does his book tour start?
Not sure, but any “republican” that goes onto MSNBC for any other reason than to slap the marxists down is really a democrat. Yes, that means you Frum, Hagel, Megan McCain, etc etc
Ah, the smell of bull$h|t.
Looks like we have located another terrorist supporter or facilitator.
The only real errors of judgement Bush had was keeping anyone from the Clinton administration. That includes Powell, who later turned out to be as pathetic as Weasel Clark. It appears that although the Army enlisted are solid citizens, selection process for senior enlisted folks is very solid, their officer corps it filled with some pathetic cases at the O-7 and above level. I have run into several Army General Officers over the years and although they have the mannerisms of leaders (All the same “mannerisms” by the way), I could never trust their judgement. I hope I do not offend pissant as this word is what I usually refer to Weasel Clark as. Rhodes scholar? O bullshiite....
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