Sunday, June 11, 2006
Stop the presses! It was only a 'stunt' to get attention!
Okay, think about this for a moment... You're country has just been illegally invaded by a superpower and after the initial bombings of your country stop, you come out of your home to meet the enemy (hey, these people are in your country and have illegally invaded! Of course they are your enemy!) and you're suddenly grabbed by a couple of the occupying soldiers who then sends you to a prison camp in a land you're unfamiliar with, all because you decided you wanted to protect your country. When you get to this strange prison, you're stripped, beaten, interrogated, tortured, all the while no one is telling you why you are there. Six months goes by, one year goes by, three years go by and by the fourth year, you're now delusional because you've been kept in a cage for years and have been eating food that is foreign to you and you wonder how your family is doing. No one tells you anything about the outside world. You feel alone and you know deep down inside, you would defend your country again from the enemy because you love it! But you know it doesn't matter any more. You want out. You're tired of feeling tired. Eventually, your mind slips into madness and you decide one day to stop eating because that is the only control at this point that you have. The enemy guards taunt you, beat you, and resort to incredible behavior to get you to eat, but you refuse to, because you want to just be heard! Starving to be heard! You know you're not part of a larger network of people who want to destroy your enemy....you know that this is all happening because you love your country! You were one person who took a stand against a superpower! You didn't shoot a gun, you didn't curse the enemy, and you didn't hook up with others to retaliate. Nope, you came out of your house and met the enemy in your neighborhood. At some point, you hear the enemy guards laughing and joking about a man named al-Zarqawi (which is an unfamiliar name to you because you've been locked up for years) and because of the reaction of the soldiers, you know he was important. You hear he has been killed by enemy fire. They're high-fiving each other and you realize you're alone again. You look at your enemy and cringe at their exuberant outbursts and you realize this is your last chance to be heard. You think to yourself... what is better...watching your enemy revel in the killing of someone who hates your enemy as much as you do or taking your own life now because you crave the need for control and want to get away from it all? You know you will die without seeing another member of your family, but you know deep down, your family is fighting the same fight as you did. It gives you a sense of peace. It feels good. You and a couple other inmates decide to commit suicide together. You grab the sheet from the cot you've hated for years now and rip the fabric, tie it around your neck, and start the climb to the cage pole to tie the other end. "Freedom at last...", you think to yourself before you jump.... ************************* The military is calling the suicides of three Guantamano Bay prisoners as a 'stunt'. Are they freaking serious!?! What has our nation become! A nation of uncaring, hateful, warmongering, barbarian bigots? I'm starting to think so! I know I can't speak for any prisoner in the GITMO prison, but I can put myself in his shoes to feel what it must have been like for the past 4-5 years. Americans like myself have felt helpless too, so I can only imagine for a moment what it must be like for all of them. No charges have ever been filed against any of the prisoners and there never will be either. Bush plans to keep them there (plus we have other prisoners in other prisons across the planet!) indefinately. How does Bush sleep at night?
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"all because you decided you wanted to protect your country"....
except that, most of the guys picked up just so happened to be NOT AFGHANI at all, so it's not like it was THEIR country to begin with.
They were in a foreign country (Afghanistan) training to be terrorists with the specific aim of later infiltrating into the USA or EU to attack civilians. They weren't there on vacation, and they weren't training to be doctors.
Secondly, all were picked up ON THE BATTLEFIELD, not just walking out of their homes. If we were such meenies, we'd have just shot them then and there. Instead, we took them into custody to interrogate them....and why? Well because dipstick Klinton gutted our HUMIT capability during the 1990's such that we didn't have any spies within Al Qaeda so needed all the inside info we could get in 2001. Apparently the Left has no viable alternative to getting such inside info so you're content to just complain about things...
Third, if you pick up an armed combatant who is not officially part of a state's army (non-Afghani, not Taliban) what you have is a person who DOESN'T FALL INTO GENEVA CONVENTION categories. Hence the unusual detention. Also, Afghanistan never signed the Geneva Convention - and since Al Qaeda is a non-state organization, it's not a signatory either. Ergo, the USA doesn't have a legal obligation to treat their men as POWs at all.
Regardless, Gitmo is a hellava lot better than virtually any OTHER prison on earth outside the USA. Categorically better health care, food, shelter, and religious respect than these guys would receive if they were repatriated to their own countries of Yemen, Egypt, Saudi Arabia, etc.
Our boys were kept in Vietnamese prisons for up to 8 years without committing suicide. But you seem to actually like these GITMO guys -think they're heroes or something, well, what (aside from being bullies, cowards, and sexist pigs) have they done that's 'heroic'?
except that, most of the guys picked up just so happened to be NOT AFGHANI at all, so it's not like it was THEIR country to begin with.
They were in a foreign country (Afghanistan) training to be terrorists with the specific aim of later infiltrating into the USA or EU to attack civilians. They weren't there on vacation, and they weren't training to be doctors.
Secondly, all were picked up ON THE BATTLEFIELD, not just walking out of their homes. If we were such meenies, we'd have just shot them then and there. Instead, we took them into custody to interrogate them....and why? Well because dipstick Klinton gutted our HUMIT capability during the 1990's such that we didn't have any spies within Al Qaeda so needed all the inside info we could get in 2001. Apparently the Left has no viable alternative to getting such inside info so you're content to just complain about things...
Third, if you pick up an armed combatant who is not officially part of a state's army (non-Afghani, not Taliban) what you have is a person who DOESN'T FALL INTO GENEVA CONVENTION categories. Hence the unusual detention. Also, Afghanistan never signed the Geneva Convention - and since Al Qaeda is a non-state organization, it's not a signatory either. Ergo, the USA doesn't have a legal obligation to treat their men as POWs at all.
Regardless, Gitmo is a hellava lot better than virtually any OTHER prison on earth outside the USA. Categorically better health care, food, shelter, and religious respect than these guys would receive if they were repatriated to their own countries of Yemen, Egypt, Saudi Arabia, etc.
Our boys were kept in Vietnamese prisons for up to 8 years without committing suicide. But you seem to actually like these GITMO guys -think they're heroes or something, well, what (aside from being bullies, cowards, and sexist pigs) have they done that's 'heroic'?
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: 6/14/2006 01:25:00 PM
: 6/14/2006 01:25:00 PM
BUSH CREATED THE WAR IN IRAQ! It was a war of choice so the least he could do is have some decency while his criminal warpig corporate whores rob out treasury because of this fake war! Get it moron? Of course you don't. You're stupid.
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