11-07-2004, 04:24 PM
Occhidiangela,Nov 5 2004, 10:10 PM Wrote:The Gitmo situation still gets attention on US TV, and in print media. It has since shortly after it was chosen as a method. The Civil Liberties folks in the US had, and still have, an objection to the process.
You also forget just who it is that was corraled and sent there. Captured enemy combatants from a war, and their accomplices. A war that is still being fought in Afghanistan -- last I checked, Taliban and Al Qaeda are s till fighting, and certainly operatives have not surrendured, unlike Admiral Doenitz and friends, who signed formal surrender documents in May 1945. This is a kind of war that most people, in and out of the military, still don't understand. It is very much NOT the war of Nuremburg in character, it's something else altogether.
Occhi
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Guantanomo to me is just another tool from Bush to shows that he is so hard and cool, in kicking some terrorist but. At the same time nobody cares that he switched most of his army from trying to get Bin Laden to Iraq instead.
We have here a junta (I like the word for the Bush administration) that does things against terrorism only when american voters are there to see it. I have to stand 4 hours in a queue in my underpants if I want to fly to the US and at the same time Bush gives extremists he created himself (the Iraqi) people explosives and nuclear material. He was able to trick the US people in believing that he is "the best" against terrorism while he willingly let Bin laden escape just becuase Rumsfeld and friends found it a better idea to go to Iraq. (he learned that from his fathers treatment of Saddam)
So adding up: after 4 years of Bush we have more terrorists, more extremists, the same amount of Iraqi civilians killed as Saddam in 20 years, Bin Laden still on the loose, a divided world and my stock that goes down :blink:
It seems that we cannot get another than republicans in charge in the US, america is going towards a very big economic crisis and is in a while one of the few country with WMDs. I think I'm going to do some heavy digging in my garden...I want a bomb shelter.