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June 12, 2005
Al-Reuters, On The Ball As Usual...
I followed the AOL headline story to this little gem by Randall Mikkelsen of Reuters (emphases emphatically mine):
Some Bush administration officials want to close the facility to end a debate over allegations of prisoner abuse, U.S. Rep. Duncan Hunter, chairman of the House of Representatives Armed Services Committee, told "Fox News Sunday."
The military detention camp for terrorism suspects has been criticized as a modern "gulag" by Amnesty International, and it has become a hated symbol for many Muslims.
"I think they're divided. I think ... some members of the White House have come to the conclusion that the legend is different than the fact," said Hunter, a California Republican.
"And when that's the case, you go with the legend that somehow Guantanamo has been a place of abuse. And you close it down and you shorten the stories, you shorten the heated debate and you get if off the table and you move on," he said.
So Mr. Mikkelsen is repeating the scurrilous assertion that Gitmo is a "gulag", with a straight face I gather. This is ludicrous on the face of it; I'm not going to bother with linking to all the refutations of this impotent claim.
Now we find that Rep. Hunter "thinks"...what? That "they're divided"? Exactly what is the basis for your "thinking"? And from this rather liquid assertion we get the conclusion, "And when that's the case [is it really?], you go with the legend that somehow Guantanomo has been a place of abuse." Oh really? Who says, "...you go with the legend"? And how are you defining abuse? Repeat after me: Forcing these bastards into uncomfortable situations is not torture. Fraternity initiations, not to mention Marine Corps boot camp undoubtedly feature the same, if not worse.
As usual the question is: "Whose side are you on?"
This piece is like crashing on your mountain bike off a rocky trail into poison ivy: you lose a lot of skin, and on top of the scrapes you get an ugly rash. Rep. Hunter seems to not have a clue, and with material like that, our Reuters correspondent was thankful for an easy day's work.
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You know what I think? I think these reps are intimidated by the MSM and cannot stomach standing up to them. Closing GITMO would do nothing except send a surrender flag for the world to see. Not going to happen. The abuses at GITMO were made up by terrorists trained to make them up. The abuses to the Koran - which, being a book, is not covered by the Geneva conventions, which do not apply anyway - were done by the terrorist inmates themselves.
Lord save us from these distracted liberals and wobbly conservatives.
Posted by: AJStrata at June 13, 2005 09:51 AM
