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Originally Posted by beachwalker
Then I mentioned that 8 or so congressman went down to review the "atrocities" (a cross section of parties mind you) and we have heard nary peep from the press since.
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I wouldn't say that's true at all. Tell me there hasn't been plenty of reporting on GITMO since???
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I think when they saw the air conditioning many of the leftists shut up.
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Do you have to be a leftist to be critical of GITMO? Don't think so, in fact it's an observation any pragmatic person can make regardless of idiology.
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how soon people forgot about 9/11 and Madrid and began criticising again....
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I love how it always comes back to the "remember 9/11" mantra. Does 9/11 weaken the US Constitution? Does it give us freedom to ignore our own laws?
If the Founding Fathers were aware the US Government was secretly detaining large numbers of people without charge they would be rolling in their graves.
We're not talking about the specific interrogation of known terrorists, it's the wholesale rounding up of anyone we choose, then putting them through hell to see if they just might know anything...
I think most Americans find the interrogation techniques permitted and at times endorsed by the Administration to be quite un-American and patently dehumanizing, often abusive and sometimes even torture.
This isn't my America, and if 9/11 made it so, then you have just given Bin Laden another victory.
-spence