SamSaid!

GITMO

     The big media people and others on the left side of the political spectrum are bound and determined to make the Guantanamo military prison a big issue and paint the US Army as the bad guys. Here we have a group  –  200-300 raghead terrorists who are motivated to kill Americans, and all we hear about is so-called prisoner abuse. The remedy?? Close Gitmo.

    For sure, Gitmo has been the focal point of world attention for 3+ years. If there is one Military prison in the world where high level attention is focused, it is Gitmo. The people running the prison KNOW that their every move will be scrutinized by the hostile press – -  every day. They KNOW they have to be extra special in handling the prisoners  — no matter what the provocation. They KNOW that the Koran  — right or wrong  — is a hot button issue.  And with military discipline, they guards explicitly know what they can do and what they can't do. And every little bit of questionable conduct is magnified 100 times (New York Times?)

     Conceded, there are people who for various motives or beliefs oppose the Iraqi War. But it stretches credulity to exaggerate issues just to buttress that belief. They are firmly committed to the idea that anything to discredit George Bush is OK. Fair game for them is to discredit the President and ignore the positive aspects of the newly founded Iraqi nation. And in doing all this, they jump on so-called prisoner abuse at Guantanamo to condemn the President, the Army,  the Defense Department, the Soldiers, —  and casually ignore suicide bombings and the slaughter of civilians by the cohorts of the Gitmo captives.  By my thinking, something is badly remiss here.

     I just don't buy the idea that these Gitmo prisoners were just innocent souls who were swept off the streets and labelled “terrorists”. They have no uniforms, they represent no State, and they have no compunction in killing civilians. I would have no problem about closing Guantanamo if they would take all the prisoners, put them on a boat, and then sink it somewhere in the Persian Gulf.

    Decapitating captives is just one of those unfortunate incidents that happen in a war. Ho-hum.  But soiling the Koran?? Now there is a REAL issue. Everybody got that??