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defrogYr outrageous headline of the day is:
What’s outrageous, of course, is that this isn’t news, and hasn't been for at least six years.
I’d go on, but what’s the point? It’s not like Bush, Cheney and Rumsfeld are EVER going to be investigated for this or anything else, and too many people share their fear-driven Whatever It Takes value system.
“Would I round up hundreds of innocent people and detain them without charges for years to catch one guilty terrorist? Fuck yes I would, and if you don’t support that, you support al Qaeda. Besides, if they’re all innocent, what are they doing in Gitmo, huh?”
Because 9/11 changed everything, see?
How do you sleep,
This is dF
The accusations were made by Lawrence Wilkerson, a top aide to Colin Powell, the former Republican Secretary of State, in a signed declaration to support a lawsuit filed by a Guantánamo detainee. It is the first time that such allegations have been made by a senior member of the Bush Administration.
He claimed that the former Vice-President and Defence Secretary knew that the majority of the initial 742 detainees sent to Guantánamo in 2002 were innocent but believed that it was “politically impossible to release them”.
He also claimed that one reason Mr Cheney and Mr Rumsfeld did not want the innocent detainees released was because “the detention efforts would be revealed as the incredibly confused operation that they were”. This was “not acceptable to the Administration and would have been severely detrimental to the leadership at DoD [Mr Rumsfeld at the Defence Department]”.
He claimed that the former Vice-President and Defence Secretary knew that the majority of the initial 742 detainees sent to Guantánamo in 2002 were innocent but believed that it was “politically impossible to release them”.
He also claimed that one reason Mr Cheney and Mr Rumsfeld did not want the innocent detainees released was because “the detention efforts would be revealed as the incredibly confused operation that they were”. This was “not acceptable to the Administration and would have been severely detrimental to the leadership at DoD [Mr Rumsfeld at the Defence Department]”.
What’s outrageous, of course, is that this isn’t news, and hasn't been for at least six years.
I’d go on, but what’s the point? It’s not like Bush, Cheney and Rumsfeld are EVER going to be investigated for this or anything else, and too many people share their fear-driven Whatever It Takes value system.
“Would I round up hundreds of innocent people and detain them without charges for years to catch one guilty terrorist? Fuck yes I would, and if you don’t support that, you support al Qaeda. Besides, if they’re all innocent, what are they doing in Gitmo, huh?”
Because 9/11 changed everything, see?
How do you sleep,
This is dF
