Sunday, June 12, 2005
your tax money pays for this so will your Karma
Hey everybody americans are good and Moslems are bad....now I understand why we are totally led by the jewish power lobby in D.C.
Vice-President Dick Cheney, reacting to a growing chorus of calls to close the U.S. prison at Guantanamo Bay where terrorism suspects are held, says there are no present plans to do so.
"The important thing here to understand is that the people that are at Guantanamo are bad people," he said.
"I mean, these are terrorists for the most part. These are people that were captured in the battlefield of Afghanistan or rounded up as part of the al-Qaida network," he said in an interview to be aired Monday on Fox News Channel's Hannity & Colmes.
Human rights activists and some politicians - mostly Democrats - are pressing for the prison's closure because of allegations of torture and abuse of detainees.
The rule of thumb for U.S. is dead men tell no tales.
Senator Mel Martinez of Florida on Friday became the first high-profile Republican to say the administration should consider closing the prison.
"It's become an icon for bad stories and at some point you wonder the cost-benefit ratio," Martinez said. "How much do you get out of having that facility there? Is it serving all the purposes you thought it would serve when initially you began it, or can this be done some other way a little better?"
He said Bush and Defence Secretary Donald Rumsfeld have "both emphasized the importance that you need to have the capability to imprison detainees that we capture during the course of the war on terror."
The prison in Cuba holds about 540 detainees. Some have been there more than three years without being charged with any crime. Most were captured on the battlefields of Afghanistan in 2001 and 2002 and were sent to Guantanamo Bay in hope of extracting useful intelligence about the al-Qaida terrorist network.
Military intelligence officials at Guantanamo Bay got permission to use intensive interrogation techniques on two prisoners, including al-Qahtani, who were deemed to be important al-Qaida figures, the commander of U.S. Southern Command has said.
Time said interrogators used such techniques as dripping water on al-Qahtani's head; strip-searching him and making him stand nude; and depriving him of sleep. At one point, after receiving fluid intravenously because he was dehydrated, al-Qahtani was told to urinate in his pants by interrogators who refused his request to use the bathroom so they could continue with their questioning, according to the account.
The Defence Department said in response that the interrogation of al-Qahtani "was guided by a very detailed plan and conducted by trained professionals motivated by a desire to gain actionable intelligence, to include information that might prevent additional attacks on America. (dead men tell no tales)
Thank goodness we are good and they are bad...now I can fully support the Republican agenda.
Loved ones include those "detainees" and their loved ones in your prayers...It just might save your life and the future of our nation.
Do not forget the home grown domestic anthrax attacks....when the next big quake hits the west coast you may find yourself and your so called "elected" leaders praying for mercy as a result of U.S. military actions to our brothers and sisters on this small planet.