Real quick, let me list some events in U.S. history that are shameful. The Salem Witch Trials. The subjugation of American Indians. Slavery. The internment of Japanese-Americans during WWII. The Mai-Lai Massacre. Kent State. Abu-Grahib. That's all I can think of right now. I'm sure there are more.
Oh, wait! I remember another one. Remember the time that we caught a group of German Nazi saboteurs in the U.S. during WWII? Up in Maine, I think. Anyway, when they were caught, President Roosevelt had them locked up real tight, declared them enemies of the state, and put them in front of military tribunals real fast. Naturally, they were found guilty, and were executed right away.
What a travesty of justice that was! So shameful!
Right... They got what they had coming.
Now, I know there are differences between the status of those Germans and that of the enemy combatants at Gitmo. But they are technical differences, and to draw distinctions too finely obscures the issue rather than helping to define it. The similarities are far more important, and so obvious that I won't insult you by describing them.
Gitmo is the perfect place for them. I hope they all die and rot there. No vacations to New York. No repatriations to Yemen. Treat them like the Nazis they are.
I have a tee shirt that says "I'd rather be waterboarding"...kinda says it all for me!
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