June 11, 2006

Just Good 'Ol Boys, Never Meanin' No Harm

The Pentagon releases the names of the three terrorists who took a long drop at the end of a short rope.

Read the whole article. It's kinda funny. It painstakingly outlines the egregious hand-wringing going on about this non-event.

It's simple. We are in a war. Club Gitmo is a POW camp. A POW camp is where Prisoners Of War are held. All the ridiculous carping about people being held without trial is just that. Ridiculous.

It should also be noted that many detainees released from Gitmo have cheerfully returned to their chosen avocation of trying to kill as many Americans as possible.

If you really want to read a howler, check out this editorial from a month ago in the Yemen Observer. You know Yemen, that country that sets the standards for humane incarceration in the world. That's like Tony Soprano lecturing Jack Bauer that he should stop killing people.

Muslihoon says "shut it down." Tongue firmly in cheek, of course.

Posted by: Vinnie at 11:19 PM | Comments (2) | Add Comment
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1 Turn all terrorists over to the Japanese. I hear they would bayonet them to death. What's good enough for a GI. Is surely good enough for a terrorists fighting in someone elses country.

Posted by: greyrooster at June 12, 2006 10:33 AM (fDZgg)

2 Correct me if I am wrong but they don't even qualify as POWs because they do not fight under a visible symbol like a uniform and they do not obey the rules of war that are spelled out in the Geneva Convention which spells out the rights of POWs. They are militants (not civilian criminals) who didn't attempt to qualify for POW protection when they were on the battlefield. The reason they "fall through the cracks" of the legal system is that no one ever thought that being an terrorist who targets civilians was something worth protecting. We should keep it that way.

Posted by: Chuck the Lucky at June 12, 2006 07:02 PM (scKzN)

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