Abu Guantanamo

glenda in the land of oz: nice blog!


So the Pentagon is upset over the newly released pictures from Abu Ghraib? They think they will lead to further violence and further hatred of the United States. Well, duh! Maybe they should have worried about it before they allowed the torture to happen? Just what in the hell did they think would happen when they engaged in this totally unacceptable, illegal, disgusting, criminal, behavior? Oh, yeah, perhaps it wasn't the Pentagon. Maybe it was just the CIA. Has any CIA agent been held responsible for torture? Of course not. Will anyone of them be? Highly unlikely. Was the torture just the result of a few "bad apples" (enlisted men and women). Nonsense. It was allowed and encouraged by the highest levels of the administration, however subtley or indirectly. Will any of them be held accountable? Equally unlikely.

Virtually the entire world has now spoken and said that Guantanamo should be closed immediately and the unfortunates being held there should be given trials and either found guilty or released. It is also known that most of the prisoners there are almost surely innocent of any crimes against the United States. What goes on there cloaked in secrecy, almost certainly is in violation of the Constitution, American law, and International law. Where does it say anywhere that the President of the United States has divine rights? Where does it say he can arbitrarily, even whimsically, arrest and hold someone forever with no rights whatsoever? This is absurd on the face of it. Why was it allowed to happen in the first place? Apparently the United States is no longer a nation of laws, merely a dictatorship at the mercy of the President.