It seems the United Nations has issued a “report” calling for the immediate closure of the U.S. base at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, and the release of all the terrorists detainees residing there.
Reserving comment on the “United Nations” (oxymoron?) as an effective international body actually worth a fuck (pardon my french), let me just ask, “why it is, said body is calling for shutting down Gitmo?”
Answer…
But the U.N. report found that interrogation techniques authorized by the Department of Defense, “particularly if used simultaneously, amount to degrading treatment in violation of … the Convention against Torture.”
For example, indefinite periods of detention and prolonged solitary confinement amount to torture, the report said.
And it noted a “profound deterioration” in the mental health of many being held on the island. In 2003, more than 350 acts of self-harm were reported, along with individual and mass suicide attempts and hunger strikes, it said.
Oh well hell, now that makes complete sense!
I recall watching Bosnia back in ‘94, as the light blue beret wearing UN peacekeepers soiled their trousers because nobody had their back when they suddenly found themselves facing mean, evil, men with real guns. Then NATO quietly stepped up to the plate, replacing the light blue berets with kevlar helmets and real guns, locked and loaded, stating quite clearly to the world that the Emperor Has No Clothes.
I also recall reading this article about Gitmo not too long ago.
These “detainees” are not innocent foot soldiers, or confused Afghan opium farmers drafted by the Taliban. They are Islamic fundamentalists from across the Middle East, rabid jihadists who have dedicated their lives to the destruction of America and Western civilization. Among the residents are al-Qaeda organizers, bomb makers, financial specialists, recruiters of suicide attackers, and just plain killers. Many of these men met frequently with Osama bin Laden. The terrorist Maad Al Qahtani, a Saudi who is a self-confessed collaborator with the September 11 hijackers, is one of many infamous captives.
There’s more…
While we observed absolutely no evidence of torture of prisoners at Gitmo, it is clear that the daily atmosphere is rife with harsh abuse: The prisoners are constantly assaulting the guards.
Our young military men and women routinely endure the vilest invective imaginable, including death threats that spill over to guards’ families. All soldiers and sailors working “inside the wire” have blacked out their name tags so that the detainees will not learn their identities. Before that step was taken the terrorists were threatening to tell their al-Qaeda pals still at large who the guards were. “We will look you up on the Internet,” the prisoners said. “We will find you and slaughter you and your family in your homes at night. We will cut your throats like sheep. We will drink the blood of the infidel.”
That is bad enough, but the terrorist prisoners throw more than words at the guards. On a daily basis, American soldiers carrying out their duties within the maximum-security camp are barraged with feces, urine, semen, and spit hurled by the detainees. Secretly fashioned weapons intended for use in attacking guards or fellow detainees are confiscated regularly. When food or other items are passed through the “bean hole”—an opening approximately 4 inches by 24 inches in the cell doors, the detainees have grabbed at the wrists and arms of the Americans feeding them and tried to break their bones.
It certainly seems to me that the gottdamned emperor still has no clothes. In fact, I doubt that even if the rat bastards terrorists targeted the United Nations itself, would the dumb asses esteemed delegates of the UN change their tune on Gitmo.
I hesitate to state the obvious, but operations at Gitmo are about protecting America, period. The mission is about protecting Providence, Rhode Island; Ozark, Alabama; Queens Creek, Arizona; Barrow, Alaska; Southampton, New York; and Lynchburg, Virginia. I’m sure the dumb asses delegates at the UN were concerned about your town/city when they issued their report on Gitmo, all the while marveling at what the emperor was wearing.
Where are you from and what say you on closing Gitmo? Sgt Hook out.
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