Comments on: Judge orders Bush administration to release five Gitmo detainees.

By: MapleStreet

MapleStreet — Fri, 21 Nov 2008 03:18:39 +0000

NPR reported tonight that the evidence on the 5 released consisted purely of unsubstantiated allegation (Brings to mind that some people turned in their neighbors in order to collect the reward.)

Additionally, the ruling judge wasn’t some hippie, commie, pinko, constructionist judge. Rather it was the same judge who ruled that they didn’t have standing to have the courts review their potential. A conservative.

By: dixie blood

dixie blood — Fri, 21 Nov 2008 01:15:44 +0000

I hope our new President will keep Gitmo open.

And there will be just 2 detainees.

GW Botch.

And Dick(head) Chenney.

By: EugeneDebs

EugeneDebs — Fri, 21 Nov 2008 00:04:16 +0000

So when will the wingnuts show up, outraged, and tell us these guys are going to eat our children and rape our pets?

By: ElBruce

ElBruce — Thu, 20 Nov 2008 22:51:33 +0000

Kids are going to read about this in history books right along with Japanese internment camps and the Trail of Tears.

Let’s wrap this up and then start a “never again” movement for it, ‘k?

By: FaireMaiden

FaireMaiden — Thu, 20 Nov 2008 22:32:40 +0000

Hey… does this qualify as a ‘war crime’ or a ‘crime against humanity’? What is the legal precedence for holding them for seven years and then releasing on insufficient evidence? Can Bush, Cheney, Rumsfeld just get away with: ‘Ooops, sorry ’bout that’?

Does anyone know?

By: WaltTheMan

WaltTheMan — Thu, 20 Nov 2008 21:53:44 +0000

In my mind the Gitmo operation has not only been a burden to the detainees, but also to all Americans. At this point in time, we can not yet determine when this blot on our national honor will end. The Civil War is still nipping at our heels after about 145 years. The Sunnis and the Shiites have been at it for over a millennium.

By: StratRat

StratRat — Thu, 20 Nov 2008 21:53:34 +0000

This is a stain that will take decades to wash out – if even then. We have fallen so far from grace…

By: impeachcheneythenbush

impeachcheneythenbush — Thu, 20 Nov 2008 21:51:24 +0000

From the Glenn Grenwald article linked above:

When they were detained in 2001 in Bosnia, the Bush administration claimed that they were plotting to bomb the U.S. embassy in Sarajevo. But once they were shipped to Guantanamo, the U.S. backed off that accusation and instead claimed they intended to travel to Afghanistan to fight against the U.S.

The five men ordered released today have been imprisoned in a cage by the Bush administration for 7 straight years without being charged with any crimes and without there being any credible evidence that they did anything wrong. If the members of Congress who voted for the Military Commissions Act had their way (see them here and here), or if the four Supreme Court Justice in the Boumediene minority had theirs, the Bush administration would nonetheless have been empowered to keep them encaged indefinitely, for the rest of their lives if desired, without ever having to charge them with any crime or allow them to step foot into a courtroom to petition for habeas corpus.

In addition to every Republican Senator (except Chafee), those voting to authorize that repellent power include Jay Rockefeller, Ken Salazar, Tom Carper, Ben and Bill Nelson, Debbie Stabenow, and Joe Lieberman.

I’d trade Chafee any day for my Florida Senator, Bill Nelson. Please note that Nelson was one of four “whips” working to save Lieberman’s behind in the Senate the other day. The other three were Salazar, Carper and Dodd.

By: spencers mom

spencers mom — Thu, 20 Nov 2008 21:40:39 +0000

May I suggest that these prisoners be immediately replaced with Bush, Cheney, Rumsfeld, Rove and Gonzales? We’ll call it a swap – the release on innocents for the incarceration of criminals.

PEACE

By: Buckie Boy

Buckie Boy — Thu, 20 Nov 2008 21:38:16 +0000

And just how pissed off would you be if this happened to you?

Really, really PO’d…if they weren’t terrorists they sure as hell are now.

Great Job there WAR CRIMINAL Bush, nice bit of work you’ve done for the country.

By: Keith H.

Keith H. — Thu, 20 Nov 2008 21:36:42 +0000

Five detainees out, five members of the bush admin. in.

By: 00mpp00

00mpp00 — Thu, 20 Nov 2008 21:28:20 +0000

It’s all on Obama now to follow through with at least one campaign promise made to progressives and officially close Gitmo. Maybe even blow it up…

http://www.sunstateactivist.org/ssablog/

By: Chuck Feney

Chuck Feney — Thu, 20 Nov 2008 21:14:26 +0000

If the 5 Algerians didn’t hate us for our freedoms then, they surely do now. Heckuva job Bushie!

By: Leftside Annie

Leftside Annie — Thu, 20 Nov 2008 21:10:36 +0000

“Grotesque injustice”…?

Those two words could be used to describe the entire Bush presidency.

I feel sick.

By: Uncle Ho

Uncle Ho — Thu, 20 Nov 2008 21:06:11 +0000

Bush to court: MAKE ME! I’M the Decider.

By: MCMetal

MCMetal — Thu, 20 Nov 2008 21:01:43 +0000

As if I needed anyone , much less a federal judge , to tell me that the Bush administration cannot be trusted when it comes to anyone or anything ?