Comments on: Ashcroft: Detaining Terror Suspects At Guantanamo Bay ‘Has Been A Humanitarian Act’

By: Brain From Planet Arous

Brain From Planet Arous — Sat, 13 Dec 2008 23:00:07 +0000

Jack Ass-Crack is a genuine psychotic, and should be paid no attention to.

He believes in Diabolical Naked Statues, The Evils of Dancing, and Calico Cats as The Embodiment of Demons!!

By: Rugby Reader

Rugby Reader — Sat, 13 Dec 2008 03:07:50 +0000

Ashcroft is not convincing anyone except the loyal bushie neocon kool-aid drinkers who mistakenly believe in Bush’s phony “war on terror” bullcrap.

By: MapleStreet

MapleStreet — Sat, 13 Dec 2008 02:58:14 +0000

And if we just dropped the bomb on Iraq, they would have been instantly vaporized and not experienced any pain or even fear. This would have been the most humanitarian act possible ????

By: impeachcheneythenbush

impeachcheneythenbush — Fri, 12 Dec 2008 21:45:56 +0000

He then meandered through the alternatives to detention, such as “kill[ing] everybody on the battlefield”

Problem being, of course, that the majority of detainees…at any time…were not captured on any battlefield, but turned over by bounty hunters. No doubt there’s some real “bad guys” in the lot, but most are innocent of any terrorist or actual combat activity. At least they were when they went in. If this happened to me, I’d probably be ready to go after the people that destroyed my life, if I was released. It’s no wonder the U.S. is afraid to release these people, either into the U.S. or other countries. We’ve always created our own monsters.

By: wiley

wiley — Fri, 12 Dec 2008 21:01:31 +0000

A lot of the detainees have tried to kill themselves and wish they had been killed on the spot. That the likes of Ashcroft feel free to spout about how “humanitarian” their evil is does not bode well for the world. It’s the mark of sociopathy–people are supposed to be grateful for the horror they suffer.

By: sacopenapa

sacopenapa — Fri, 12 Dec 2008 20:46:24 +0000

A humanitarian act would be the executuion of the War Criminals of this immoral adiministration, Asscroft included!

By: lvdragonlady

lvdragonlady — Fri, 12 Dec 2008 19:57:36 +0000

As opposed to what?
Killing them on the spot?

By: EugeneDebs

EugeneDebs — Fri, 12 Dec 2008 19:00:53 +0000

I guess in the same way as beating Ashcroft to death with a rubber chicken would be a humanitarian act by making the world a better place.

By: EugeneDebs

EugeneDebs — Fri, 12 Dec 2008 18:59:43 +0000

Perry logan Says:

Who says wingers don’t do irony?
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Oh they do irony all the time they just dont do INTENTIONAL irony. I think they have that gene removed at birth to FUNCTION as Republicans

By: pdennany

pdennany — Fri, 12 Dec 2008 18:38:42 +0000

I am still wondering how the alleged Middle Eastern terrorist conned their way into having access to the World Trade Center buildings to wire them with the demolition charges. Bush’s younger brother Marvin was in charge of WTC security prior to 9-11, why did he allow them? Then again, were any one of the so called terrorists demolition experts? That was a near perfect demolition job, but like the so-called hijackings, almost nothing agrees in the official scam story given by Bush and confirmed by the 9-11 Ommitions Commission. And as well, the suspect terrorist were tortured to require them to tell of their needed guilt, when they had nothing at all to do with 9-11. Our only hope of getting over the Bush years is to appoint a truly independant prosecuter to find out what really happened on Sept 11, 200l, that Ashcroft strangely avoided.

By: po

po — Fri, 12 Dec 2008 18:37:41 +0000

Amazing really. That people involved in this whole scheme, who KNOW that innocents have sat for years there just for being in the wrong place at the wrong time, can say this with a straight face is just amazing.

If everyone in Gitmo had taken a shot at his family, perhaps I cut him some slack (doubt it, but hey, I don’t want Americans getting killed anymore than the next American, I just think we shouldn’t send them places where that’s about all that will happen so someone can earn a short term profit). But that’s not the case. And he knows it.

By: upnorth

upnorth — Fri, 12 Dec 2008 18:31:33 +0000

Ahh just read the update. Cancelled the Cat scan. Turns out it was the political figure with the hallucinogenic drugs in his system and not me with tumors.

Whew that was a close one!

By: upnorth

upnorth — Fri, 12 Dec 2008 18:29:27 +0000

Just got back from the blood work lab. Apparently I do not have any LSD, or other hallucinogenic drugs, in my system. I have an appointment later to have a CAT scan to make sure I have no tumors causing the delusions my doctors say I am having, after reading this article.

My doctors are quite concerned about the hallucinations that some political figure is saying that unlimited detention without charge and torture were “Humanitarian Acts.”

God I hope I am OK! I’m scared!

By: tballou

tballou — Fri, 12 Dec 2008 18:03:48 +0000

And what exactly is this “collective wisdom of mankind” BS?

By: Keith H.

Keith H. — Fri, 12 Dec 2008 17:55:29 +0000

I wonder if any of these people are having second thoughts about their actions in recent years since Mcjohn didn’t win the election.

By: lzcrmc

lzcrmc — Fri, 12 Dec 2008 17:48:15 +0000

“ASHCROFT: You know I’ve got a son who’s a naval officer and he spent two tours of duty in the Gulf so our family is not in favor of releasing people once they have been captured so they can take another shot at our family but there are people who say to do that.”

By that logic, if Ashcroft’s son were captured, he would be OK with the Taliban or Al Quaeda – or whoever we’re fighting – holding him indefinitely … as a humanitarian act, of course.

This also makes me wonder (again) about exactly how “stunningly” bad Bush’s anti terror/surveillance program had to be for this miserable excuse for a human being to refuse to sign off on it.

By: Mugsy

Mugsy — Fri, 12 Dec 2008 17:38:14 +0000

Can anyone say: “Gilded cage”?

These feux-moralists make me sick.

By: fletc3her

fletc3her — Fri, 12 Dec 2008 17:21:08 +0000

I get so sick of these bald faced lies. How can you reconcile all the reports of atrocities at Guantanamo Bay with this happy talk? You can’t. Ashcroft has redefined “humanitarian” to include TORTURE. I doubt there is any hope for his soul.

By: barfly

barfly — Fri, 12 Dec 2008 16:51:39 +0000

So I think detaining people, removing them from the stream of battle by the collective wisdom of mankind, has been a humanitarian act in terms of war circumstances.

A kinder, gentler, White Man’s Burden.

At least he isn’t calling them wogs.

By: 5th Estate

5th Estate — Fri, 12 Dec 2008 16:45:18 +0000

ASHCROFT: You know I’ve got a son who’s a naval officer and he spent two tours of duty in the Gulf so our family is not in favor of releasing people once they have been captured so they can take another shot at our family but there are people who say to do that.

Right. As a Naval Officer floating around the Persian Gulf Ashcroft’s son is totally at risk from all those Gitmo guys who were captured in landlocked Afghanistan before Ashcroft Junior went anywhere.

And speaking of not going anywhere and not getting shot-at, let’s not forget that Ashcroft managed a record SEVEN deferments during Vietnam, but still found time to run for political office.