Monday, December 19, 2005
Oh, Sweet Condi
In response to a question from Andrea Mitchell on “Hardball” this evening, about recent accusations made by 8 detainees at Guantanamo Bay, that they were tortured in a US run secret prison in Afghanistan – a claim supported by Human Rights Watch - Condi had this to say while shedding (as she should) the key point (the torture part of it) and instead focusing on this alternative version of “Catch and Release”:

Well Andrea, lets be realistic here, we have a choice; we pick up people on the battle field clearly engaged in activities against either American forces or terrorist activities or with links to terrorist organizations. We can either hold them or we can let them go, eventually they will be brought to justice, but I don’t think anybody expects us to simply release terrorists into – people who we’ve encountered on the battlefield in places like Afghanistan – just release them back into the general population. It makes no sense. And in fact we have released some people from Guantanamo who we’ve met again on the battlefield.

Sweet. Does that resonate with you? It sure does with me. Makes me want to think that none of 'em should ever get let go. Our troops may have to face 'em again, right? It's too bad that complex issues can't really be summed up in a couple sentences. Oh well, back to thinkin'.
posted by MindSquash the Brain Worm @ 10:27 PM  
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