THE ANGELS OF GITMO
Sunday, July 5, 2009 at 10:46PM 
We all know that those poor Muslims incarcerated at that "Gulag of our times" - Gitmo - were all innocent angels whose only crime was to be in the wrong place at the wrong time. So...
" As Marine Corps forces roll into southern Afghanistan, they face an enemy familiar to US officials -- Mullah Zakir, a former Guantanamo Bay prisoner who now leads a reconstituted Taliban.And he acknowledged that he was "called to fight jihad in approximately 1997," when he joined the Taliban.In 2001, he surrendered to US and Afghan forces in the northern city of Mazar-e-Sharif as the regime was collapsing. He spent the next several years in custody, was transferred to Guantanamo around 2006, then to Afghanistan government custody in late 2007, and was eventually released around May"
Still, I am sure the families of those US or British soldiers killed by Zakir and his associates in Helmand will realise that this is a small price to pay to ensure liberal consciences are kept pure.
Gitmo. 
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Reader Comments (6)
Kindly refer me to one person who has ever written a comment on ATW that those in Gitmo are innocent Angels.
Seamus, Daytripper, a few of the woman and others Mahons.
There were tons of comments of how they terrorists at GITMO were just standing around and swept up by the evil american forces
They were choir boys picked up by bounty hunters who then sold them to the American slave traders for transport to the Cuban torture chambers
Troll - I don't recall anyone (including those you cited) ever claiming that all these detainees were angels, rather that they deserved trials. There might be some who claimed a lack of jurisdiction on the part of the US, but I honestly don't recall anyone claiming they were all angels.
Phantom - in reality we have to consider that our little piece of Cuba was run little better than the rest of Cuba when it comes to providing fair trials, or any trial for that matter. And I detest Castro.
They deserved trials - like in civil courts with civil standards of evidence, as collected on a battlefield? I'm pretty sure that's what you mean, Mahons, and it is such idiocies which crack me up about lefties like you who also deny that they are lefties.
There is an excellent film called Breaker Morant, set in the Boer War and based on events which happened. A rule was quoted during that film - Rule 303. The .303 inch rifle was standard issue to British troops and Rule 303 was that guerillas captured in flagrant délit were shot there and then under Rule 303. That needs to be brought back and applied. If it's good enough for the Transvaal veld, Stalingrad, Berlin, da Nang, then it's good enough for Afghanistan.
The inmates of Gitmo get far fairer treatment than any poor soul in Castro's prison empire ever see.
The fairness is shown by the many who have been released. Its more than fair - as so many have come back to the terrorism that they supposedly were not involved with in the first place.