Comments on: “Let’s Move On”

By: Surfered

Surfered — Thu, 23 Jul 2009 15:50:10 +0000

OK, first a little sarcasm: I wonder if the Taliban holding the U. S. serviceman as prisoner will seek a legal opinion from a Mullah to exempt him from Geneva protections and employ enhanced interrogation techniques. After all, our country believes torture works, and it is about their national security. And they’ll have to hold him indefinitely, or else he’ll return to the battlefield. Funny, not.

Got you thinking now? Our thoughts and prayers go out for him and his family.

For the infantry, every patrol is a ticking time bomb of booby traps, mines, and ambush. That is why the military is the strongest supporter of Geneva, because unlike some lawyer in a Washington DC office, they are most likely to become a prisoner.

Torture is a war crime and a resulting death is murder. Bush/Cheney and their lawyers attempted to make it sound moral and legal. If we are only going to be forward looking, then let everybody out of jail.

By: trixta

trixta — Thu, 23 Jul 2009 13:04:29 +0000

Unfortunately, Docelder, you are right.

By: jangles

jangles — Wed, 22 Jul 2009 22:02:02 +0000

I still say that given our present experience and the past 8 years—anything that will keep Washington busy and distracted in the past will help to save our future. Washington is totally incompetent and incapable of helping the American people or promoting the general welfare.

By: TeakWoodKite

TeakWoodKite — Wed, 22 Jul 2009 21:40:51 +0000

They are moving Capital Hill to Marths’s Vinyard?

By: NomNomNom

NomNomNom — Wed, 22 Jul 2009 20:59:52 +0000

a big pig pen

By: Athena the Warrior

Athena the Warrior — Wed, 22 Jul 2009 20:56:10 +0000

Here, here! The greatest enemy to this country right now is our own Congress and the Socialist-In-Chief in the White House.

By: foxyladi14

foxyladi14 — Wed, 22 Jul 2009 20:12:38 +0000

would that be big pen or pig pen..

By: Uhmmm

Uhmmm — Wed, 22 Jul 2009 19:00:34 +0000

“Sensationalism” would be my guess. It’s a catchy soundbite that’s
easier that the effort it would take the media and society to deal with the incarceration of human beings without due process….that’s how totalitarian regimes start. Now, can you imagine what would happen if the son or the daughte rof a “congressperson” is incarcerated for a few more hours without charges and due process inside the US? Or mistaken by someone else?
How big of a scandal would then that be?

By: Diana

Diana — Wed, 22 Jul 2009 18:56:07 +0000

I agree. They all had a hand in everything that happened, this is just more divert and distract BS. There is no way they’re going to put Dick Cheney or Bush in prison. If that’s what people think they’re a few fries short of a happy meal.

They’d have to put an awful lot of people in prison. I’m tired of all the divert and distract nonsense from both sides. It isn’t accomplishing anything. I want to get back to our country. Start fixing all the messes, not sit back while more are being created, because I’m too busy worried about what the last guy was doing while the new guy is doing the exact same thing and worse. Doing nothing but pointing fingers.

By: DCMediagirl

DCMediagirl — Wed, 22 Jul 2009 18:34:57 +0000

What horrifies me is that all the focus on waterboarding, while an abhorrent practice, distracts from an even greater injustice: how Guantanamo and Baghram, etc., are depositories for many innocent individuals who have been sold to the Americans for a bounty by rival tribesman, corrupt intelligence operatives and just plain greedheads. We’re talking about a US government sanctioned human trafficking operation. Ghastly.

By: NomNomNom

NomNomNom — Wed, 22 Jul 2009 18:26:24 +0000

I’d love for you to be wrong too, because then I’d be wrong…

By: DCMediagirl

DCMediagirl — Wed, 22 Jul 2009 18:25:24 +0000

I don’t know if it’s a question of whether they can’t or won’t. Either way the odds don’t look good. But I cling to my idealism

By: NomNomNom

NomNomNom — Wed, 22 Jul 2009 18:22:55 +0000

Crap, I’d rather just take every freaking congressperson and the supreme court, higher courts that backed all this sh#t, and all those in both the bush and BHO executive branch and put them all in jail without a trial. Hey, precedent’s on our side in this. & If we accidentally put a couple of innocent ones in jail, so what, they call mistakes like that collateral damage and reckon it perfectly acceptable against everyone else.
Oh yeah, and they’re not “enemy combatants” anymore; just read the other day now we’re supposed to call them “unprivileged belligerents”: these guys can be the overprivileged belligerents. Instead of holding them in Guantanamo, we can put them in a big pen at Martha’s Vineyard.

By: Uhmmm

Uhmmm — Wed, 22 Jul 2009 18:21:03 +0000

Agreed; absolutely.

The question is how can the judiciary do so without being blocked by Congress or the Executive? (or why doesn’t it do it?).

By: Uhmmm

Uhmmm — Wed, 22 Jul 2009 18:16:19 +0000

That’s not the point. Noone is areguing against going after Bush and Cheny: the question for you is why just those 2? And Congress? Read my 2 comments below.