For GODS sake they are being treated better here than they were at home, they are cleaner, better fed, healthier and SAFER, but don't let simple facts like that get in the way of "FREE THE TERRORISTS MOVEMENT"
This is ridiculous, MM, and a GROSS mischaracterization of what I said. I am NOT a member of the "FREE THE TERRORISTS MOVEMENT", I am an advocate for us acting like the great nation we are.
I DON'T blindly trust the government to tell us who the terrorists are and lock them away. I wonder why we raised so much fuss about Soviet gulags when we're willing to do the same thing. This government lied to us at Waco, MM, they lied to us at Ruby Ridge, and we're supposed to just trust them here?
When will this war be won? When CAN this war be won? When noone turns a gun on another? Then we've given these people a life sentence without benefit of a trial. People who MAY HAVE done nothing more than defend their hometown against an invading army! If someone blows up a shopping mall, they are a terrorist. You'll get no argument from me here. But when they turn a gun on an enemy soldier walking through the streets of THEIR HOMETOWN, they are a patriot and any attempt to define them any differently is just spin.
I have not advocated for the freeing of a single Gitmo detainee, MM. I've advocated for their TRIAL, either in a military tribunal or in a civilian court, it makes no difference to me. Something that weeds out the possibility, however negligible, that one of them may be innocent.
If I remember correctly, MM, you are anti-death penalty because you don't want a single innocent to be executed. That is a good and noble position. Why, then, would we want a single innocent detained?
The way they treat our soldiers is irrelevant? Are we to become barbarians simply because the enemy does? Do we sacrifice everything we hold precious about human life because the enemy is evil? Or do we realize that we, the greatest nation in the world, where so many of us individuals (although, sadly, not the government) hold human life to be precious even in the womb, should treat even our enemies with dignity that respects their humanity? Pro-life to me means respecting ALL life even when we don't respect the actions of the individual.