The General Who Opened Gitmo Says It Should Be Shut Down

[Vox Moi]

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2013/12/12/michael-lehnert_n_4432739.html

He said the United States opened it "because we were legitimately angry and frightened" by the Sept. 11 hijacked plane attacks in 2001 and thought the captives sent there would provide "a treasure trove of information and intelligence."

He quickly became convinced that most of them never should have been sent there because they had little intelligence value and there was insufficient evidence linking them to war crimes, he wrote.

General Lehnert explains that we opened Gitmo because "we were legitimately angry and frightened".
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Being angry and frightened does not excuse kidnapping, illegal detention and torture. The General is saying we were wrong but does not complete the logic and say that we are accountable.

[Bandit]

1. The ONLY reason the Bush*/Cheney Cabal opened Gitmo was so they would not have to

abide by US Laws. They wanted to torture and treat those people badly and knew they could not do that anywhere in America.. It has absolutely no other reason for it's existence.

[UTUSN]

2. R#2 & K for, where to start...

1) with my eternal question, how come a nobody like me withOUT all the vast, sophisticated intel-gathering resources knows what’s correct back when at the time it’s happening while all the smart/resource-crammed people with actual power DON’T?!1

2) Should we be glad for better-late-than-never (dude saying what he’s saying now) or too-late-now-Bozo?

3) What about the Wingnut perpetual parrot-point about not-trading-freedom(values)-for-security?

4) No, no, talk about “drive bys” -- wingnuts lob their propaganda and wrong-policy missiles then scurry merrily away, NO-FAULT, NO FINGERPOINTING, let’s move forward!1

[UTUSN]

3. K n/t