What's happening with those poor devils at Camp Xray ???

Bush Presses for Release
Of Guantanamo Detainees

By JACKIE CALMES
Staff Reporter of THE WALL STREET JOURNAL

WHITE HOUSE PRESSES Pentagon and Justice on Guantanamo detainees.

The push to return prisoners to home countries follows Bush's visit to Britain, which wants its nine citizens back. U.S. lawyers draft letters to foreign governments offering to return prisoners, but seeking assurances they won't then be freed once home. Most of the 84 prisoners released so far have been deemed low-risk.

The next group -- several hundred detainees considered dangerous -- shouldn't go free, the U.S. says. But the post-9/11 detentions have become so controversial, even Pakistan, Kuwait and other authoritarian allies seek evidence to justify incarceration. U.S. officials fret they can't supply it in many cases.

The US government is both large and relatively transparent. The various national reporters of the WSJ and other major media institutions make it a point to stay close to the staffs of the departments they track and the White House as well. They track and assiduously report all the chatter they hear, the talk of delays, disagreements, and just gossip of the people who are their sources. Often this is no more than the inevitable noise of the machinery of government in motion. One can even get a glimpse of this in the somewhat disjoint WSJ article quoted above. Some department lawyers are trying to get assurances from other governments that they will detain the prisoners as a precondition of our release of them; other staffers think the process isn't moving quickly enough; etc. Overall, much ado about very little.

Blatham I consider you one of the sharpest blades in the a2k drawer and am therefore shocked that you would be drawn into a conversation with McGentrix about prisoners.

McGentrix would volunteer to drop the ZyklonB gas into the ovens on these people in my opinion and would probably gas their wives and children along with them. He is, in my opinion, a final solution kind of guy. He earns his position as a true Bush supporter.

Thank God we aren't quite that far down the road yet in America, although I'm sure GWB's handlers are working on it, and with the support of citizens like McGentrix you'll be reading about it eventually I fear.

You seem to lose sight of the idea that EVERYONE being held in Guantanamo was caught trying to murder Americans. That's right, murder. They are ILLEGAL combatants under the rules of war and they are know being treated as such. Why is that so painful for you to understand?

McGentrix wrote:

You seem to lose sight of the idea that EVERYONE being held in Guantanamo was caught trying to murder Americans. That's right, murder. They are ILLEGAL combatants under the rules of war and they are know being treated as such. Why is that so painful for you to understand?

You don't read, listen or watch to news, do you? Just posing here all by intuitution?

The US government is both large and relatively transparent.

The various national reporters of the WSJ and other major media institutions make it a point to stay close to the staffs of the departments they track and the White House as well. They track and assiduously report all the chatter they hear,

Are you offering up proof of their innocence?

McGentrix would volunteer to drop the ZyklonB gas into the ovens on these people in my opinion and would probably gas their wives and children along with them. He is, in my opinion, a final solution kind of guy. He earns his position as a true Bush supporter.

In the end, I look at this one and think we could do worse, and I've not heard anything better suggested, so I have to come down on the side of what we are doing now.