Quote Originally Posted by lars573 View Post
Gitmo and the Soviet/NAZI camps may not be exactly alike. But they are discomfortably similar.
They are, at the very least, the closest a civilized democracy and legal system has come.

And that should enough, really. In that camp, we* have treated completely innocent people, people who did NOTHING except being in a very wrong place at a very wrong time, worse than convicted mass murderers. If that's not unsettling and bonechilling, I don't know what is.

There was never a need for Gitmo, the people responsible for 9/11 would've been found guilty in an ordinary trial. Heck, they'd probably plead guilty and ask for the death penalty(like a couple of them just did)! The other reason for Gitmo, intelligence, is just as ridiculous, as it has been an established fact from the time of Aristotle that torture is NOT a good way to extract intelligence - and judging by the current status of OBL(ie. not captured and probably alive), I'd say his argument is still bloody valid.

Gitmo is an affront to civilization, an enormous stain on the american flag and arguably the largest policy failure of our time. Let it burn. It has done absolutely nothing good, and has destroyed almost everything.



*actually I mean you, I'm from norwayland