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   Bill_Clay said, 5 months ago

   The real problem is that it’s harder to torture them when they’re on US soil. It’s not impossible, it’s just a little trickier not to get prosecuted. But do it on a remote military outpost on a communist island and you get a blank check to torture!

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   cdward said, 5 months ago

   Bill_Clay, good point.

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   sfiller said, 5 months ago

   Daylight through the window. Clv or Chigo. Or could be subway outdoors in daytime. Modern art on car wall. Balding man holding straphanger has saber in teeth, wears striped shirt and striped tie. Woman holding pole has sharp protruding lower-jaw teeth. Young man seated reads “Felon Today.” All escapees. White trio rob and murder Gitmo detainee escaping from civilian confinement (“close door after escape”). We are more dangerous than they are! Ex-Guantanomo detainee is gentle and off his guard, so automatic or semiautomatic weapon he carries gets no use. I go with this. Seven years of solitary would have driven me mad(der) and made me passive. It’s a parody of the law of compensation, the law of the free market: what eases up here, tightens up there; supply up, price down; price up, supply up. The robber-murderers have the excuse that the brown man is brown and dangerous, “ji[had]-head” as in towel-head. My prejudices are turned against me. We have met the enemy and … I like this because I am sick with rage over the complicity of people–writers–who should know better in the stupid dehumanization of people we kill and rob, as we have killed and robbed in Iraq and Afghanistan. I understand that that is the attitude of war–Tolstoy shows it in the scene of Pierre’s last day confined by the French as the troops begin to move; NBlake shows it in Churchill’s night bombings supposed to anger the Germans but at bottom to militate the British; Lincoln too had to mobilize the citizens; all, Hitler, Tito, you have to do it. SO ROUSING PEOPLE INTO THE WARLIKE ATTITUDE IS MORE DANGEROUS THAN NUCLEAR ARMS. (TR calls for the president to resign, but I for one would not accept his resignation.)

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   Gary Kleppe said, 5 months ago

   The real problem is that most if not all of them are innocent, and if you bring them here the people who kidnapped them might have to be held accountable for it.

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   dfunkt said, 5 months ago

   seems like rall is getting a bit more sensical now!

   i like this tangent much more than the obama-bashing that has been occurring as-of-late…

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   Donlsweett said, 5 months ago

   Credit Card numbers and format are correct.

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   Tigger said, 5 months ago

   Turn them loose in known ‘Gang’ Neighborhoods, all of them will be dead and disposed of within a few minutes.

   One thing about Rall, he is fair and Balanced, he has not cut Obama any slack.

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   bromonation said, 5 months ago

   meh..

   1st pane was genuinely funny regardless of the argument.

   argument, however, was weak and convoluted.

   punchline was mildly humorous.

   2/10

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   M Kitt said, 5 months ago

   That’s about right, GK, and even if we got any info. it would be inadmissable as trial evidence, they’ll say whatever is necessary to stop the “treatment” in progress. Valuable info. has a shelf-life too, if you were to capture someone holding anything crucial his/her backup people would know it immediately and just change their plans, makes me wonder why holding many of them for years is of any value at all except maybe to intimidate the others by example…..

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    HOWGOZIT said, 5 months ago

    Torture is reading Clay’s post

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    Gary Kleppe said, 5 months ago

    “Torture is reading Clay’s post”

    Poor BAY-bee.

    Maybe you should volunteer to be locked up in Guantanumo.

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    eaglesofwar said, 5 months ago

    I read this article and most of the comments think the Gitmo prisoners are innocent. That is a far cry from the truth. They were put their for a reason. The current liberal, socialist president, house and congress promised to release them but has changed their minds after they looked at the evidence. Just face the fact these prisoners are no more than terrorists. The second they are out they will be planning on bombing the larger cities in America. The larger cities has a larger population that is pulling for them to get out. Look at the last terrorists Obama released in London, there is reports out know that he is planning another bombing. I guess Obama can keep letting them go while weakening the nation as a whole and then blame the bombing on Bush. As far as getting robbed on the subway and most people are felons they must be talking about the Obama votes through Acorn. The area for this strip must have been NYC or LA in the middle of the gang zone.

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    Right_On said, 5 months ago

    So either I’m an escaped felon, or Terrorists are just normal innocent people. Either way, Ted says that we are the same.

    Gee, that sounds rational.

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    Gary Kleppe said, 5 months ago

    “I read this article and most of the comments think the Gitmo prisoners are innocent. That is a far cry from the truth. They were put their for a reason.”

    Prove it.

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    M Kitt said, 5 months ago

    Right Gary, you see thru it. If there were legitimate, legally sustained, concrete evidence against these groups of prisoners the W administration would have release the statistics, if not the details, to the public long ago to save their sorry hides and raise themselves above criticism.
    Cheney is “threatening” to release numbers but my take on it is that he’s trying to shut up the critics by claiming the Dems bear some responsibility for his mistaken policies, smearing the congress & others (Pelosi) that were privy to some (carefully selected, I’m guessing) information, if that weren’t the case he’d have already released it for the reasons given above and wouldn’t have even bothered with legal permission like so many of the things he’s done.
    Cheney (hopefully), Blackwater, and the others preparing for possible extradition…..Dubai is where they’ll go. How about you, Eagle?

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    HOWGOZIT said, 5 months ago

    Hey Kleppe–those terrorists have it better in GTMO than they do in their homeland. What a bleeding heart!

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    danielsangeo said, 5 months ago

    “those terrorists have it better in GTMO than they do in their homeland. What a bleeding heart!”

    Irrelevant, and you know it.

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    HOWGOZIT said, 5 months ago

    Irrelevant–how so?

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    danielsangeo said, 5 months ago

    The way the terrorists were treated in their homeland has NOTHING to do with how we should treat them when we detain them. We signed treaties about how to treat our detainees. That’s what’s relevant.

    Treating them “better” while still breaking International Law is still wrong. We need to treat them in accordance with the law.

    Or we’re no better than them.

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    striper77 said, 5 months ago

    If they were not guilty socialist Obama would have released them.

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    M Kitt said, 5 months ago

    So striper, you and eagles get together on your’ off time to browse some Mein Kampf? Compare notes about the inquisition? Guess we’ve all gotta have hobbies…

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    Bill_Clay said, 5 months ago

    “So either I’m an escaped felon, or Terrorists are just normal innocent people.”

    In other words, you didn’t understand the cartoon.

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    Gary Kleppe said, 5 months ago

    “Irrelevant–how so?”

    Because kidnapping people is a crime, no matter how well you treat them during.

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    fennec said, 5 months ago

    ^one really sick puppy here.

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    M Kitt said, 5 months ago

    Stripper is walking, talking proof: “The GOP gives license to a broad range of hatred among it’s members, their bigotry isn’t narrowly confined, many have said B. Obama’s affiliation with Islamic family members makes him anti-American, why not just cross-index the spectrum of persistent ignorance that makes up the core of the GOP and admit that his brown skin bothers you a lot, Repubs. Many of your’ party have no problem admitting it, you’ll feel better for being honest about yourself. And throw gays in there somewhere, wouldn’t be the same blend of hatred without them, come on, GOP, indulge.” Ignorance incorporated. Hey stripper, what’s your’ most important decision of the day, to wear the brown shirt or the white hood, I’ll bet.

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    fennec said, 5 months ago

    stripper, I still say you’re one sick puppy. Plus you haven’t a clue, but I doubt that you understand why I say this.

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    dfunkt said, 5 months ago

    lol, stripper, your absurd and disordered thoughts are so comical as to be scary…

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    anat622 said, 5 months ago

    What I don’t understand is, how is being in a maximum security prison in the US supposed to be an improvement over Gitmo?