Originally posted by rpm
No troll, just the response I expected from the Bushboiz. Looks like I was right afterall. So is Colin Powell.
Bodhi, if we were going after the guy responsable for that, I'd be behind ya 100%.
Yeah, it's a troll, designed and expected to elicit a specific "desired"
response. You ASKED for that response in the thread title, it's pretty hard for you to HONESTLY deny that.
And you don't have to feel that Colin Powell has aligned himself with alQueada to disagree with him. That position is just stupid, ignorant, or over simplified for political reasons. Pick whichever fits you. I find that in this case, with all due respect to him, that Colin Powell happens to be wrong, while having good intentions. That makes him wrong, but it doesn't make him an enemy sympathizer.
Eventually, people will come to understand that Gitmo is not a recruiting tool for the enemy, any more that POW camps were a recruiting tool for the enemy in World War II. Gitmo is a far bigger story (and driven by the media as well as the liberal agenda) here than it is there. And as far as what "enlightened" and "civilized" people in Europe or elsewhere think of it goes, they'll eventually learn about the kind of people held there, probably the hard way. The enemy does not need Abu Graihb or Gitmo as a recruiting tool, and no one has produced any real evidence that either is a driving factor in either recruiting or attacks. Has it been mentioned? Yes, terrorists tend to list long rambling diatribes full of grievances because they are psychotic murderers, so anything they can possibly think of is added to the list.
By the way, Gitmo and Abu Graihb don't make us "like them"
either, since no one has shown where anyone was disemboweled or beheaded at either place, nor were there any amputations, or for that matter much of anything else. Hardly an illustration of how we become "like them"
in our treatment of captured enemy combatants.
