Certain people, and I’m naming no names – because if you read this blog at all, you’ll get it – have been terribly upset at how mean ol’ Gitmo is.<\/p>\n
Certain people have been clamouring for it to be shut down and the inmates to be released.<\/p>\n
Certain people have been upset that the Obama administration has only let some of them go.<\/p>\n
Well, one of the people they did let go has formed an Al Qaeda splinter cell so virulent that even Zawahiri has denounced it, and has raised a ten thousand strong army that is marching through the Sunni areas of Baghdad, leaving piles of severed heads in their wake<\/a>.<\/p>\n Do you think that certain people, including the insufferable Glenn Greenwald, are going to think that their view of Gitmo may have been a teensy-weensy bit simplistic?<\/p>\n Of course they bloody won’t. \u00a0It’s not\u00a0their<\/em> heads that are being piled up along the streets of Iraq.<\/p>\n For the record, chaps like Al Baghdadi should never have been taken prisoner – they should have been shot. \u00a0Before someone starts yelling about the laws of war, the laws of war do\u00a0not<\/em> apply to those who fight out of uniform and use civilians as shields. \u00a0Read this<\/a> and then get back to me. \u00a0And if the Bush admin had had the sense not to take this lot prisoner in the first place, we wouldn’t have this problem right now.<\/p>\n