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To: Broken_Clock who wrote (570136)	12/11/2010 9:01:52 AM
From: Peter Dierks	4 Recommendations Read Replies (1) of 1579687

The Collapse of the Guantanamo Myth This week a Democrat Congress ratified Bush-era policy by refusing to fund any effort to shut the detention facility. By JOHN C. YOO AND ROBERT J. DELAHUNTY DECEMBER 11, 2010. When announcing in 2002 that the U.S. would detain al Qaeda fighters at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, then-Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld famously described the base as "the best, least worst place." Mr. Rumsfeld's quip distilled a truth: The U.S. would capture enemy fighters and leaders, and their detention, while messy, was of great military value. For two years, President Barack Obama has pretended that terrorism is a crime, that prisoners are unwanted, and that Gitmo is unneeded. As a presidential candidate, he declared: "It's time to show the world . . . we're not a country that runs prisons which lock people away without ever telling them why they're there or what they're charged with." Upon taking office, he ordered Gitmo closed within the year. But the president's embrace of the left's terrorism-as-crime theories collided with ... Message 27020235

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