Ted Rall for February 29, 2016
Transcript:
Narrator: Congressional Republicans refuse to close GITMO because that would bring "dangerous terrorists" to the United States. Man: Didn't the Colorado prison system suffer enough when ISIS attacked on 9/11? Narrator: Of course, they'd be in supermax federal prisons. No one has ever escaped from supermax. Sold at age 15 to US forces for a bounty paid to Afghan warlord. Training: Kebob sales. Tortured, so presumably thirsting for vengeance. Their fears are straight out of a 1970's horror movie. Man 2: Bad news, Senator: Abu Kebob has escaped- and he's coming for you! Man 3: Have you checked the children? Narrator: And this passes for serious politics... Man 2: Of course. They never escaped from GITMO into the streets of Cuba. Man 3: Waiting for their chance. Biding their time. Crafty fiends!!
Ted misses the point. In a US Prison the prisoners have rights! They might even get a trial, and which Republican wants them to have their cases aired in court? Far too much dirty laundry! Soon they could be having their own trial, as war criminals in The Hague.
Americans like seeing themselves as the ‘Good Guys’, fighting evil. The abomination of Guantanamo shows the truth.