Jimmy Carter's call to close Gitmo gives aid & comfort to the enemy?

[mopaul]

a cspan idiot caller just said that. the level of idiocy is sometimes stunning.

[bowens43]

1. No it didn't, the enemy is pissed.

Unfortunately, unless we are able to regain control of the house and senate in 2006, the enemy will remain in power until 2008.

[KeepItReal]

2. Jimmy Carter could say "The sky is blue" - they'd still go nuts

Funny how the Justice Department could round up and convict just about all of the terrorists who bombed the WTC in the 90's but nobody in this administration can do the same thing and round up Al Qaeda members invoved in 9/11 and convict them.

[Smarmie Doofus]

3. Evidently this is now the mother of all RW talking points:

Reporting *anything* they do is "giving aid and comfort".

The logic has an insane sort of consistency. Unassailable really.

It's not the ACT that's evil; it's the reporting of it. After all, if no one KNOWS about it, no one will be angry.

As a tactic, it will probably work, domestically anyway. American MSM doesn't need much encouragement to look the other way.

[tsuki]

10. It is the mother of all smokescreens.

[Ravenseye]

4. Where were these aid and comfort folks...

...when we had troops in Somalia? Yugoslavia? Haiti?

Oh wait. We had a Democratic president then, so it was ok to call for the removal of troops, and so on and so forth.

Hypocrits. All of them.

[baldguy]

5. Keeping it open gives aid & comfort to the enemy.

The terrorists use it as a recruiting tool. "Look how they treat our fellow Muslims! They treat them literally like animals! If you let it continue, you may be next."

Also, America is supposed to be the Good Guy. But as long as we ignore international conventions & refuse these POWs their rights, and as long as we torture them, there is absolutely no way we can claim the moral high ground.

It's a sad irony that one of our national symbols is called "Liberty Enlightening The World" when we have created small, dark places where we won't allow liberty to even be a thought.

[Deja Q]

6. Carter wants Gitmo to be shut down and THAT is giving aid to the enemy?!

:crazy: indeed.

Keep gitmo. Just put in people who are LAW ABIDING, MORAL, and ETHICAL. Including the Geneva convention, that the US ought to be held to as well. Isn't that not unreasonable?!

[ayeshahaqqiqa]

7. Gitmo itself gives aid to the enemy

if by that term is meant al Qaeda. Why? What better recruiting tool than to tell the masses what atrocities have been done there? The desecration of the Qur'an has inflamed opinion against the US, and made it much more difficult for moderate and progressive Muslims to gain followers-who is going to believe that the US does treat different religions fairly when this sort of thing is done? Who is going to believe that the US is NOT on a crusade to Christianize the world when creatures like Ann Coulter say as much and the cadets at the Air Force Academy proselytize?

[indepat]

8. Any questioning of any policy and/or action of this Administration gives

aid and comfort to the enemy for you are either with us or against us and if against us, you are the enemy, plain and simple and you will be treated as such.

[DemonFighterLives]

9. Carter has too much brainpower to be understood

by these cretins.

A caller on c-spn just now from Amnesty International who liked the gulag comment that called attention to the matter. She was representing one of the detainees who can get no representation from Gitmo. It is against the Geneva Conventions and torture and murder are occurring there.