The US ‘wants to end Guantanamo’
US President George W Bush has outlined his position on the US prison camp at Guantanamo Bay, which he says he “would like to end”.
Mr. Bush pledged to send many detainees back to their home countries, but said he wanted to put some on trial because they were “cold-blooded killers”. The comments came after talks with EU leaders at a one-day summit in Vienna.
This is ‘breaking news’ on the online version of BBC and I don’t know why but behind this one ‘but’ I have the feeling that is hiding one much bigger ‘but’ and the distance between ‘I would like to’ to the ‘I will do’ is much bigger than two words. Actually I’m pretty sure that the distance is more than a couple of light-years.
Guantanamo must close here and now and not the ‘thought’ or ‘wish’ to close it to be used as P.R. for better relations between USA and EU.
June 21st, 2006 at 6:38 pm
same with DRUGS… they “would like” to end drug trafic
June 21st, 2006 at 8:48 pm
God, when it comes to George you can write a book with all the issues he’s screwing up!!!
June 22nd, 2006 at 12:05 am
Check this out:
ONE OUT OF THREE AIN’T BAD. On NPR’s Diane Rehm Show today, retired General Barry McCaffery, just back from a trip to Guantanamo, said,
I think it’s likely that a third of these guys are international jihadists. They tell us day to day “that you let me go I’m going to kill Americans”
Does that mean that two-thirds of them are not international terrorists? If not, what are they?
And there was this interesting exchange:
Rehm: You had said to me during the break that a great many people had been unlawfully killed and abused.
McCaffery: Yeah, first of all I’d like to say that the early part of the war, the first year or two, that there was some inadequate and possibly illegal use of detainees. There have been many prosecutions, either ongoing or completed at lower levels There was a policy dimension, I try to make objective and clear-cut in my views. I’ve now looked at the detention facilities in Iraq and Afghanistan and Guantanamo, and they are humane and in accordance with our military values.
A “policy dimension” to abuse and perhaps unlawful executions? That’s a subject that could use more examination.
June 22nd, 2006 at 12:44 am
more to Bush…
http://www.rotten.com/library/bio/presidents/george-w-bush/