Residual Forces

The Left Angeles Times (as Hugh calls them) is running an editorial that, well, is crap. The Gitmo disgrace

IT IS TIME TO CLOSE THE U.S. military prison in Guantanamo Bay. The detainees there, numbering about 500, should be tried in court or released. It is inhumane to hold them indefinitely in a place where torture is not uncommon and due process is absent.

These aren’t our conclusions. They are those of a recent United Nations inspection team that spent 18 months investigating conditions at Gitmo. It’s not necessary to endorse all of its recommendations — and it’s hard to see how shutting down Gitmo would make the Bush administration any more amenable to respecting human rights and international conventions against torture — to observe yet again that the prison is a global embarrassment that does the U.S. more harm than good in the fight against terrorism.

Danger Will Robbinson! Danger!

I spotted a problem in the UN’s attempt to free the terrorists! The UN never actually visited Gitmo

WASHINGTON, Feb. 14, 2006 – The authors of an upcoming U.N.-sponsored report that alleges torture was committed against detainees held in Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, had declined an offer to observe operations at the facility, Defense and State Department officials said.

Facts? They don’t need no stinkin’ facts!

U.N. representatives could have visited the U.S. military-run Guantanamo detention facility, but had declined the offer because they wouldn’t be allowed to interview detainees, Whitman said yesterday. Representatives from the International Committee of the Red Cross, he said, are granted such access.

But nevertheless, the Left Angeles Times has run with this notion that the people caught trying to kill Americans should be afforded any and all rights. And the good ol’ Un has once again taken the side of America’s enemies. Why? Because it makes those fancy 5 star invite only dinner parties in New York so much funner. (The Hollywood elites won’t talk to them if they aren’t anti-America these days.)