Five men held at Guantanamo announced they wanted to plead guilty to terrorism and other charges associated with the 9/11 attacks. Really? And on the very day that Obama won the election for the American presidency?
The old weekly magazines, from time to time, used to have cartoons which read: "How Many Things Can You Find Wrong In This Picture?" Remember? Well, it's no cartoon that is taking place at Guantanamo now. It is deadly serious - and not just for any foreigner who might be killed - because what has already happened there will result in the deaths of innumerable American servicemen captured by enemy forces for the next one-hundred years. Sunni and Shiite factions are still fighting each other over events that happened 1400 years ago.
This all smells strongly of Bush. It seem just one more feather for his personal cap, one more draught deeply drawn into his righteously-intoxicated brain cells. One more star to hang in his own texas heaven to hover there forever above crawfordville. Never mind that it could also promote this group of five men into their own "heaven" of martyrdom.
This also makes unimportant that these five men are all probably guilty indeed of some "evil doing". But whatever they might have done pales into unimportance compared with America abandoning its rich heritage of rights and laws, admitting smugly that it was all just a joke. It is the final gift of George Bush to the world that as he swaggers away from the corpse of American Ideals, he returns one last time to defecate and urinate upon the remains before he abandons them to whomever might come along later.
@ John Womack, 2008. All rights reserved.
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