If wingnuts are furious about the Taliban prisoner exchange that
freed Sgt. Bowe Bergdahl, the members of Team shrub are absolutely
frothing at the mouth. Writing in the Washington Post, former shrub speechwriters Michael Gerson and Marc Thiessen suggested that at best,
President Obama does not have the attitude that "we will fight you as
long as you fight us" and, at worst, "is surrendering to the Taliban."
Echoing the demands of the likes of Allen West and Faux News regular
Jeanine Pirro that Obama be impeached, the shrub's last Attorney
General Michael Mukasey declared that the "wholesale release of
dangerous people" would merit removal from office.While not
surprising from people who have been advocating the impeachment of
Barack Obama for five years, the statements are nevertheless more than a
little ironic. After all, under the shrub more than 500 detainees
were released from Guantanamo Bay. And when the Supreme Court upheld the
habeas corpus rights of the U.S prisoners there in June 2008, the shrub junta and its repugican allies issued dire warnings about the
"Gitmo 30" who had already returned "to the kill."
The Gitmo 30
sound bite dates back to the summer of 2007, when the Pentagon released
its own study to counter an analysis by Seton Hall professor Mark
Denbeaux which questioned the intelligence value of Al Qaeda and Taliban
personnel held by the U.S. The New York Times said the DoD assessment
"paints a chilling portrait of the detainees," and quoted Pentagon
spokesman Jeffrey Gorden on one of its key findings:
"Our
reports indicate that at least 30 former Guantanamo detainees have taken
part in anti-coalition militant activities after leaving U.S.
detention," he said. "Some have been killed in combat in Afghanistan and
Pakistan."
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