WHO cares if the Guantamano Six were tortured?Not me, that’s for sure, but you would have thought that the world had ended the way some of the Press reported the fact that, at long last, those accused of being the masterminds behind 9/11 were going to be tried.
They talked about kangaroo courts and acted as if these six were only on trial for shoplifting, not the cold-blooded murder of 3,000 innocents.
When will the ruling liberal elite realise we are at war with an enemy that isn’t fighting by the Queensberry rules and certainly doesn’t respect the Geneva Convention.
I wish the Yanks hadn’t used waterboarding to get the confessions but, I’m sorry, these are extraordinary times and they demand extraordinary methods.
If the liberals want to talk about the horrors of torture they should listen to the answerphone messages of the passengers on the planes as they careered into the World Trade Center, or remember the pictures of people who chose to jump rather than be burned alive. That was torture. That was pain. That was injustice.
This isn’t a game, this is war.
These madmen don’t give a warning when they are going to fly planes into buildings. The nutters of 7/7 didn’t phone the police before they pulled the strings on their rucksacks and now is not the time for social niceties and manners. Now is the time to fight fire with fire.
― Tracer Hand, Friday, 15 February 2008 11:12 (sixteen years ago) link