We Regret To Inform You...

That Amnesty International was wrong. They are backtracking (well, sort of backtracking) from their gulag claims against the US government.

You see, they were using the language for the purpose of eliciting a reaction from the public. They didn't count on being fact checked, nor that people who have read history would take the time to completely thrash the organizations bogus references to a gulag ongoing at GitMo.

Meanwhile, Sen Joe Biden (D-DE) wants to shut down the detention center where the US holds those captured on the battlefields of Afghanistan. Yeah, great move there Senator. Where exactly would those detainees go? Back into the wilds to commit further attacks against our troops? Do you care? Did you think out what the US would do?

Then again, that kind of comment could lead some US soldiers to think it might be better to simply kill every last nonuniformed insurgent, terrorist, or rebel (or any other such label one can think of) instead of capturing them because the possibility exists that these guys could come back into action because the US cannot detain them at a secure facility because of the mere accusation that a Koran was defiled (though even then, the defiling of the Koran occurred mostly by the detainees themselves).

After all, it's our soldiers at risk, and if they think that the terrorists would come back into play, they'll do what is necessary to safeguard their comrades, and us.

Technorati: Iraq, GitMo, and terrorism.


UPDATE - fixed typos