Guantanamo Bay- Part 2

The Pentagon released a report today about the abuse of prisoners at Camp Xray in Guantanamo Bay, Cuba. If you haven't seen it or read it or heard about it, I'll give you the down and dirty. "Interrogators subjected a suspected terrorist to 'abusive and degrading' treatment, forcing him to wear a bra, dance with another man and behave like a dog," military investigators reported Wednesday. (This is according to Associated Press writers John Lumpkin and Lolita Baldor) Army Major General Geoffery Miller has been recommended a repremand for failing to oversee the interrogation of a 9/11 suspect.
The terror "suspect" in question is Mohamed al-Qahtani, a Saudi citizen captured in December 2001 along the Afghanistan-Pakistan border. It was learned later that he had tried to enter the U.S. in August 2001 but was turned away by an immigration agent at the Orlando, FL airport. Mohamed Atta, the ringleader of the 9/11 terrorists, was in the airport at the same time, officials have said. (To read the AP story, check out the link below)
Okay, let me get this straight, Mr al-Qahtani was turned away at the Orlando airport the same day Mohamed Atta arrived and he was captured along the Afghan-Pakistan border 4 months later in December (right about the time the 101st Airborne was chasing the remnants of the Taliban, al-Qaeda and Osama bin Ladin into Pakistan), and to make him talk at Gitmo they.....forced him to join a fraternity! Oh my Gawd! I'm ashamed to be an American! How can I live with myself? Th-th-they forced him to wear a bra! They forced him to d-d-d-dance with a....a man! Well BFD! For those who need that deciphered it's "Big ****ing Deal!"
Listen up Ted Kennedy and Howard Dean and Kofi Anna, once and for all, terrorist like Mohamed al-Qahtani are not enemy soldiers entitled to the rights granted by the Geneva Convention. They are not American citizens protected by the United States constitution. The are not criminals protected by Habeas Corpus. What they are are sub human monsters polluted by a false religion who need to be exterminated before they contaminate the rest of the world or endanger another living soul. If I were king, those who were found guilty of terrorism by a military tribunal (after we had determined we had squeezed every last drop of information we could from them) would be lined up against a wall and shot. Those who were determined to no longer be a threat would be packed up on a C-130, given a parachute and a bottle of water, and I'd fly them back to Afghanistan and kick them out the back ramp somewhere over the snowy Hindu-Kush or smack in the middle of the burning Saudi wastelands.
My wife and I were having a discussion last night in bed (as wives and husbands often do) and she asked me to tell her a secret about myself that I'd never told her before. What I told her was, "I sometimes worry that God will be angry with me because I have absolutely no remorse about anything I did in Afghanistan. I haven't lost a single second of sleep over any muslim who was sent straight to H-E- double L directly by the 5.56mm coming from my M-4 or who may one day die at the hands of an Afghan soldier I trained. I also told her that every time I read something bad in the news involving the war on terror (like the CH-47 getting shot down with all those brave Navy Seals) I wish I was back in Afghanistan riding in a chopper and humping through the mountains looking for OBL. And I wish Sameul L Jackson was right beside me so when I found him, right before I put a bullet in his brain Sam could say, "And you will know my name is the Lord! When I lay my vengeance upon you!" BANG!
Does that make me no better than Mohamed Atta or Mohamed al-Qahtani? I'm pretty sure God is going to let me know that when I see him. Until then, "The duty is ours, the consequence is God's"
General Thomas Jackson 1863
SSG JDale
And that's my stinking opinion.

1 Comments:
The guilt question is nothing new. I never fully understood it from my grandfathers and their brothers until I started chasing crackheads and armed robbers, and was responsible for the deaths of human beings, and taking accountability for peers and subordinates killed in the line of duty.
Scripture is pretty clear on it. There is justified killing, and there is murder. I often have to refer to the Word from time to time just for the reality check. Many people quote the Old Testament when showing the fact that Israel was ordered to kill every man, woman, and child in certain cities. If this command was followed, we would not have the "wild man" descendants of Ishmael today to deal with.
Tte Ten Commandments plainly state that you are not to murder. (Exodus 20:13). Solomon was inspired by God to write in Ecclesiastes 3:8 that there is a time for war. Even in 1 Samuel 17:45-54 where a young David slays Goliath, it still shows that the army of Israel persued the Philistines and destroyed them as they were running away!
The key in all of this is:Who are you representing? Good, or evil? Note 1 Samuel 17:47 "Then all of this assembly shall know that the Lord does not save with sword and spear;FOR THE BATTLE IS THE LORD'S AND HE WILL GIVE YOU UNTO OUR HANDS. (CAPS ADDED)" Unto our hands...surely not for a group hug, as illustrated in the following verses and many other places. The 144th Psalm even gives praise to the Lord for being ready for battle (Psalm 144:1).
Some say, "Well, that's the Old Testament, what about the more modern New Testament ?" The New Testament often claims the Old as being inerrant and complete. Christ himself often referred to the Old Testament, and the parts most often derided by modern scholars (John 10:35, Matthew 19:4-6, Luke 11:18, Matthew 24:37-38, Matthew 12:39-40, and Luke 17:32).
So...what does the New Testament say about this. In Luke 3: 14, John the Baptist responds as inspired by God: "Likewise the soldeirs asked him, saying, "And what shall we do?" And he said to them "Do not intimidate anyone or accuse falsely, and be content with your wages." Note that part of being content with wages...soldier's pay. Nothing is said about having to quit the Army or any of its duties, which included killing. Romans 13: 1-7 also puts out what the consequences are to those who do evil, and verse 9 again hits on the Ten Commandments.
When Jesus approaches the Centurion about thh Centurion servant in Matthew 8:5-13, He does not rebuke him for his profession, but says in verse 10, "Assuredly, I say to you, I have found not such great faith, not even in Israel!"
My own stinking opinion? These animals violated among the many laws of God by murdering their own people, and now ours. We have attempted to deal with them through diplomatic channels. It did not work, leaving us but one option: TO PRESERVE INNOCENT HUMAN LIFE by taking out the murderers.
LTC Dave Grossman has a most excellent CD called "The Bullet Proof Mind." I used to make each of my trainees listen to it, and it deals precisely with this issue. You should find it at Amazon, or at Calibre Press.
Take care.
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