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Bush 'knew Guantanamo prisoners were innocent'

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Print Story: Bush 'knew Guantanamo prisoners were innocent' - Yahoo! News

Former US president George W. Bush and his top aides were accused Friday of covering up that many Guantanamo Bay detainees were innocent, amid fears releasing them could harm the 'war on terror'. The allegations were made in a document by Colonel Lawrence Wilkerson, once chief of staff to Bush's first secretary of state, Colin Powell, in a lawsuit filed by a former Guantanamo inmate and published by The Times in London.

They were also keen to avoid revealing the "incredibly confused" detention operation, Wilkerson said, claiming prisoners were often rounded up by Afghan and Pakistani forces in return for cash, with little or no evidence as to why.

He alleged Cheney "had absolutely no concern that the vast majority of Guantanamo detainees were innocent... If hundreds of innocent individuals had to suffer in order to detain a handful of hardcore terrorists, so be it".
Wilkerson, who according to The Times has been a long-time critic of the Bush administration's approach to counter-terrorism, said he discussed the issue with Powell, who left his job in 2005.

"I learnt that it was his view that it was not just vice president Cheney and secretary Rumsfeld, but also president Bush who was involved in all of the Guantanamo decision-making," the newspaper reported him as saying.
Wilkerson's statement was filed in support of Adel Hassan Hamad, a Sudanese man held at Guantanamo Bay from March 2003 until December 2007. He claims he was tortured by US agents and filed a damages action Thursday, The Times said.

Another nail in the coffin for Bush and Cheney, who not only lied to all of us all in order to wage their War-of-Choice but, also knowingly imprisoned innocent people in this quest.

When will our leaders have enough evidence, or should I say 'enough courage', to bring these criminals to justice? I wonder, who will be the first Repub leader to come out condemning the Bush administration's criminal actions?
 
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Gawd, liberals are weak.
 
Gawd, liberals are weak.

Yeah, we liberals get bothered by things like government detaining hundreds of innocent people without any sort of due process. We're weird that way.

edit: Although the OP's link is broken so I don't personally see any evidence that this is what happened.
 
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Gawd, liberals are weak.

Super weak.

And this isn't news. Its partisan hack BS.

Of course no evidence to support this charge other than the accusation either.

Shocker :2wave:
 
Super weak.

And this isn't news. Its partisan hack BS.

Of course no evidence to support this charge other than the accusation either.

Shocker :2wave:

But I thought we wanted to control everything you say and do?
 
Yeah, we liberals get bothered by things like government detaining hundreds of innocent people without any sort of due process. We're weird that way.

Go ahead and produce the evidence we detained hundreds of innocent people
 
Not following. What's strong about punishing the innocent?

It's a f***ing war! You can't fight it like the Mulberry police department.

It's a good thing we didn't fight WWII like liberals would suggest. We'd all have Adolph's picture on our walls.
 
Go ahead and produce the evidence we detained hundreds of innocent people

Let's see.

We don't have to prove man-made global warming for it to be deemed true.

We don't have to prove the n-word was yelled at lawmakers for it to be deemed true.

We don't have to prove Gitmo detainees are innocent for it to be deemed true.

I sense a pattern here.
 
This may be true about Bush or may not. Until the courts have ruled, I will have to say it is a unproven claim.
 
Let's see.

We don't have to prove man-made global warming for it to be deemed true.

We don't have to prove the n-word was yelled at lawmakers for it to be deemed true.

We don't have to prove Gitmo detainees are innocent for it to be deemed true.

I sense a pattern here.

Typical pattern.
 
Let's see.

We don't have to prove man-made global warming for it to be deemed true.

We don't have to prove the n-word was yelled at lawmakers for it to be deemed true.

We don't have to prove Gitmo detainees are innocent for it to be deemed true.

I sense a pattern here.

There's mountains of scientific evidence supporting global warming so I'm not sure that one fits your profile here.
 
There's mountains of scientific evidence supporting global warming so I'm not sure that one fits your profile here.

There's mountains of evidence supporting global cooling, too.
 
There's mountains of evidence supporting global cooling, too.

No there isn't. Like 7 papers published in the 70's, is not mountains of evidence. You should stop making such bold statements about things you don't understand.
 
… I wonder, who will be the first Repub leader to come out condemning the Bush administration's criminal actions?

Oh, I wouldn't hold my breath on that happening any time soon. The Republican Party hasn't exactly been a source of profiles in courage since President Ford was ushered off the stage.
 
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amid fears releasing them could harm the 'war on terror'

So we need to be scared and lock up the innocents cuz it could hurt the war... Not be scared of the war hurtign innocents... They wore their priorities right their sleeve. Ideas and control are more important than the innocent. Gotcha. The paying other factions money for rounding up people wholesale better be fake.
 
Let's see.

We don't have to prove man-made global warming for it to be deemed true.

We don't have to prove the n-word was yelled at lawmakers for it to be deemed true.

We don't have to prove Gitmo detainees are innocent for it to be deemed true.

I sense a pattern here.

The pattern is that kool-aid drinking rightees don't believe any proof when it is provided by anyone except their kool-aid dispensing lying leaders. That's not what "justice is blind" means. :roll:

It's always entertaining how the right "eats their own" when one of their former heroes comes forward after witnessing illegalities. Wilkerson and Powell were well respected military men and Republicans serving on a very neo-con administration. Both of them have come forward chastising the Bush administration on a number of issues. To do so takes honor and courage. Qualities their former bosses never possessed.

This country has a credo, make that a law, stating "innocent until proven guilty". Yet, right wing zealots don't think that applies to anyone taken prisoner under the banner of Bush's "War on Terror". Rewards were offered and people were "given up" for the reward. No proof was required before those people were thrown in jail. How is this a Repub or Dem issue?
 
Oh, I wouldn't hold my breath on that happening any time soon. The Republican Party hasn't exactly been a source of profiles in courage since President Ford was ushered off the stage.

Just to make the point, George Bush the elder was a WW2 hero. Name calling does not serve us well.
 
The pattern is that kool-aid drinking rightees don't believe any proof when it is provided by anyone except their kool-aid dispensing lying leaders. That's not what "justice is blind" means. :roll:

It's always entertaining how the right "eats their own" when one of their former heroes comes forward after witnessing illegalities. Wilkerson and Powell were well respected military men and Republicans serving on a very neo-con administration. Both of them have come forward chastising the Bush administration on a number of issues. To do so takes honor and courage. Qualities their former bosses never possessed.

This country has a credo, make that a law, stating "innocent until proven guilty". Yet, right wing zealots don't think that applies to anyone taken prisoner under the banner of Bush's "War on Terror". Rewards were offered and people were "given up" for the reward. No proof was required before those people were thrown in jail. How is this a Repub or Dem issue?

Blah, blah, blah. Mindless drivel.

Still waiting for the proof that these guys were innocent. Not expecting it, so carry on......

Now take a deep breath.......and........"Bush, Bush, Bush, Bush, Bush, Bush....."

The brainwashing is confounding.
 
Just to make the point, George Bush the elder was a WW2 hero. Name calling does not serve us well.

I don't recall name calling on my part. You seem to be the aggressor.

GHWB was the youngest American pilot in WWII. We should honor his service to the nation then and all his other service, too. But I also recall the “Read my lips …” line which was a cowardly concession to the radicals in his party. I recall the [paraphrased] “I wasn't in the room” excuse when the arms for hostages deal was revealed. I recall the 1988 Willie Horton ad which played on racial stereotypes. And, on and on. GHWB should be honored but his was not a profile in courage in the years following Ford's departure.
 
Of course they knew there were a bunch of innocent people in Gitmo!!!

Do you seriously think that they believed they were all guilty?

I thought this was common knowledge by like 2005.
 
Just to make the point, George Bush the elder was a WW2 hero. Name calling does not serve us well.

Being a war hero is not a guarantee that that person will lead our country honorably. Bush the elder proved this when he illegally worked a deal with Iran, under the direction of Reagan, to hold American hostages longer than would have normally happened and then release them 20 minutes after Reagan was sworn in (in January) just to curry favor with the American people and to prevent their release before the election (in November - 3 months earlier!) while Carter was president. Just sayin.

Wilkerson and Powell are true heroes. Heroes don't blindly follow lying, criminally acting presidents. They stand up to them. :2usflag:
 
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