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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.
Gawd, liberals are weak.
Gawd, liberals are weak.
Gawd, liberals are weak.
Not following. What's strong about punishing the innocent?
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:
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.
Not following. What's strong about punishing the innocent?
But I thought we wanted to control everything you say and do?
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.
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 evidence supporting global cooling, too.
… I wonder, who will be the first Repub leader to come out condemning the Bush administration's criminal actions?
amid fears releasing them could harm the 'war on terror'
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.
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.
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.
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?
Just to make the point, George Bush the elder was a WW2 hero. Name calling does not serve us well.
Just to make the point, George Bush the elder was a WW2 hero. Name calling does not serve us well.
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