Posted by
Always To The Right on Sunday, May 31, 2009 2:19:28 PM
Barack Obama has decided to fight the release of the 17 Chinese Uighers at Guantanamo Bay into the US, Jake Tapper reports
— and he’s choosing an interesting argument to use. While Obama has
wasted no opportunity to paint Gitmo as a stain on the nation’s
reputation and all but the gulag Dick Durbin called it a few years ago,
the administration paints quite a different picture of it in court
In fact, the conditions at the rest of the facility also are pretty
decent, compared to conditions in max-security prisons elsewhere in the
US. The military runs a tight ship at Gitmo, but the prisoners have a
standard of living that — apart from their detention — exceeds anything
available to them in their home countries, free or not. They certainly
don’t want to be there any more than the Uighers, but as the
administration admits in this filing, they’re being detained under the
“laws of war.”