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Here again, Bush was right


By Emilio Campmany

"Detainees at Guantanamo are terrorists that only possible to prove that were training for attacks, so that, as in America there is no crime of belonging to terrorist organization, would be released. "

Obama said he would end Bush's counterterrorism policy. More specifically, he promised closing Guantanamo and bringing those detained there before the American Civil Justice. His arguments were not only humanitarian in nature but were also based on the realism of Pepis Miss you both like the self-proclaimed "moderate left." Guantanamo said the president, is counterproductive because it causes so much irritation in the Muslim world, which is the pretext with which Al Qaeda recruit more terrorists many U.S. forces are able to stop. In other words, the worst of Bush is that his policy would be immoral, the most serious is that it was wrong from the strategic standpoint.

The fact is that the Democratic candidate, made to discredit Guantánamo, he managed to defeat first to Hillary Clinton, who did not dare to defend Bush, despite being essentially agree with him, and then McCain who, in an attitude arriolesca, reneged on the policy of former president and now shakes Rajoy Aznar.

Well now comes Obama and not only close Guantanamo, which promised would be made by January 2010, but has ordered that prisoners who remain in the database are made available to the military commissions created by Bush and that Obama ordered a halt. And where is now the danger that bin Laden flushed swell to recruit Muslims outraged by the shame of Guantánamo?

Poor Obama! He wants, but the powerful do not let him. What fun to see our media rack your brains to find a way to explain how come Obama, handsome and good at Guantanamo have the same policy as Bush, bad and ugly. See how he does the correspondent of El Pais in Washington, "Obama has faced three major problems to close the detention camp: the fact that many foreign countries have evaded host inmates captured in Afghanistan, the refusal to accept U.S. states in its prisons, and the doubts of civil judicial system of how to judge these inmates, many of whose confessions were obtained with methods that under U.S. law would be considered torture. "

The problem is not that. The problem is that most of the detainees at Guantanamo are terrorists that is only possible prove that were training for attacks, so that, as in the United States there is no crime of belonging to terrorist organization would be released. And if not why, they would be detained without having been read his rights (which they did because they were prisoners of war, suspected offenders). So if Obama would have brought before the civil courts, most have been released, roam freely through the territory of the Union. What is Obama's political future if, as is most likely, one of the terrorists released their fault committed a serious violation? And as we are concerned, why should we accept on our territory or people that Obama wants to meet his lovely leftism in the streets of their cities?

Overall, this also in Guantanamo, Bush was right. This time, not me. San says Barack Obama, Nobel Peace Prize. Via

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