Comments on: Choosing the Least Bad Option http://floppingaces.net/2009/05/29/choosing-the-least-bad-option/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=choosing-the-least-bad-option Fri, 10 Feb 2012 21:27:57 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: John Brennan: “[Guantanamo] has served as a propaganda tool for Al Qaeda.” *UPDATE* http://floppingaces.net/2009/05/29/choosing-the-least-bad-option/#comment-262025 John Brennan: “[Guantanamo] has served as a propaganda tool for Al Qaeda.” *UPDATE* Wed, 06 Jan 2010 05:00:03 +0000 http://www.floppingaces.net/?p=22357#comment-262025 [...] as propaganda fodder for al Qaeda. But you defeat that with counter-propaganda. Guantanamo remains the least bad option for holding committed Islamic terror nuts. We’ve poured over $54 million into making Gitmo [...]

[...] as propaganda fodder for al Qaeda. But you defeat that with counter-propaganda. Guantanamo remains the least bad option for holding committed Islamic terror nuts. We’ve poured over $54 million into making Gitmo [...]

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]]> By: Flopping Aces » Blog Archive » Well…..duh http://floppingaces.net/2009/05/29/choosing-the-least-bad-option/#comment-252148 Flopping Aces » Blog Archive » Well…..duh Thu, 15 Oct 2009 19:15:54 +0000 http://www.floppingaces.net/?p=22357#comment-252148 [...] remains the least bad option.  Print This Post This entry was posted on Thursday, October 15th, 2009 at 12:15 pm and is [...]

[...] remains the least bad option.  Print This Post This entry was posted on Thursday, October 15th, 2009 at 12:15 pm and is [...]

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]]> By: Flopping Aces » Blog Archive » GWoRIT vs. OCO: Which has made/is making America Safer? http://floppingaces.net/2009/05/29/choosing-the-least-bad-option/#comment-247042 Flopping Aces » Blog Archive » GWoRIT vs. OCO: Which has made/is making America Safer? Tue, 01 Sep 2009 16:17:14 +0000 http://www.floppingaces.net/?p=22357#comment-247042 [...] Gitmo? Really?!? Please wake me when it actually [...]

[...] Gitmo? Really?!? Please wake me when it actually [...]

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]]> By: Flopping Aces » Blog Archive » Poll finds most Americans oppose the closing of Gitmo http://floppingaces.net/2009/05/29/choosing-the-least-bad-option/#comment-208534 Flopping Aces » Blog Archive » Poll finds most Americans oppose the closing of Gitmo Tue, 02 Jun 2009 17:26:39 +0000 http://www.floppingaces.net/?p=22357#comment-208534 [...] A painted marker in a recreation yard points the direction to Mecca at Camp Delta where detainees are held at the United States Naval Base in Guantanamo Bay, January 18, 2006. REUTERS/Joe Skipper While Dick Cheney is not backing down from his claims regarding enhanced interrogations conducted in the early days of the war on terror, a recent poll, for whatever these are worth, has it that most Americans are in agreement with Dick Cheney’s belief that Guantanamo should remain open for business, the least bad option. [...]

[...] A painted marker in a recreation yard points the direction to Mecca at Camp Delta where detainees are held at the United States Naval Base in Guantanamo Bay, January 18, 2006. REUTERS/Joe Skipper While Dick Cheney is not backing down from his claims regarding enhanced interrogations conducted in the early days of the war on terror, a recent poll, for whatever these are worth, has it that most Americans are in agreement with Dick Cheney’s belief that Guantanamo should remain open for business, the least bad option. [...]

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]]> By: Wordsmith http://floppingaces.net/2009/05/29/choosing-the-least-bad-option/#comment-206915 Wordsmith Sat, 30 May 2009 06:45:17 +0000 http://www.floppingaces.net/?p=22357#comment-206915 Post updated with the following: <blockquote>From Douglas Feith's <em>War and Decision</em>, pg 160: <blockquote>Rumsfeld was displeased to have the Defense Department take on the detention mission and protested the idea repeatedly. But he knew that intelligence from these detainees could help save lives. We could not count on any other country to perform the mission- and no other agency of the U.S. government was ready to do it. So Rumsfeld accepted the task, though he told his staff from the outset that the responsibility would be a source of more trouble and more criticism than anyone could predict. It proved every bit as bad as he anticipated.</blockquote></blockquote>

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From Douglas Feith’s War and Decision, pg 160:

Rumsfeld was displeased to have the Defense Department take on the detention mission and protested the idea repeatedly. But he knew that intelligence from these detainees could help save lives. We could not count on any other country to perform the mission- and no other agency of the U.S. government was ready to do it. So Rumsfeld accepted the task, though he told his staff from the outset that the responsibility would be a source of more trouble and more criticism than anyone could predict. It proved every bit as bad as he anticipated.

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]]> By: Flopping Aces » Blog Archive » Broadcasting Our Playbook to the Enemy http://floppingaces.net/2009/05/29/choosing-the-least-bad-option/#comment-206911 Flopping Aces » Blog Archive » Broadcasting Our Playbook to the Enemy Sat, 30 May 2009 06:26:48 +0000 http://www.floppingaces.net/?p=22357#comment-206911 [...] with the benefit of the doubt given to terrorists. When Guantanamo is compared to Soviet gulags, nothing could be further from the reality. Yet popular perception has been shaped to the point of Guantanamo being irredeemable; and even [...]

[...] with the benefit of the doubt given to terrorists. When Guantanamo is compared to Soviet gulags, nothing could be further from the reality. Yet popular perception has been shaped to the point of Guantanamo being irredeemable; and even [...]

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]]> By: nell http://floppingaces.net/2009/05/29/choosing-the-least-bad-option/#comment-206670 nell Fri, 29 May 2009 17:32:43 +0000 http://www.floppingaces.net/?p=22357#comment-206670 Good idea. Since King Barry ascended the throne, Guantanamo has been liberally innundated with pixie dust and unicorn farts so that it is now a state of the art containment and rehabilitation center for misguided yoots. Old Europe needs to wake up to the new reality.

Good idea. Since King Barry ascended the throne, Guantanamo has been liberally innundated with pixie dust and unicorn farts so that it is now a state of the art containment and rehabilitation center for misguided yoots. Old Europe needs to wake up to the new reality.

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]]> By: eaglewingz08 http://floppingaces.net/2009/05/29/choosing-the-least-bad-option/#comment-206637 eaglewingz08 Fri, 29 May 2009 15:48:27 +0000 http://www.floppingaces.net/?p=22357#comment-206637 Why should it matter if the USA releases or doesn't release any of the GITMO combatants to US soil? After all, the USA is a knuckle crawling barbaric country according to the Euros, who repeatedly state how morally superior their country and continent is to the USA. So if the Euros are so superior, they would NEVER let the morally inferior acts of the USA dictate their own actions. However, that being said, it is wonderful to have all these hypocritical anti american poseurs have to choke on their words.

Why should it matter if the USA releases or doesn’t release any of the GITMO combatants to US soil? After all, the USA is a knuckle crawling barbaric country according to the Euros, who repeatedly state how morally superior their country and continent is to the USA. So if the Euros are so superior, they would NEVER let the morally inferior acts of the USA dictate their own actions.
However, that being said, it is wonderful to have all these hypocritical anti american poseurs have to choke on their words.

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