Why are liberals so supportive of Gitmo prisoners?

Question

why do they need rights? they are terrorists and need to be tortured as well!!!!

God Bless America and GWB

Answer 1

Because the really don't support the military but lack the backbone to admit, so they support the enemies of the military and the American people.

Answer 2

Because stooping to the level of terrorists is not something a nation that claims to defend justice would do. We did not create our court system because we thought it was some special privilege only Americans should have; we developed it to test the guilt or innocence of a person. The people in Gitmo never had their guilt tested; Bush just declared them "enemy combatants" so they could slip through the cracks of the law. If American is at war, like conservatives always assert, and these are the enemies we are fighting in that war, why aren't they classified as prisoners of war? It all comes down to whether we will stand by the convictions we hold so highly, or will we become no better than the terrorists.

Answer 3

Well, despite what appears to be a joke, I'll answer since people in this country actually say things like that seriously.

The basic reason prisoners have rights is because we can't always be sure a prisoner is -guilty-. In fact, what usually happens in wartime is we would have little makeshift courts that would attempt to determine if a wartime prisoner was, in fact, useful to be imprisoned or 'guilty.' Concordantly, many people were released since in combat situations a lot of people get grabbed as there is little time to sit and think about it.
Unfortunately, this has not been the case with our presence in Iraq and Afghanistan, and many people have actually been wrongfully imprisoned in these places where they are not allowed any ability to prove themselves innocent.

Answer 4

Human rights? The prisoners are gaining weight and feverishly resist being sent to other prisons; those run by their fellow Muslims in particular

The Geneva Convention? It does not apply here; these people were not wearing uniforms with recognizable insignias when captured. Following the convention when the other side is not is nothing but suicidal.

The reason the support the Gitmo prisoners s that they are anti US and especially ant military, they just do not have the backbone to admit it..

Answer 5

By asserting that other people do not need rights, by advocating the use of torture, you are branding yourself anti-American and against all that America supposedly stands for.
I suspect that this may make you a threat to America.

As a suspect, you are now, by your own rules liable to torture and imprisonment without charge, representation or any hope of release.

They may be coming to get you.

Answer 6

How do you know they are terrorists? We let a whole bunch of them go because we found out they had done nothing wrong?
And besides that - what gives you a right to determine who should be tortured given US and international law says nobody should be (yes even terrorists).

Answer 7

You are looking at the situation with one eye shut. Open them both and you will see the truth. Not only is the situation at Gitmo against international law, it is also against our own. If this were allowed to go unchallenged, you, me, anyone could be branded a threat, and locked up indefinately. Think about that for a moment.

Answer 8

The Geneva Convention applies to uniformed soldiers, these guys were caught carrying weapons on a battlefield in civilian clothing. The Geneva Convention does not apply. Read your history books, for centuries, what we call "enemy combatants" were summarily executed on the spot on battlefields all over the world. We treat them better than they have a right to be treated. As for the ignorant comment about us treating their guys better and they'll treat ours better, need I remind you of televised beheadings and the dragging of dead American troops through the streets? Wake up. Don't let your hatred of G.W. cloud your thinking.

Answer 9

Human rights?

The Geneva Convention?

If we treat our enemies badly when they are our prisoners, can we expect better treatment from our enemies, concerning their treatment of our captured soldiers?

We need to establish the rules of engagement by example, by recognizing and adhering to necessity to not violate human rights in interrorgating prisoners.

Answer 10

Well! the closest i can come to an answer is....
"everybody needs somebody,sometime".

Ahhhhhhh,sing it Dean baby.......