Rendition?! How’s the Left Going to Spin That? February 2 2009
I woke up this morning to see the words scrolling across the bottom of the screen on Fox News Channel that President Barack Obama plans to expand the practice of rendition in the war on terror. At first I thought I was mistaken; I must still be exhausted from the night before and the TREMENDOUS STEELERS VICTORY or something. Then I thought Fox must have it wrong. There’s no way Obama would support rendition. Finally I thought I must still be sleeping, and having a very strange dream.
Turns out that the story is true. And I still can’t believe it.
So let me see if I have this right. For the past eight years, the left has been calling President George W. Bush a war criminal largely because of the treatment of prisoners in Guantanamo Bay and his desire to keep waterboarding available as a option for use in interrogation.
Therefore, in an effort to prevent the supposed abuse of the prisoners, Obama has decided to close Gitmo. Also, he has decided to no longer leave waterboarding open as a possible interrogation technique.
Now we learn that instead of keeping prisoners in Gitmo where they might possibly be waterboarded, Obama is going to send them to third-world hellholes where they will experience sadistic acts upon which there can be no question about whether or not they are torture. Is that about right? Oh, but Obama assures us that we aren’t going to send anyone to countries that will torture anyone. Right. Of course not. Instead, the country we’re sending them to will send them to the third-world hellholes.
Rendition. That is one American policy which I never supported and never will support. How on earth could we ever think that it was fine to hand prisoners over to other countries for torture? That is as barbaric as it is cowardly!
How could one possibly rationalize the idea that we should close Gitmo because prisoners there might possibly be mistreated, while at the same time supporting a policy of rendition which ensures that our prisoners will not only be mistreated, but are likely to be savagely tortured? Has the world gone mad?
I don’t agree with the left on much, but I can’t support rendition. And if the left doesn’t demand that Obama put an end to this practice out of loyalty to their dear leader, they are the most despicably dishonest people in the world.
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