The Gitmo 'confessions' - why they HURT the US of A

First off, if any of the people who confessed to terrorism crimes did, in fact, commit those crimes, they get not one whit of sympathy from me. I wish them an eternity in the fires of Hell.

But ya see, here's the thing. How can we take any comfort in what's being reported out of Gitmo. Four years after going there, four years after the US GOVERNMENT started what is alleged by many to have been torturous treatment of the detainees, four years after the 'splendor' that was Shock and Awe®, these cinfessions have been conveniently announced.

No doubt death penalty announcements will son follow.

But already we're starting to see fallout from these 'confessions'. Some yahoo jailed in the Middle East and charged with complicity in the Embassy Bombings (or was it the Cole? Or maybe 9/11 itself) is now saying he shoudl be released because the other yahoo in Gitmo just confessed to the same crime.

And if, as all evidence indicates, the yahoos in Gitmo confessed because of torture, then how can we be sure we even have the right yahoos. The guilty yahoos may well still be out there, plotting, even as we speak.

Or not.

But because of the shitty job we did in eliciting these confessions, we may NEVER know the truth.

And you know ...... all we had to do was apply that wonderful, but nowadays quaint, Rule of Law.

Sad.

But for the Neocons and the Bushies and the rubber stamp Republicans, the Rule of Law no longer matters. Just loook at how they comport themselves. NOTHING they do is legal.

Not one fucking thing.

Four years, many lies, many deceptions, and now these, very quite likely, sham confessions.

Will we EVER know the truth?

And are the real bad guys still out there?

The only thing I do know with certainty is that a person who is tortured will confess to anything.

no, we will never know the truth.

And yes, the bad guys are still out there, they are currently still running this country.