Pete Hoekstra: The Terrorists at Gitmo Are a Bigger Threat Than the Nazis Were

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And it's absolute damn nonsense.

Yes, they are a huge threat to the powers that be because each one is a potential witness in torture trials.

name and he has forgotten the way people felt about American Germans in both WWI & WWII? He is an idiot.

This guy is so full of bullshit.
He obviously doesn't know WW2 history at all, and should not use it for hyperbolic straw-man propaganda, or he is a fucking liar.
are they trying to say the the una-bombers el al. that we have locked up now, that have actually conducted terrorism, are less dangerous than a bunch of poor bastards that were swept up for no reason and then had the shit tortured out of them for seven years?
These assholes are the most cynical disingenuous sanctimonious fucks ever!

When I lived in Germany and Austria, I was occasionally stopped by older men (unusual since they were strangers to me) who wanted to thank me for how well they were treated as prisoners of war living on farms in the U.S. during and after WWII.

We could have gained so much and made at least a few friends had we treated these prisoners decently. What idiots people like Hoekstra are. They posit the idea that there are droves and droves of rigid, hateful people out there who never want to change or learn from other cultures. Of course, that is called projection. Hoekstra and his friends on the far right are projecting their own personality traits on people they have never met.

The Germans were fanatics as were the Japanese. The German prisoners of war were relatively free and integrated into our society -- although they had been completely made into NAZI fanatics by the German propaganda.

Our treatment of the prisoners from Afghanistan and Iraq justified their hatred of us. It confirmed all the evil lies they had been fed about the American people. Just how did that make us safer? It didn't.

We continue to treat them as if they are sane. Why? The twisted truth or lies they tell is easy enough to prove one way or another. Why don't we do it? Then remove them from office.