Comments on: FDL Book Salon Welcomes Andy Worthington: The Guantanamo Files http://firedoglake.com/2008/10/04/fdl-book-salon-welcomes-andy-worthington-the-guantanamo-files/ Firedoglake weblog Wed, 25 Nov 2009 01:31:59 -0600 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.6 hourly 1 By: mui1 http://firedoglake.com/2008/10/04/fdl-book-salon-welcomes-andy-worthington-the-guantanamo-files/#comment-1666679 mui1 Sat, 04 Oct 2008 23:11:07 +0000 http://firedoglake.com/2008/10/04/fdl-book-salon-welcomes-andy-worthington-the-guantanamo-files/#comment-1666679 <p>I think we need to be fired up time and time again over this issue. The story of some of these detainees is too haunting. Will definitely try to keep up with what’s on your site.</p> I think we need to be fired up time and time again over this issue. The story of some of these detainees is too haunting. Will definitely try to keep up with what’s on your site.

]]> By: CTuttle http://firedoglake.com/2008/10/04/fdl-book-salon-welcomes-andy-worthington-the-guantanamo-files/#comment-1666674 CTuttle Sat, 04 Oct 2008 23:04:08 +0000 http://firedoglake.com/2008/10/04/fdl-book-salon-welcomes-andy-worthington-the-guantanamo-files/#comment-1666674 <p>Much Mahalo (Thanks) for spending time here at the Lake, and, we appreciate all your efforts at exposing the fallacies…!</p> Much Mahalo (Thanks) for spending time here at the Lake, and, we appreciate all your efforts at exposing the fallacies…!

]]> By: CTuttle http://firedoglake.com/2008/10/04/fdl-book-salon-welcomes-andy-worthington-the-guantanamo-files/#comment-1666673 CTuttle Sat, 04 Oct 2008 23:01:31 +0000 http://firedoglake.com/2008/10/04/fdl-book-salon-welcomes-andy-worthington-the-guantanamo-files/#comment-1666673 <p>It might’ve been Goldsmith… I found it interesting that Condi also had a role in the torture debate within the WH early on in ‘02… Some serious shirt going on from the get go with this Maladministration, eh?</p> It might’ve been Goldsmith… I found it interesting that Condi also had a role in the torture debate within the WH early on in ‘02… Some serious shirt going on from the get go with this Maladministration, eh?

]]> By: mui1 http://firedoglake.com/2008/10/04/fdl-book-salon-welcomes-andy-worthington-the-guantanamo-files/#comment-1666672 mui1 Sat, 04 Oct 2008 23:01:21 +0000 http://firedoglake.com/2008/10/04/fdl-book-salon-welcomes-andy-worthington-the-guantanamo-files/#comment-1666672 <p>Addington’s name crops up again and again.</p> Addington’s name crops up again and again.

]]> By: Stacy Sullivan http://firedoglake.com/2008/10/04/fdl-book-salon-welcomes-andy-worthington-the-guantanamo-files/#comment-1666671 Stacy Sullivan Sat, 04 Oct 2008 23:00:58 +0000 http://firedoglake.com/2008/10/04/fdl-book-salon-welcomes-andy-worthington-the-guantanamo-files/#comment-1666671 <p>Thanks much Andy. Speak soon. </p> <p>Thanks Bev. </p> <p>Happy rest of the weekend everyone.<br /> Stacy</p> Thanks much Andy. Speak soon.

Thanks Bev.

Happy rest of the weekend everyone.
Stacy

]]> By: talkingdog http://firedoglake.com/2008/10/04/fdl-book-salon-welcomes-andy-worthington-the-guantanamo-files/#comment-1666670 talkingdog Sat, 04 Oct 2008 23:00:37 +0000 http://firedoglake.com/2008/10/04/fdl-book-salon-welcomes-andy-worthington-the-guantanamo-files/#comment-1666670 <p>Release… somewhere. To Albania for Uighurs, for example. To their home countries unless they torture or worse… to…? All part of the Orwellian game.</p> Release… somewhere. To Albania for Uighurs, for example. To their home countries unless they torture or worse… to…? All part of the Orwellian game.

]]> By: Andy Worthington http://firedoglake.com/2008/10/04/fdl-book-salon-welcomes-andy-worthington-the-guantanamo-files/#comment-1666669 Andy Worthington Sat, 04 Oct 2008 23:00:04 +0000 http://firedoglake.com/2008/10/04/fdl-book-salon-welcomes-andy-worthington-the-guantanamo-files/#comment-1666669 <p>Stacy, Bev, everyone who’s contributed:<br /> Thanks for taking part.<br /> In response to the question, I think it encapsulates perfectly the bleak and distressing farce that is the “War on Terror”. Hamdan was sentenced by military personnel in a trial system conceived in the Office of the Vice President. But when it didn’t go how the administration wanted, they start complaining. They’re presumably doing this because they have, finally, worked out that holding Hamdan as an “enemy combatant” after his sentence ends, which is what they claimed they had the right to do, would have shamed even Stalin, and so are now trying another desperate ploy.<br /> I hope you all see through it, and that you encourage others to do so.<br /> Thanks again.<br /> Come and see me at: <a href="http://www.andyworthington.co.uk" rel="nofollow">http://www.andyworthington.co.uk</a></p> Stacy, Bev, everyone who’s contributed:
Thanks for taking part.
In response to the question, I think it encapsulates perfectly the bleak and distressing farce that is the “War on Terror”. Hamdan was sentenced by military personnel in a trial system conceived in the Office of the Vice President. But when it didn’t go how the administration wanted, they start complaining. They’re presumably doing this because they have, finally, worked out that holding Hamdan as an “enemy combatant” after his sentence ends, which is what they claimed they had the right to do, would have shamed even Stalin, and so are now trying another desperate ploy.
I hope you all see through it, and that you encourage others to do so.
Thanks again.
Come and see me at: http://www.andyworthington.co.uk

]]> By: talkingdog http://firedoglake.com/2008/10/04/fdl-book-salon-welcomes-andy-worthington-the-guantanamo-files/#comment-1666668 talkingdog Sat, 04 Oct 2008 22:59:42 +0000 http://firedoglake.com/2008/10/04/fdl-book-salon-welcomes-andy-worthington-the-guantanamo-files/#comment-1666668 <p>My understanding is that it’s a conventional criminal appeal <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jos%C3%A9_Padilla_" rel="nofollow">http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jos%C3%A9_Padilla_</a>(prisoner) pending before the 11th Cir. Ct of Appeals in Atlanta, and it will take however long it takes…</p> My understanding is that it’s a conventional criminal appeal http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jos%C3%A9_Padilla_(prisoner) pending before the 11th Cir. Ct of Appeals in Atlanta, and it will take however long it takes…

]]> By: talkingdog http://firedoglake.com/2008/10/04/fdl-book-salon-welcomes-andy-worthington-the-guantanamo-files/#comment-1666667 talkingdog Sat, 04 Oct 2008 22:57:44 +0000 http://firedoglake.com/2008/10/04/fdl-book-salon-welcomes-andy-worthington-the-guantanamo-files/#comment-1666667 <p>Funny you say that… we even have our own “GTMO”… a Ft. off of Brooklyn (Ft. Lafayette) was used by Lincoln to lock up dissenters during the Civil War… of course, that was a genuine “invasion or rebellion”. Still, what’s old is new again.</p> Funny you say that… we even have our own “GTMO”… a Ft. off of Brooklyn (Ft. Lafayette) was used by Lincoln to lock up dissenters during the Civil War… of course, that was a genuine “invasion or rebellion”. Still, what’s old is new again.

]]> By: mui1 http://firedoglake.com/2008/10/04/fdl-book-salon-welcomes-andy-worthington-the-guantanamo-files/#comment-1666666 mui1 Sat, 04 Oct 2008 22:56:50 +0000 http://firedoglake.com/2008/10/04/fdl-book-salon-welcomes-andy-worthington-the-guantanamo-files/#comment-1666666 <p><strike>sacred</strike> scared. Excuse typo.</p> sacred scared. Excuse typo.

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