Charlatan, I was reacting to these comments of politicophile:
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Originally Posted by politicophile
....I find the administration's argument that poems are formatted in a way that makes concealment of hidden messages easier to be relatively pursuasive.....
.....The administration has done a very effective job of making people forget about Gitmo's existence and a collection of poetry like this one would significantly impair this effort.....
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politicophile's comments were in the first post to respond to roachboy's OP.
I maintain that it is not possible to find the <i>"the administration's argument that poems are formatted in a way that makes concealment of hidden messages easier to be relatively pursuasive"</i> if one considers the false and misleading statements from the administration, concerning who the prisoners are and where they were actually "captured".
Below, I've posted support for my opinion that contradicts politicophile's opinion that <i>"The administration has done a very effective job of making people forget about Gitmo's existence and a collection of poetry like this one would signficantly impair this effort"....</i>
I'll admit that I'm too distracted by the intentional "painting" of the large majority of Guantanamo detainees as "combatants" swept off "the battlefield" into detention, when the bulk of them were simply "fingered", in response to a bounty incentive from the US government, and were not from or in Afghanistan when they were "sold" to the US, to focus on the issues that prompted politicophile's posted comments.....
.....while IMO, politicophile is commenting within the framework of the US officials' "paint job" about the "guilt" of the detainees, without allowing them fair hearings that would confirm or refute official allegations....
I see nothing to indicate that the Bush admin. is attempting to "hide" or distract attention to the existence of the Guantanamo prison. I think that one of the primary reasons that it was created is for use as deterrent propaganda:
http://www.whitehouse.gov/news/relea...0060906-3.html
September 6, 2006
President Discusses Creation of Military Commissions to Try Suspected Terrorists
President says the word Guantanamo, 21 times....
http://www.whitehouse.gov/news/relea...0060907-2.html
September 7, 2006
President Bush Discusses Progress in the Global War on Terror
President says the word Guantanamo, 2 times....
http://www.whitehouse.gov/news/relea.../20060909.html
September 9, 2006
President's Radio Address
President says the word Guantanamo, 1 time....
http://www.whitehouse.gov/news/relea...0060911-3.html
September 11, 2006
President's Address to the Nation
President says the word Guantanamo, 1 time....
http://www.whitehouse.gov/news/relea.../20060916.html
September 16, 2006
President's Radio Address
President says the word Guantanamo, 1 time....
Quote:
http://www.whitehouse.gov/news/relea...0061218-5.html
For Immediate Release
Office of the Press Secretary
December 18, 2006
Text of a Letter from the President to the Speaker of the House of Representatives and the President Pro Tempore of the Senate
....The United States continues to detain several hundred al Qaida and Taliban fighters who are believed to pose a continuing threat to the United States and its interests. The combat equipped and combat support forces deployed to Naval Base, Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, in the U.S. Southern Command area of operations since January 2002 continue to conduct secure detention operations for the approximately 435 enemy combatants at Guantanamo Bay......
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The DOD created and approved the following, on it's website, this year:
http://www.defenselink.mil/home/features/gitmo/
January 11, 2007
Guantanamo "feature" web page, with link to "photo gallery" advertising "42 photos".
...and this....
New Guantanamo Facility Safer for Guards
WASHINGTON, Jan. 11, 2007 – Five years after the first detainees from the war on terror arrived at Naval Station Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, a new state-of-the-art facility there is making duty safer for guards and more comfortable for detainees. Story
• Guantanamo Facility Needed ‘for Foreseeable Future’
Court Rules Against Guantanamo Detainee
WASHINGTON, Dec. 14, 2006 – Upholding the legality of October’s Military Commissions Act, a federal court ruled here yesterday that detainees at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, do not have the right to challenge their detention in U.S. courts. Story
Outdated Perceptions Frustrate Troops
U.S. NAVAL STATION GUANTANAMO BAY, Cuba, Dec. 1, 2006 – A 28-year-old block guard here whose mission is to ensure the safe care and custody of enemy combatants said he wishes the world had an accurate picture of the place where he serves. Story
Cold War History Played Out at Northeast Gate
U.S. NAVAL STATION GUANTANAMO BAY, Cuba, Nov. 30, 2006 – Even as deployed National Guard members make history serving with Joint Task Force Guantanamo, they find history at the base’s Northeast Gate. Story
....and links to"
Related Stories
GITMO MISSION
Links to 35 "news reports", re: Guantanamo
GITMO PROCEEDINGS
Links to 35 "news reports", re: Guantanamo