Guantanamo is a Club Med resort compared to the hellhole that was Andersonville
President Obama is determined to shut down the terrorist detention camp at the U.S. Naval Base in Guantanamo Bay, Cuba. Obama and his liberal supporters are upset that suspected Islamic terrorists are being held there without charges and under inhumane conditions.
It is true that most of the remaining detainees have been held at Guantanamo since shortly after 9/11. We are at war with Islamic terrorists, a war they started when they flew those airliners into New York’s World Trade Center and into the Pentagon. It is a dirty war fought without any international rules of engagement. That is why I believe that we are justified in imprisoning suspected terrorists without any formal charges. A few of the detainees may even be innocent.
By holding the terrorists outside our country, they are not subject to the Constitutional rights and protections granted to people within the United States.
If Obama thinks those Islamic terrorists are being held under in humane conditions, then he does not know the meaning of ‘inhumane.’ The prisoners at Guantanamo are well-fed, clothed and sheltered. They receive good medical care.
I just got through watching a rerun of the TV movie ‘Andersonville.’ Compared to the hellhole that was Andersonville, Guantanamo is a Club Med resort.
The Confederates held 45,000 Union soldiers at the prisoner-of-war camp in Andersonville, Georgia. The only shelter they had were some makeshift tents. The only clothing they had were the clothes they were wearing when captured. They were not given enough to eat. The camp had an inadequate water supply. There was no sanitation. The prisoners were given no medical care. 13,000 prisoners died of scurvy, diarrhea, and dysentery.
Mr. President, Andersonville was inhumane, not Guantanamo!
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