Barack Obama Quotes
Guantanamo Bay has likely created more terrorists in the world that it has detained.
The American military and CIA officials made a number of errors in dealing with some of the prisoners. Once military desecrated a Muslim Holy Book with urine, many or the active and violent prisoners were kept in solitary confinement, but secrecy allowed Islamic propagandists to claim that this was done with almost all. Worst of all CIA interrogators were allowed to use ‘enhanced techniques’ (torture). Prisoners were not allowed to have reasonable contact to attorneys and where there were, these were monitored. Most of the prisoners were never charged with anything and yet they never received sentences and no one had any idea whether or not they would ever be charged, tried, sentenced or released. Even where there were some prisoners that the American authorities were willing to release, only a few were as their original counties would not accept them. Islamic extremist terrorist recruiters use Guantanamo to propagandize against America, and many new terrorist recruits were primarily motivated they claimed by the way that fellow Muslims had been treated in Guantanamo. Almost all agreed that Guantanamo was a negative, but it became very difficult to close it down and despite all the errors of operation, very few Americans were willing to return all these men to the battlefield to re-jojn the terrorists and other countries were unwilling to take the responsibility for their custody.
Barack Obama, 44th President of the United States (Democrat, IL), United States Senator (Democrat, IL), Quoted by Lesley Stahl. CBS 60 Minutes, November 17, 2013
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Abu Gharib was a prison in Iraq in which the officers in charge and the command structure failed to prevent a number of American soldiers from abusing and sexually and religiously humiliating Muslim prisoners. Photographs of the abuses traveled around the world and that particular unusual incident unfortunately fit the propaganda preconception of the Americans promoted by Islamic fundamentalist extremists. Tragically, as General McChrystal observed, Abu Gharib served as a recruiting tool for the terrorists.
The Justice Department and the White House were arguing that the Geneva Conventions did not apply to terrorist groups. See {589865}.
The President and Vice President wanted places to interrogate suspected terrorists where they did not have to obey American law, where the press could be kept away from the prisoners, and there would be no way that a prisoner could get the assistance of attorneys and American Judges could not have any jurisdiction. A number of the prisoners had been picked up by mistake, or were accused by people who had scores to settle, and if the CIA had made a mistake, the public could not find out. Further, they wanted to torture certain prisoners and wanted places where they could use their “enhanced interrogation”—see {637536}--without the public finding out.
Barack Hussein Obama II is an American politician and attorney who served as the 44th president of the United States from 2009 to 2017. A member of the Democratic Party, Obama was the first African-American president of the United States. He previously served as a U.S. senator from Illinois from 2005 to 2008 and as an Illinois state senator from 1997 to 2004.
