A comedy version of the Third Reich.

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http://www.counterpunch.org/roberts08072008.html

August 7, 2008

The Conviction of Salim Hamdan
Do You Feel Safe Now?
By PAUL CRAIG ROBERTS

Now that military officers selected by the Bush Pentagon have reached a split verdict convicting Salim Hamdan, a onetime driver for Osama bin Laden, of supporting terrorism, but innocent of terrorist conspiracy, do you feel safe?

Or are we superpower Americans still at risk until we capture bin Laden’s dentist, barber, and the person who installed the carpet in his living room?

The Bush Regime with its comic huffings and puffings is unaware that it has made itself the laughing stock of the world, a comedy version of the Third Reich.

Hamdan was not defended by the slick lawyers that got O.J. Simpson off, and he most certainly did not have a jury of his peers. Hamdan was defended by a Pentagon appointed US Navy officer, and his jurors were all Pentagon appointed US military officers with an eye on their careers. Even in this Kangaroo Court, Hamdan was cleared of the main charge.

The US Navy officer who was Hamdan’s appointed attorney is certainly no terrorist sympathizer. Yet even this United States officer said that the rules Bush designed for the military tribunals were designed to achieve convictions. He also said that the judge allowed evidence that would not have been admitted by any civilian or military US court. He said that the interrogations of Hamdan, which comprised the basis of the Bush Regime’s case, were tainted by coercive tactics, including sleep deprivation and solitary confinement.

Does this make you a proud American?



Do you think you are made more safe when you stand there while “your” government implements its own version of Joseph Stalin’s show trials?

[napoleon_in_rags]

1. There is definitely a humorous aspect to all of it.

Kinda fun to hear it acknowledged.

[TankLV]

2. Not so very funny for the innocent caught up in this repuke WAR CRIME...

is it...