{"id":12960,"date":"2014-06-08T01:42:08","date_gmt":"2014-06-08T08:42:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/?p=12960"},"modified":"2014-06-08T01:42:08","modified_gmt":"2014-06-08T08:42:08","slug":"maher-spot-on-about-gop-gulag","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/2014\/06\/08\/maher-spot-on-about-gop-gulag\/","title":{"rendered":"Maher Spot-on About GOP Gulag"},"content":{"rendered":"

The more I learn about Bergdahlghazi, the more I become convinced that Republicans have been breathing their own self-produced methane for too long.  Bill Maher had a fascinating panel discussion about the five Taliban prisoners released from the GOP Gulag at Gitmo in the exchange.  His final conclusion is so obvious that most journalists could have failed to discuss it only by intent to withhold the most pertinent fact.<\/font><\/p>\n

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\"Maher\"It’s been a very long week watching the right-wing freakout over the the prisoner swap for Sgt. Bowe Bergdahl, with everyone from John Bolton<\/a>, to Ted Cruz<\/a>, to the hairpiece Donald Trump<\/a>, to you name it<\/a> sticking their two cents in on whether we should have negotiated to get Bergdahl released and on whether the trade for the prisoners at Gitmo was worth it.<\/p>\n

During a panel discussion on this Friday’s Real Time with Bill Maher on the topic, Maher finally said out loud what’s been missing from the discussions we’ve been hearing in our corporate media, and that’s why we could not have just tried these "terrorists" being held at Guantanamo Bay in a court of law — we tortured them.<\/p>\n

You can debate all you want to, as the group did here, over whether these are bad people or not, and whether they might pose a threat to the United States at some time in the future or not, and who we should and should not be classifying as terrorists.<\/p>\n

None of that matters much if, as Maher pointed out at the end of the clip above, we can’t try them because the Bush administration decided it was a good idea to torture them<\/a>, and we can’t hold them any more because we can’t call them enemy combatants if we’re going to draw down and get out of Afghanistan. Maybe one of these days the so-called "journalists" we’ve got out there who are following Fox’s lead and drumming up their latest fake controversy could bother to point that out to their viewers as well\u2026<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

Inserted from <Crooks and Liars<\/a>><\/p>\n