Last Friday, hot on the heels of the Supreme Court’s 5-4 ruling that Guantanamo Bay detainees have the right to challenge their imprisonment in the US Court System, Sen. John McCain called it “one of the worst decisions in the history of this country.”
Really, John? Was that hyperbole, like when your mom orders the Monte Cristo and calls the lunch “the worst I have ever had” because the cole slaw had too much mayo?
Or the type of “worst decision” that one would apply when discussing the needless squandering of international political capital in the Arab world in the face of an extensive McClatchy Newspapers investigation which shows the Gitmo boogeymen were (and are) not, as you and your misinformed brethren insist, “the worst of the worst”?
If the former detainees whom McClatchy interviewed are any indication — and several former high-ranking U.S. administration and defense officials said in interviews that they are — most of the prisoners at Guantanamo weren’t terrorist masterminds but men who were of no intelligence value in the war on terrorism.
In addition to claiming that legislation he helped passed all but assured the civil treatment of detainees at Gitmo — or en route there — McCain also claimed that of the people let go, several were apprehended attacking US forces in Iraq, proving their nature as dangerous individuals.