Comments on: Guantanamo Interrogation Tape Released

Canadian Detainee, Arrested At Age 15, Weeps, Shows Wounds In Clips Released By Lawyers

[witchsince91]

I HOPE UFO''S COME DOWN AND CREATE WORLD PEACE.iF ALIENS FROM ANOTHER WORLD CAN MAKE IT TO EARTH, THEY MUST BE SMART. MAYBE THEY CAN HELP US LVE TOGETHER PEACFULLY.

[witchsince91]

I THINK THEY SHOULD HAVE FORCE FED HIM A PORK SANDWHICH W/ YUMMY JEWISH DELI-STYLE RELISH.

[erasmus81]

"Where''''s erasmus?
She''''s always bragging about how wonderful Canada is and how evil the US is." Posted by HawkSprings at 12:44 PM : Jul 15, 2008

Hahaha, are you missing me, HawkSprings?

[whiskyrocker]

This is a case of a young boy forced into battle. Sad

[middleman8]

What the hell were these murdering u-als doing in afghanistan? This boy was fighting for his people. Typical u-all justice, keep a child imprisoned with no rights and let people like bush and cheney destroy the world.

[scoleridge-2009]

I think "ourtomorrows" has lost his humanity. Americans do not torture. We answer to a higher morality. The Communists tortured our soldiers and received many false information and confessions; now, we are employing the same technique on alleged terrorists and receiving the same results. "ourtomorrows" is now justifying torture using the same rationale as the Gestapos. As Americans, we should do better.

[ourtomorrows]

Can anyone even define ''''''''''''''''neocon'''''''''''''''' without using wikipedia?? Posted by old_ez

Those who believe in American hegemony, unraveling the Constitution, and believe that they are above accountability and the law.

Posted by formrusmcsgt at 06:50 PM

Hmm, I thought that must mean that activist judges like Bader Ginsburg, Senators like Ted Kennedy and organizations like PETA are all neo-con. Fascinating, I appreciate the clarification.

[ourtomorrows]

This child has not had his day in any court. We don''''t know if he did anything. He''''s a child. Shame on anyone who thinks that kidnapping him from his country and holding him without trial or medical attention for six years is in any way justifiable. This is a shameful time in the history of the United States. And anyone who thinks the US is morally superior to the likes of Hizbollah or Hamas are seriously delusional.
Posted by cdfoxtrot1

To compare the United States to Hezbollah or Hammas is just absurd. Do you have any remote idea of how these groups act, how they treat their own people when in power? Kidnapping him, I believe the American troops saved his life. If you read up on this, there are witnesses who saw him throw a grenade that killed an American soldier. No medical attention, he hardly looks at death''s door to me. I try to be respectful when I post on these boards but when I read a post like this from someone like you cdfoxtrot it makes me physically ill. You and your kind are as dangerous if not more so than the terrorists we are fighting. You have no idea what we are fighting and your ignorance is like a gun pointed at the rest of us. I hope you are not an American citizen, if you are, it makes what you write all the more sickening.

[ourtomorrows]

The Bush adminstration is evil and had made the US look evil. I hope the rest of the world will bear with us and know that the American people are not evil and that our history will judge this administration harshly.

Posted by kansas1946

You have that a bit backward Kansas, the Bush Administration is fighting evil while the rest of the world looks on and closes its eyes. I suppose you have deep sympathy for this young man. One ponders why a Canadian teenager is in Afghanistan during a war? Certainly not to see the sites. This young man seemingly had no problem killing Americans and now we are supposed to by sympathetic because he was caught doing it? Was he ordered to Afghanistan by his government as American and allied troops have been? No. Did he choose to go to Afghanistan and take up arms, to kill, in support of a regime, the Taliban, that murdered thousands of its own people and treated women as if they were little more than breeing implements, why yes it appears he did. Would American, Canadian or British troops be treated as well as those in US custody by the Taliban or the militias in Iraq, I think we all know the answer to that. I wonder if he cried when he threw the grenade, somehow I don''t think so.

[formrusmcsgt]

Can anyone even define ''''''''neocon'''''''' without using wikipedia?? Posted by old_ez

Those who believe in American hegemony, unraveling the Constitution, and believe that they are above accountability and the law.

That should just about do it for you, eh?

[sociald63]

when i as 15, playboy & sports kept me entertained and not throwing bombs

[kansas1946]

Martin reports that Khadr was arrested in Afghanistan in 2002 and accused by the U.S. military of throwing a grenade that killed an American soldier during a firefight in July of that year.

He was just 15 when he was found in the rubble of a bombed-out compound - badly wounded and near death.
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The Bush adminstration is evil and had made the US look evil. I hope the rest of the world will bear with us and know that the American people are not evil and that our history will judge this administration harshly.

[whiskyrocker]

They start them killing at a young age. He was just unfortunate to have survived the bombing. He*l of a way to get your life started.

[cdfoxtrot1]

"The soldiers in the field did the honorable thing by saving him and taking him prisoner. Most soldiers will act honorably. But once the politicians get a hold of them (with you neocons urging them on), then the dishonor starts. So, let''''''''s recap. Soldiers, putting their lives on the line, acted honorably while politicians and keyboard warriors opted for torture and dishonor. See a pattern here?"
Posted by Rafterman1 at 03:39 PM : Jul 15, 2008

This child has not had his day in any court. We don''t know if he did anything. He''s a child. Shame on anyone who thinks that kidnapping him from his country and holding him without trial or medical attention for six years is in any way justifiable. This is a shameful time in the history of the United States. And anyone who thinks the US is morally superior to the likes of Hizbollah or Hamas are seriously delusional.

[old_ez]

Can anyone even define ''neocon'' without using wikipedia??

[mbcsmith]

perhaps if we had no nations and no borders to begin with, this kind of thing would be moot. Has everyone lost sight of the notion that we are all human?


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Posted by xxunknown at 04:03 PM : Jul 15, 2008


John Lennon''s dead! Get over it! You apparently need a history lesson. 9/11/01 3000 die in New York.

[quietamercan]

"The soldiers in the field did the honorable thing by saving him and taking him prisoner. Most soldiers will act honorably. But once the politicians get a hold of them (with you neocons urging them on), then the dishonor starts. So, let''''s recap. Soldiers, putting their lives on the line, acted honorably while politicians and keyboard warriors opted for torture and dishonor. See a pattern here?"
Posted by Rafterman1 at 03:39 PM : Jul 15, 2008
well said Rafterman

[mbcsmith]

I have no sympathy for this boy who killed one of my countryman. My concern is the stain on America''''s honor created by lowering ourselves to the level of using torture on prisoners. This is about us, not him.


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Posted by QuietAmercan at 04:20 PM : Jul 15, 2008


Nowhere in the article did anyone claim to have tortured this little bin laden. But, not a bad idea

[quietamercan]

We set ourselves above our enemies in WWII by treating our prisoners humanely while they abused their prisoners. History has judged us well for doing so.
I have no sympathy for this boy who killed one of my countryman. My concern is the stain on America''s honor created by lowering ourselves to the level of using torture on prisoners. This is about us, not him.

[quietamercan]

Lets put a second face on this situation. There were no American deaths listed for July 2002 in Afghanistan but this soldier died in August 2002 of wounds suffered on July 27 2002. He is the only American death listed for August of 2002 in Afghanistan. Look up Sgt. 1st Class Christopher James Speer. I am guessing that he is the soldier this kid killed.