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Jewish World Review
June 2, 2005
/ 24 Iyar, 5765
Send in the clowns: Lawyers who care go to Gitmo
By
Bob Tyrrell
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Our war against terror is in trouble now.
Lawyers from some of our most prestigious law firms are trundling down to
Guantanamo Bay to represent detainees. If any group in America can bring a
project to foozle it would be a group of American lawyers intent on
humanitarian service. It is only a matter of time before a new Ramsey Clark
Jr. emerges to fill American courts with bogus legal charges to stoke
international anti-Americanism. Then accomplished poseurs such as the
Clintons and Jean-Francois Kerry can chirp about how the whole world is
increasingly hostile to us. They will, of course, urge the Bush
Administration to heed the concerns of "the world community."
Frankly I would like to be on hand when these sleek American
lawyers arrive in Gitmo, particularly if they include members of the fair
sex. The detainees are all very pious Islamicists. Surely these enlightened
lady lawyers will have the decency to wear the requisite abaya, the national
dress of Saudi Arabia that covers Saudi cuties in one heap of cloth from
head to toe. If such garments are not available in New York or Washington,
perhaps purchasing a small tent from L.L Bean will do. Surely our lady
lawyers will not be so disrespectful as to wear perfume or, for that matter,
even deodorant, which among the devout detainees is sure to be considered
sacrilegious. Also I suspect the ladies will know enough to walk several
paces behind their men folk. Islamic sensibilities must be observed and,
incidentally, this custom is one for which I have some sympathy.
I am told that the lawyers might have difficulty gaining the
trust of the aggrieved detainees at Gitmo. They are a touchy bunch. The very
thought of Westerners provokes them to blow up themselves and anyone nearby.
Yet they have these complaints about our soldiers treating them
discourteously and in contravention of Geneva protocols on the humane
treatment of prisoners. Well, send in a few lady lawyers with promises of
legal assistance and the possibility of being sprung from this Gitmo
calaboose and allowed to fly off to their Middle Eastern paradises. Do you
remember the reports in the Weekly Standard of some of the detainees'
response to the presence of female American soldiers at Gitmo? The chaps
exposed their male members and masturbated. In some instances, they would
reach for their toothbrushes and perform unspeakable acts with the brushes
on parts of their anatomy that would amaze our female soldiers. Well, an
American lady lawyer on a humanitarian mission will know the proper
response. She might read the Bill of Rights to her client. She might bill
her office overtime.
Yes, there is farce surrounding the arrival of American lawyers
at Gitmo to assist these savage men whose favorite pastime is murder. The
detainees are not soldiers, conventionally understood. They are among the
most dangerous people on earth. For a certitude, our government is faced
with a very difficult set of problems in handling them, either for
intelligence purposes or to keep them from going back and killing more of
their neighbors and our forces.
The humane treatment of prisoners is a Western idea, and it is
good that we have organizations devoted to monitoring that treatment. Yet
even here there is farce. Imagine Amnesty International recently comparing
our facility at Guantanamo Bay with the Gulag where millions of Russians
perished. Then Amnesty International called for the arrest and trial of Vice
President Dick Cheney, Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld and former CIA
Director George Tenet.
Gen. Richard B. Meyers responded to these imbecilic statements
by saying, "I think I'd ask them [Amnesty International's provocateurs] to
go look up the definition of gulag as commonly understood. We've had 68,000
detainees since this conflict against violent extremism started. We've had
325 investigations into alleged abuse. We've had 100 cases of substantiated
abuse and there are 100 individuals that have had some sort of action taken,
either court-martial or administrative action." Yes, general, and now we
have the lawyers involved. With a little luck they will turn Guantanamo into
Bill Clinton's impeachment revels or the Michael Jackson trial.
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