There Is No Clever Title For This

An aside, I did a post asking what to read other than The New York Times, nationally, for news. Hedy said to try The Washington Post. Not quite right-wing; but, All The President’s Men made an impression on me back when.

So I just did. Damn you Hedy; and, that’s only the first bad word.

Fill in forty or fifty expletives of your own choice for what I might otherwise have to type.

Here’s the headline:

"82 Inmates Cleared But Still Held At Guantanamo"

We, you, me, our piece-of-shit government, can’t get rid of them because no one will take them. The “worst of the worst” include about twenty percent of the approximately 385 detainees there, who are, by our piece-of-shit government’s lights, now magically, after five years, innocent. Read that word again. INNOCENT.

I really want to bang this out, to get it out of me. I’ll go slower and try to cut down on the bad words.

“Since February, the Pentagon has notified about 85 inmates or their attorneys that they are eligible to leave after being cleared by military review panels. But only a handful have gone home, including a Moroccan and an Afghan who were released Tuesday. Eighty-two remain at Guantanamo and face indefinite waits as U.S. officials struggle to figure out when and where to deport them, and under what conditions”

“Of the roughly 385 still incarcerated, U.S. officials said they intend to eventually put 60 to 80 on trial and free the rest. But the judicial process has likewise moved at a glacial pace, largely because of constitutional legal challenges.” How’s that for another nice percentage. They started out with 680 people there. They want to give all but ten to twelve percent of them a cardboard suitcase, a shiny suit and shoes and a sawbuck and put ‘em out on the sidewalk. Only the bus that goes back home won’t pick them up.

Oh, those nasty constitutional legal challenges. I felt another bad word coming on. I’m better now. Now I know why the Justice Department has taken the approach it has and that I have railed against in a few posts. They just want to get rid of the opposition so that they can focus on getting those countries that we lifted these people from to take them back. Well no, that doesn’t make much sense. Then what the hell does? Sorry.

"’In general, most countries simply do not want to help,’ said John B. Bellinger III, legal adviser to Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice. ‘Countries believe this is not their problem. They think they didn't contribute to Guantanamo, and therefore they don't have to be part of the solution.’" Poor John III and Condi, they have the Men Who Came to Dinner and their relatives won’t take them back after dessert. I know there are a lot of dumb references here; but, it’s better than swearing.

I’m probably going to swear big time after this copy and paste:

"’It often takes us months and months, or even years, to negotiate the human rights assurances that we are comfortable with before we will transfer someone to another country,’" said Bellinger, the State Department's legal adviser.” HUMAN RIGHTS ASSURANCES? If this were an Email, I’d be breaching Netiquette with all these capital letters. No cursing. This man works for the same government that worked a deal with the Australian guy last month to let him go if he promised he wasn't tortured, and wouldn't sue the U.S. based on being tortured, which of course he wasn't. The same Administration that went round and round with Congress about the subtle differences between torture and coercion, not that either was ever employed.

There’s more garbage spewed by our government in the article, but enough is enough.

Here’s my solution:

We have something like 300 now “OK's of the maybe bads” stewing on the tip of Cuba. If you count up the military’s general officers, Cabinet Officers, and assistants, GWB, Dead-eye Dick, you gotta total that number. Most of them have a valet, a driver, a nanny, a cook, you know those menial positions that everyone who runs roughshod on whims needs to make life comfortable. Bring up the newly OK guys, with their guards (don't want these OK guys to get any ideas) spread them out among our elite. Most of the menials there now are probably wetbacks anyway. Send them south. Let Fidel and Raul worry about them. Mr. Bellinger and Condi can be counted on not to abuse the new OK guys' human rights, can’t they? Maybe our government elite types can teach these guys how people in the land of the free and home of the brave.............whatever. I suppose we’ll need a few extra guards for the Cheney residence. Not for the staff, for Dead-eye.

I’m going off to think of more bad words. Fuckers.