Comments on: Dr. Keith: The Truth of the Guantanamo Tape

By: Mike

Mike — Thu, 17 Jul 2008 15:03:53 +0000

Welcome Back Khadr…

I live in Toronto, not far from their homebase and Omar khadr and his entire family are self-admitted jihadists and full supporters of the Taliban, if not outright members. His father was killed while fighting American and Pakistani forces in Afghanistan, his older brother fought alongside the father and became a paraplegic doing same.

The mother is the worst of the bunch. In essence The entire Khadr family are enemies of the state and I find it shocking that they aren’t all (or at least the adults) in prison for treason, enablers of terrorism, whatever. So to believe Omar Khadr is an innocent teen who felt some lone passion for fighting the “infidel” in a distant land would be a wholly inaccurate point of view. He was raised a terrorist…

BUT…

He was a kid. The line has to be drawn somehwere, and for most of the world, you’re not fully responsible for your actions until you reach the age of adulthood, 18. Often it’s very difficult to take the moral high ground and to be better than your enemy; it’s much easier to exact biblical revenge on your enemies, without regard to the rule of law. When you live in a country that ignores or rewrites the rule of law, you become part of something less than civilized, and maybe more “fanatical” if I could use that word.

By: Mujahid

Mujahid — Thu, 17 Jul 2008 05:10:41 +0000

You are absolutely right!! WE should make Americans more painful in order to make them understand the pain of other

By: vallan

vallan — Wed, 16 Jul 2008 20:15:17 +0000

5/16/2008 Appellate Exhibits 103 thru 112 New! Scroll to middle of page and you will find in detail just how bad the torture is. I really don’t see the differance between Abu Graib or Guantanamo at this point. As a matter of fact the same prison guards that were prosecuted in the Abu scandal were originally transfered from Bahran where Omar got his first taste of torture. Punishment yes…..torture no !! Otherwise we’re no better than the enemy.

By: bristol mercheson

bristol mercheson — Wed, 16 Jul 2008 18:39:02 +0000

A Buckeye View –

I’m sorry Dr. I have a very big heart and am a father, but I also have a brain. That brain tells me that any empathy or sympathy for people like Khadr is misplaced and frought with great peril.

What you are suggesting reminds me once again of the weakness of the West and the perception of that weakness by the likes of this young combatant. Such weakness only breeds contempt by those who oppose our value system and way of life.

Indeed, for decades our weakness over such sob stories have left us vulnerable to being used, abused, manipulated or killed. I’m not about to perpetuate these outcomes by extending my hand to someone who gladly would rip it off and destroy the body it was attached to if they had the opportunity.

By: Nancy

Nancy — Wed, 16 Jul 2008 18:32:09 +0000

Thank you for a wise & truthful statement. And we should never forget who started this war in the first place.

By: Muddah

Muddah — Wed, 16 Jul 2008 18:30:02 +0000

You are saying that you don’t see on video that Omar Khadr wasn being tortured. Then where is the video that proves that he was the man (15 year old boy, child) who threw the grenade at US soldiers? Where is that video? And besides physical torture there is a psychological torture that is even worth, and it is very difficult to prove it in many cases.

By: A shameful Canadian

A shameful Canadian — Wed, 16 Jul 2008 18:23:28 +0000

It is against International Law to hold a Child combatant (under 18 years)

But, what does the United States care about LAW!

You all commit and justify war crime, after war crime, and then wonder WHY people hate you!

Wow…

By: Joseph

Joseph — Wed, 16 Jul 2008 17:31:44 +0000

Bet the brat was having a ball when he killed the soldier, probably laughing all the while. He is lucky he wasn’t killed after he killed the soldier. I agree with pompey. Anyone who is a terrorist will ALWAYS be one. Let him loose after capture and he will kill you the first chance he gets. When will all the whiney Americans get a grip on reality! We are in a fight for our very existence, people, WAKE UP!

By: Bob

Bob — Wed, 16 Jul 2008 17:25:16 +0000

Rex, your comment is naive, absurd, and insulting. The thug threw a grenade and tried to run for cover - hence the entry point of the bullets. While Canadians may have interrogated him it was AMERICAN doctors that saved his life. Americans have clothed, fed, sheltered, and allowed him to service the needs of his religion. Is he incarcerated? Yes, that is what happens to murderers. Was he tortured? While people will continue to debate this, no physical evidence yet supports the claim. We only have his whining, and the support of America hating liberals like you to tell us so. Guess what? This is a war, NOT a police action. The REAL Nazis we captured during wartime were not allowed trials under the US constitution. Even the trials at Nuremburg did not commence until the majority of fighting subsided. PoW’s are held for the duration - period. Otherwise they turn right around and kill again - exactly as other released detainees have already done.
Easy for fools like you to say “end the war” or “release the poor tortured detainees”, without bothering to consider that the murderous thugs who started this whole thing have absolutely no desire to do so. Their goal is a global caliphate, jihad, death to the infidel. That means YOU, and the only ones protecting you are the people you disparage as “Nazis”. I hope you and the fool Obama are ready to live under sharia.

By: M. Doyle

M. Doyle — Wed, 16 Jul 2008 17:07:37 +0000

Was this interview unlike other interviews recorded of juveniles in detention? That a teenager would cry or be upset about being detained for any reason - anywhere - is not news. I’m sure that thousands of hours of distraught juveniles in detention in the US - or all over the world - could be aired. The tape provides no insight nor comfort to those who would portray the detention facility at Guantanamo as somehow more oppressive than those in detention in US or European jails.