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May 19, 2008

ACLU Fantasy Land vs. Reality.....

ACLU....

NEW YORK (AP) - The U.S. military is holding about 500 juveniles suspected of being "unlawful enemy combatants" in detention centers in Iraq.

A total of 2,500 youths under the age of 18 have been detained for periods of up to a year or more since President Bush's anti-terrorism campaign began in 2002. Almost all those who have been detained are in Iraq. About 10 are currently being held in Afghanistan.

The ACLU and other civil liberties groups have denounced the practice as abhorrent. And they say it's in violation of U.S. treaty obligations.

Reality....

BAGHDAD (AFP)An increasing number of Iraqi detainees are refusing to leave detention centres despite being eligible for release because they want to complete studies begun behind bars, a US general said on Sunday.

"In the last three or four months we have begun seeing detainees asking to stay in detention, usually to complete their studies," Major General Douglas Stone told a news conference in Baghdad.

The US military offers a wide range of educational programmes to the 23,000 or so detainees -- adults and juveniles -- being held at its two detention facilities, Camp Cropper near Baghdad's international airport and Camp Bucca near the southern port city of Basra.

Some parents of juvenile detainees, too, have asked that their children remain behind bars so they can continue their schooling, said Stone, the commanding general for US detainee operations in Iraq.

Fifth-column shit bags......

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But the ACLU has no problem defending NAMBLA.

Scum.

A- Why not, they're members ;-)

Great blog! Just stumbled across it via a link from Boortz. I'll be coming back for more! How many posts do you do a day? I counted 13 so far today.

BAH,

WZ is a blogging machine.

How dare comments are taken out of context and snipets used to contort what a person actual said--just like you rabid racists have done with my wife!

B.O.

Great, that is just what we need to be doing. Paying for the people of other coutries to get an education. Meanwhile we cant pay for people to attend or pass public or secondary schools here at home. Can you say money well spent? Lets educate them on how to better destroy our way of life over here in the US. Or lets give them more ways to purchase our economy out from under us, allowing our enemies to determine policy from behind the protection of their corporate lobbyists.

ACLU...Another Crooked Lawyers Union...need I say more?

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