Karzai demands release of all inmates at Guantanamo as condition for signing security pact

[sabrina 1]

13. Sickening isn't it? To find out that the people you thought actually were opposed to Bush's war

crimes, were only using them for political purposes. This has been a very educational few years for me.

I guess I was naive, I really thought we on the left actually cared about human rights.

But watch how they will do a complete flip flop if Obama agrees with Karzai and succeeds in closing down that stain on this country. Suddenly they will be cheering for human rights once again and slamming anyone who points out the shameful hypocrisy.

If we are to believe this president, he WANTS to do what Karzai is demanding. In some ways Obama's 'supporters' do him more harm than his enemies. IF he meant everything he said but is moving slowly and carefully, these 'supporters' jumping in to support human rights abuses on his behalf, could not be doing him more harm if they tried.

That place needs to be emptied of all detainees and then fumigated to rid it of the blood and stench of brutality emanating from it each day that it exists. And that WILL happen one day, far too late for those whose human rights have been so abused, for those innocents who have died and were brutally tortured there.

We should be ashamed. But that would require a sense of justice which at one time I thought existed at least in half the population. Now, sadly that half appears to put politics above all else.