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The debate over the disposition of the terrorist detainees currently housed in Guantanamo Bay's detention centers (Camp Delta, Camp Echo, Camp Iguana & Camp 7) rages on. The anti-war/anti-Bush contingent continues to call for the shuttering of the facilities while those in support of fighting the war against violent Islamist aggression challenge them on their alternative for the securing of the enemy combatants housed at the facility. And as this debate drags on one thing has become painfully obvious:  the efforts of the anti-war/anti-Bush contingent are not only visionless, they are purely political. 

First, we need to be honest about two critical points that have been allowed to morph from political talking points to perceived realities; talking points that have become the anti-war/anti-Bush contingent's mantra: 1) That the mere existence of the facility at Guantanamo Bay has tarnished the reputation of the United States around the world, and 2) That the mere existence of the facility more commonly referred to as "Gitmo" has served to create more jihadis. Both assertions are manufactured, contrived and patently false. 

Gitmo Diminished the Reputation of the United States
The US military personnel assigned to the Guantanamo Bay facility are as professional as they come. There have been no documented cases of torture as it is defined by the United States Supreme Court. (web site)

This includes the use of enhanced interrogation techniques. In fact, the facilities at Guantanamo Bay were described by the deputy head of Brussels' federal police anti-terrorism unit, Alain Grignard, as:

 

"...a model prison, where people are better treated than in Belgian prisons."

The truth of the matter is, as I stated in a previous article, that the criticism of the Guantanamo Bay detention facility originated with the anti-war/anti-Bush contingent right here in the United States. This criticism, advanced by a media filled with bloodlust for President Bush and based on hearsay, rumor and the "testimony" of former detainees -- detainees who practice the fundamentalist Islamic tenet of al taqiyya, was even debunked by one of the Left's most ardent operatives, US Sen. Dick Durbin (D-IL) who said of the facility after his visit in 2006:

 

"...the men and women in uniform who are serving us in Guantanamo have been the best -- steadfast, professional, often heroic, working in a very difficult place -- bleak and barren, hotter than the hinges of hell. They go to work every day to watch these detainees and try to derive information...They're not using torture."

So, if the reputation of the United States suffered at all on the issue of the Guantanamo Bay detention facility, it was because the mainstream media and anti-war/anti-Bush activists purposely shopped the false notion of US military misdeeds at the camps. It is hard for the media and the anti-war/anti-Bush contingent to say they support the troops when one understands this reality. 

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