How is that we hold a guy for 2 years without charges as an enemy combatant, and now, poof, we're letting him go? Sure, he has to renounce his US citizenship (ooh, that'll show him) and face certain "travel restrictions," but come on - like this guy is going to be calling up and letting us know in advance if he gets the urge to book a flight into a skyrscraper.
According to Newsweek:
The agreement to free Yaser Esam Hamdi represents a stunning reversal for the Bush administration, which argued for more than two years that the former Taliban fighter was potentially so dangerous that he had to be detained indefinitely in solitary confinement with no access to counsel and no right to trial.Stunning is putting it lightly. Either Bush & Co. jailed an innocent man for two years without counsel and LIED about him being dangerous (when he wasn't), or they're letting a terrorist go scot free. Which is interesting since at the same time Bush was talking about letting a top female Iraqi prisoner go, Dr. Germ, in response to demands from the beheading terrorists in Iraq. Coincidental that yet another dangerous turr-ist is being let go by the Bushies right when things are getting too hot to handle in Iraq? I smell a deal. And a big fat favor paid to the Saudis.
