Captives of War Propaganda April 9, 2010

by Will

Will Grigg?s Liberty Minute

April 9, 2010

Lawrence Wilkerson, who was a top aide to former Secretary of State Colin Powell, has testified under oath that the Bush administration knew that most of those held at Guantanamo Bay were innocent men and children. Yes, children: The detainees included boys as young as 12.

Most of those sent to Gitmo were scooped up by Afghan and Pakistani bounty-hunters. Yet they were described as the ?worst of the worst,? detained indefinitely, and often tortured -- for purely political reasons. Releasing the innocent would have undermined the Bush administration?s credibility in carrying out the needless war in Iraq.

When the captors of Idaho native Bowe Bergdahl Idaho native Bowe Bergdahl, the U.S. soldier who has been held by the Taliban for nearly a year, released a video in which he pleads for the war to end, a NATO spokesman denounced it as a ?deplorable? act of propaganda. Yet it was in the service of war propaganda that the Bush administration imprisoned and abused people it knew to be innocent.

Let us take back the liberty wherewith Christ has made us free ? and may God grant us peace.

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