Bin Laden’s Death and the Vindication of George W. Bush

May 3, 2011 05:00


bin Laden’s death is a direct result of information gained from the interrogation of detainees, reportedly at the famed Guantanamo Bay prison camp…. It would seem that George Bush and the defenders of his detainee policy were right all along.

By Adam Yoshida at American Thinker


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“Whether we bring our enemies to justice or bring justice to our enemies,” declared President George Walker Bush nine days after 9-11, “justice will be done.”  I’ve always thought that that speech, delivered to a Joint Session of Congress on September 20th, was the one of the finest Presidential orations of my lifetime — certainly the best to be delivered in that place since either General MacArthur’s 1951 Farewell speech or FDR’s call for Congress to declare war against Japan.

How did the Intelligence Community find the courier who eventually took them to bin Laden?  They found him through information gained from interrogating terrorist prisoners.

Let’s repeat that point because it needs to be emphasized.  Ultimately, bin Laden was found and killed as a result of information gained from the interrogation of a captured terrorist.  Actually, given all of the ink and pixels that have been spilled over this subject, it bears repeating one more time: bin Laden’s death is a direct result of information gained from the interrogation of detainees, reportedly at the famed Guantanamo Bay prison camp.

Given what we now know, how many people still think that the opponents of Guantanamo Bay — including the current resident of the White House — were right when they screamed about its supposed inhumanity, plotted to close it, and vowed to move terrorist prisoners into civilian courts?  It would seem that George Bush and the defenders of his detainee policy were right all along.

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