Shed Some Light
The The Tennessean Online, has an article which appeared on Sunday, 06/19/05, entitled, Up close, these are the nastiest of prisoners. This is a story about a Tennessee Army National Guardsman named John Krenson who returned after serving in Afghanistan. As a Major and Intelligence Specialist, he often came into contact with the kind of people being held prisoner at Gittmo. The following is in his own words:
“I worked with people who had worked at Gitmo earlier, I worked with people who worked at the primary detention facility in AFG, and I visited that facility many times. I saw detainees (many times on their prayer rugs, other times reading, other times talking when they were not allowed to). I saw the interrogation rooms. I worked with the soldiers and the leaders who ran this place.
I know those operations fairly well, and I got to know the people who ran those operations — both active duty and reservists. They are normal Americans. They are good decent people who believed in what they were doing. Americans — including Sen. Durbin — can be and should be proud of them.
Be assured the worst of the worst detainees are the ones at Gitmo. It took a lot of effort to get a detainee shipped over … . They are no victims. … Their victims are most often Afghan villagers who have risked their lives simply to vote or are construction and aid workers from around the world who are assisting Afghanistan to modernize and develop. The detainees at Gitmo are the ringleaders and verified trigger-pullers in these incidents.
This is serious business with tens and hundreds of thousands of lives at stake. People have already lost lives because we’ve released Gitmo detainees. I read those reports, when they were captured — a second time. I can’t print the words we used in AFG when we found out a soldier died at the hands of a terrorist released from Gitmo. Gitmo didn’t make them want to kill again. Their release allowed them to kill again.”
The Tennessean further states:
“In the war on terror, information saves more lives than tanks. Krenson said he just helped brief 100 Tennessee Guardsmen who will be advisors and trainers to the Afghan National Army throughout Afghanistan and be a big part of election security for upcoming parliamentary elections.
‘I saw their bus pull out when they left their families behind, and it took me back to that day when I boarded a bus to leave my family. This time, I knew where those guys were going and what they would be doing. I was proud of them. They are us. These men on that bus were local business owners, school teachers, neighbors, you name it.’”
Tom Bevans asks the question in his comment below, “Why didn’t this column get more coverage”?
What with Senator Durbin’s outrageous remarks on the Senate floor last week, the MSM has spent all of it’s time trying to cover Durbin’s “tracks”, they didn’t want a story like this one to even see the light of day. This is the kind of information the American people need. It is the kind of information the world needs to see.
The major players of the Democrat Party, continue to throw fuel on the fires of a burning dungheap which only strengthens the perception abroad which portrays the US as criminals. What this proud soldier has stated above should be running in every outlet in the MSM, but they are not interested in the truth. They are only interested in power, which can best be maintained, by supporting their Democrat allies.
So we thought we would shed some light on this article for the benefit of those who haven’t read it.
Our thanks to Tom Bevan at Real Clear Politics, for his commentary today entitled, THE NASTIEST OF PRISONERS:. where he commented and linked to the above story. His take on this appears at the bottom of his article.
