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<p>Here&#8217;s a particularly <a href="http://michellemalkin.com/2007/06/20/gitmo-poetry-contest/">knee-jerk sentiment</a>, even from Michelle Malkin. She&#8217;s responding to the notion of a poetry anthology by Gitmo inmates. Her response:</p>
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<p>How about a poetry anthology from the families of the victims of many of those Gitmo jihadists?</p>
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<p>The trouble is, dear Michelle, we do not know how many of these detainees had any victims at all; many have been declared innocent of anything by even the Bush administration, and set free; less than 20 percent were originally detained by U.S. forces; the evidence convicting scores of others is either extremely weak, non-existent, or dependent on the testimony of the tortured. Yes, some are the worst of the worst. But, alas, we do not know exactly which. And the sheer <em>assumption</em> of guilt and indefinite detention are alien to every concept underpinning Western notions of justice and legal warfare. Aren&#8217;t those what we&#8217;re fighting for? Then there&#8217;s this piece of bile from Jules Crittenden. He penned <a href="http://www.julescrittenden.com/2007/06/20/guantanamo-poetry-contest/">his own poem</a> for the Gitmo detainees, irrespective of the circumstances of their capture and imprisonment:</p>
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<p>Rose are Red<br />Violets are Blue<br />In the Hated Crusader Gulag at Guantanamo<br />It must suck to be you</p>
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<p>It takes a particularly depraved soul to observe captives sentenced to life imprisonment in solitary confinement without trial or hope &#8211; <em>whatever</em> their past &#8211; and laugh in their faces.</p>
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