Report: Bush, Cheney, and Rumsfeld Knowingly Sent Innocents to Gitmo

In these days where we have a president who half the country hates with a passion and half the country blindly follows despite his questionable decisions, it’s nice of The Times in London to remind us of the happy days of a few years ago, back when we had a president who half the country hated with a passion and half the country blindly followed despite his questionable decisions.

That’s right, it’s a brand new W. scandal and, if it turns out to be true, it could be quite a damaging one. Colonel Lawrence Wilkerson, a former top aide to Colin Powell, has claimed that George W. Bush, Dick Cheney and Donald Rumsfeld were all aware that many prisoners in Guantanamo Bay were entirely innocent but left them there anyway. The accusations were made in a document that The Times has obtained.

From The Times:

“Colonel Wilkerson, who was General Powell’s chief of staff when he ran the State Department, was most critical of Mr Cheney and Mr Rumsfeld. He claimed that the former Vice-President and Defence Secretary knew that the majority of the initial 742 detainees sent to Guantánamo in 2002 were innocent but believed that it was ‘politically impossible to release them’.”

The document goes on to state that it was Powell himself who told Wilkerson that President Bush was probably also involved. Rumors have it that Powell backs all the allegations Wilkerson makes in the document. This isn’t the first time that Wilkerson has been critical of the Bush administration as he, like Powell, has come out in critique of the handling of the Iraq War build-up and anti-terrorism efforts. For example, last year, Wilkerson made headlines by claiming that the former Vice President’s actions were really “assisting” al-Qa’ida.

It’ll be interesting to see how much of an uproar this document makes here in America. If it does, chances are it’s because the release of the WikiLeaks video earlier this week brought the Iraq War screaming back into the public consciousness. Besides, Liberals will probably have missed their time being the outraged party for eight years. To be honest, it’s not nearly as fun being the guys on top.