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Operation Valentine: A Salute to Gitmo Heroes

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Debra Burlingame has a message for our troops serving at Guantanamo Naval Base:

“Operation Valentine: A Salute to Gitmo Heroes” is a special effort to support our men and women in uniform at Gitmo, the war on terror’s most difficult duty.

There is widespread misunderstanding of the mission and the burden that belongs to the men and women working at Gitmo and its importance to the security of our nation. In addition, because the men and women who are on duty there are under tremendous security risk from terrorist attacks, they receive nothing in the way of cards and gifts, while the interned receive plenty, including words of encouragement and gifts.

If you want to send Valentines to Troops in Gitmo, please mail them to this address as he will distribute your cards:

CAPT Peter Husta, GTMO APO AE 09360

Your can also send ‘care packages.’ Please click on the image above to view a list of requested items.

The following is by former Special Forces officer and Vietnam veteran Gordon Cucullu, author of the just released ‘Inside Gitmo: The True Story Behind the Myths of Guantanamo Bay.’ It is an excerpt from his earlier ‘Gitmo Jive’ commentary.

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Islamic terrorists will win if ‘Rule of law’ replaces the Laws of War

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In the Wall Street Journal today, John Yoo weighs in about President Barack Obama’s orders to close Guantanamo Bay and terminated the CIA’s special authority to interrogate terrorists:

Eliminating the Bush system will mean that we will get no more information from captured al Qaeda terrorists. Every prisoner will have the right to a lawyer (which they will surely demand), the right to remain silent, and the right to a speedy trial.

The first thing any lawyer will do is tell his clients to shut up. The KSMs or Abu Zubaydahs of the future will respond to no verbal questioning or trickery — which is precisely why the Bush administration felt compelled to use more coercive measures in the first place. Our soldiers and agents in the field will have to run more risks as they must secure physical evidence at the point of capture and maintain a chain of custody that will stand up to the standards of a civilian court.

Our Constitution will become a suicide pact if those sworn to protect it let the propaganda of Islamic terrorists and their profiteering lawyers rewrite it.