The shrill voices of the authoritarian right will echo for a few weeks on this one. Osama bin Laden's driver was sentenced to 66 months, of which he has already served 61 months.Is this the proper sentence? That's what a military tribunal and judge have determined. The prosecutors had asked for 30 years and that request was summarily rebuffed and changed to a shade over time served.
As the Rude Pundit put it:
"...when the judge in the trial, Captain Keith Allred, told Hamdan, "I hope the day comes when you return to your wife and your daughters and your country," and joined him in speaking, "God willing" in Arabic, it was a direct "fuck you" to the civilian leadership at the Pentagon and the Bush administration as a whole. It was a way of acting as an example and asserting that, even against the inhumane, one can still behave humanely."
He speaks the truth rudely.
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