Anyone hear Gen. McCaffery say the Gitmo suicides were same as 9-11?

I don't know if this has been posted here, but yesterday the general said the Gitmo suicides were the same thing as suicide bombings.

It'll be interesting to see if that's the right's new talking point (if it isn't already).

Anyone see or hear talk of this?

That rationale makes NO sense. How did he lay out even a semi-logical argument for that point of view?

still an outrageous contrast . . .

MR. RUSSERT: Before I get to Iraq, let me just talk about the three suicides in Guantanamo prison, alleged terrorists. What do you make of that, and how will that play around the world?

GEN. McCAFFREY: Well, Tim, I, I’ve looked at our detention facilities in both Afghanistan and Iraq. I think the problems of the first year—we had some real serious difficulties complying with, I think, our own national and international law—are gone. Firm, humane, professional way of handling it.

Guantanamo’s a special case. It’s become a huge political problem for us, in the Gulf region in particular. I don’t know how we get out of this. Some of these people are extremely dangerous. This was an act of political warfare by the three people that committed suicide, the same as a suicide bomber in downtown Baghdad. But we got a challenge trying to think our way through how to close down Guantanamo in the next two or three years and get these people into some other judicial system.

"This was an act of political warfare by the three people that committed suicide, the same as a suicide bomber in downtown Baghdad. But we got a challenge trying to think our way through how to close down Guantanamo in the next two or three years and get these people into some other judicial system."

Maybe I'm just being technical. Sorry if I am :)

I was out and heard it in the car. Couldn't figure where he was speaking.

When suicide Muslims kill themselves they try their best to take someone with them. I guess the Republicans think that we are complete fools like they are. Without a suicide note we will never know why they killed themselves. Even if they told their intentions to another prisoner we will never know what they said to them.

...that these suicides weren't an 'act of desperation' but were, in fact, an 'act of war'. What can one say to such idiocy?

homicide suicides.