Many people perceived that Cheny won the Gitmo debate with Obama hands down. However, he might have fudged the numbers a bit to it. Here is a provocative post by PM demonstrating that while Cheney was right to have concerns he clearly provided “political” numbers for the general public.
PM states
Take note, I’m not at all against going after potential terrorists. I’m just against using numbers so carelessly that they lose their meaning. The “hundred thousand lives saved” is, as Kevin Godlington stated on the show, lunacy.
and . . .
Near as I can make it, the only way the Bush administration could have saved “possibly hundreds of thousands” of lives is if they stopped a nuclear attack in a major city. And I’m going to go ahead and say that the burden of proof on them is pretty heavy for something like that.
Read the whole thing here.
