Brit filmmaker Michael Winterbottom, whose anti-American film "The Road to Guantanamo Bay" is picking up accolades at the Berlin Film Festival,
says the point of the film is to show how bizarre it is that Guantanamo even exists.
"If someone had said five years ago that the American government was going to create a place, in Cuba of all places, because holding those people would be illegal in their country so they couldn't take them to their country... they would hold people for four years without any trial and often even without charge, people would have thought you were crazy."
Well how about this for crazy?
If someone had said five years ago that Islamic terrorists were going to crash hijacked airliners into the World Trade Center and the Pentagon, killing thousands of Americans in hideous fashion... and that the worldwide reaction over the next four years would be indignation and finger pointing over the fact that America doesn't afford terrorists captured in war all the rights and due processes given American citizens, people would have thought you were crazy.
And if you had said that after this attack on America a Brit film maker would actually invite captured terrorists to the Berlin Film Festival, people would have thought you were sick.
Maybe I am sick, or crazy, but I am not surprised at all.
