Alive, Moussaoui serves as a pretext for "hostages" to be taken, with the threat to kill them unless Moussaoui is released. I expect this to happen repeatedly from now on, with most of those taken suffering the ultimate penalty that Moussaoui should have paid.
For this reason only, Moussaoui is right that "we lost."
JMHO, but I think this sentence is perfectly suitable. What could be better than this jealous fool sitting in a prison cell, no chance of escape, forever? He can lie on his bunk, eating his heart out while watching the rest of the world on television living their lives, free. Living in constant, continual terror of his fellow inmates, without the solitude of death row.
While I realize that it offers scant solace to the families of the victims, I hope they gain comfort from the fact that he is eaten up with envy of this country, and now he's her prisoner.
Hence...GWB and Rumsfeld were right to keep all these gooners in Gitmo and elsewhere. In light of the translations of all the captured documents all of these pazy a$$e$ in the media and their buddies are dead wrong. We should throw it in their faces everyday. It is never "too soon".
This muslim hero lives because his jurors pronounced him crazy, the misbegotten spawn of a stereotypically awful family, a failure in life, a failure as a terrorist, and a failure as a martyr.
This is like the El Sayid Nosair jury. In that case the conviction was a weapons charge and not the murder of a NY Rabbi. The weeds of liberalism bear bitter fruit..
The only thing that gives me pleasure is reading about the type of max security place he'll be sent to.
He's goin' to SUPERMAX!
"...Set in the high desert of Colorado, Supermax holds America's most dangerous criminals. They include terrorists, murderers — even members of the Taliban.
They spend up to 23 hours a day in soundproof cells, locked behind solid steel doors. They eat their meals in these 8-by-12-foot cells, where the desk, the stool, even the bed are made of concrete.
The only window — 42 inches high and 4 inches wide — looks out on a small recreation yard that prisoners might never get to use. When inmates are allowed out of their cells, they are strapped into leg irons and other restraints and are strip-searched.
They call this place the Alcatraz of the Rockies..."
"...Everything within the cell is of pre-poured concrete: the sink, toilet, shower, and slab that is the bed..."
"...After several years... may be allowed outside for recreation, but will never again set eyes on the beauty of the mountains that surround us here in Florence...
...Because of the high walls surrounding the small recreation area, "he will only be able to look upward, into the sky..."
"...23-hour lockdown leads some prisoners to develop symptoms of mental illness: depression, increased paranoia, delusions and suicide..."
It's better that the punishment at least have some value to the USA by not generating any sympathy for Moussaoui or condemnation from the rest of the world. Plus there is nothing glorious about life in solitary - no 74 virgins and all that - nothing for any young Muslim kid to fantasize about.
It's possible that the jurors feared for their lives!
A sentence of death would have meant years of legal battles for as much as 20 years, during which time this thing would have become the pretty boy of International Amnesty, Ed Asner and the usual crowd.
A life sentence is bad because this thing will be given hero status, be given interviews, write letters and books, convert inmates to the cause.
Obviously the problem is the legal system which treats criminals as victims.
It's too bad that the USA has lost its ability to deal with criminals the way that it should.
I can't help but wonder how long it will be until a terrorist hostage taking or similar event will be used to try and blackmail the USA into releasing him.