Posted on 07/14/2007 9:33:10 PM PDT by gpapa
Reports suggest that President Bush's top advisers are again wrestling with whether to close the detention facility in Guantanamo Bay, Cuba. There is no doubt that holding captured al Qaeda and Taliban fighters at that facility has become a significant diplomatic liability.
But the potential foreign policy benefits of moving war on terror prisoners must be weighed against the very real strategic, tactical and legal costs that this decision would entail. After looking at these, it is difficult to avoid the conclusion that maintaining the Guantanamo Bay facility is not only justifiable but necessary.
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Give ‘em over to the appropriate Islamic brethren to be tortured, so the leftists can whine about that!
Reports from the same NY Times that claimed Bush was going wobbly over Iraq.
In both cases the “reports” where lies.
How many times do Conservative have to be lied to by the Politically Corrupt Media before they stop swallowing the bait?
John McCain stated yesterday that he would definitely close Gitmo if he is elected president. I could only vote for somebody who took that position if they were the last non-democrat standing.
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