[Enchante]

It has been an enormously successful international progaganda campaign by the left to demonize Gitmo and the USA over the detentions of TERRORISTS who have to be kept somewhere if we’re not allowed to execute the scumbags. Of course, our policy from the start should have been executions of illegal combatants aka terrorists.

What Adm. Mullen and Secy. Gates (who has also made a similar statement) fail to understand is that closing Gitmo will not be the end but merely one step along the way in the propaganda campaigns against America. Unless you are planning to release these 350 or so terrorists (horrible idea), they have to be kept somewhere (since the liberals and RINOs will not allow them to be executed), so it will merely open whole new cans of worms, er, vermin, wherever they are moved next. If you distribute them in domestic military or civilian prisons you just introduce large new avenues for leftist propaganda and agitation. Every site that holds any of these vermin will become subject to the renewed propaganda wars against us. Allow them onto domestic US soil and watch the lawyerly hordes of leftist sycophants go wild trying to “represent” them and agitate on their behalf.

I said at the time, we never should have brought them to Gitmo, I predicted all of this only I thought the agitation and propaganda would be even worse than it has been. We should have kept them in the region, maybe building a prison in some remote part of Afghanistan for a fraction of what Gitmo cost anyway..... or we should have built a prison someplace really remote like Diego Garcia (if we could buy it from the Brits first, not have a Labor Govt. control our policies), or maybe converted a large transport ship into a prison ship and kept it stationed off Diego Garcia or some other obscure place inacessible to leftist lawyers. There still would have been plenty of leftist propaganda, but it would not have attracted nearly the same attention as having the terrorists at a US base in the Carribean.

A good number of terrorists released from Gitmo have returned to terrorism, so we have enabled the deaths of many more civilians and US troops by succumbing to the pressures of leftist morons. How many more have to die unnecessarily to please the politically correct legions of the left?

[Enchante]

oops, that’s 277 terrorist prisoners there now, down from over 350 a year ago and more than 600 at the peak

277 executions would be just fine, but of course the scurrilous left will not allow terrorists to be executed — such vermin must be fed well and coddled in comfort to the end of their days unless released by the pressures of MSM and legal jihad idiots.

[Ulysse]

That “successful” propaganda campaign has only been so with those who were already convinced(islamic crowds,world wide leftists whose last fight is the antiamerican fight since USSR collapsed)...Don’t be mistaken by the MSM bias

[kabar]

"Mullen, whose previous visit was in December 2005 as head of the U.S. Navy, noted that President Bush and Defense Secretary Robert Gates also have spoken publicly in favor of closing the prison. But Mullen said he is unaware of any active discussion in the administration about how to do it"/p>/i>

If you read the entire article, Mullen notes the complex legal issues involved and doesn't know how to solve them.

[matthew fuller]

"maybe converted a large transport ship into a prison ship and kept it stationed off Diego Garcia or some other obscure place inacessible to leftist lawyers. "

This is what should be done now. Close Gitmo Prison, dock a troop carrier and load up the prisoners and depart for parts unknown and UNDISCLOSED. No more problem.

[HardStarboard]

>>>If you distribute them in domestic military or civilian prisons you just introduce large new avenues for leftist propaganda and agitation.<<<

Great point. So we bring the equivalent of 350 cop-killer Abu Mumia's to our prison system. It could bring the criminal-justice system to its knees!