Bush's Gitmo Vindication

Wall St. Journal ^ | May 21st 2009

[Steelfish]

MAY 22, 2009

Bush's Gitmo Vindication

Obama still hasn't said where the worst terrorists will go.

President Obama delivered a major speech yesterday on how he intends to prosecute the war on terror (or whatever it's now called), and in particular his desire to close the detention facilities at Guantanamo Bay.

As rhetoric, his remarks were at pains to declare a bold new moral direction. On substance, however, the speech and other events this week look more like a vindication of the past seven years.

The President's speech came after both houses of Congress had denied his funding requests to shut down Guantanamo and relocate some of the most dangerous prisoners to the U.S.

The 90-6 vote in the Senate was especially notable because all but a half-dozen Democrats opposed their own President, on that high-minded principle known as not-in-my-backyard.

So, to the idea that isolated Alcatraz Island could serve as one possible location, California's Dianne Feinstein says it is a historic landmark and instead suggests a prison in another state.

But the most state-of-the-art "supermax" prison in America is in Colorado, and this week that state's new Democratic Senator, Michael Bennet, vetoed that idea; as it happens, he's running for election in 2010.

[Extremely Extreme Extremist]

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[Kenny Bunk]

I want the Gitmo Guys moved to American prisons. The standard of Black Muslim education in these joints is just shockingly low.

I say we bring in these real Muslims to bring our homeboys up to full Islamic speed. I mean you can easily see how often our homies get caught. How the hell are you supposed to run a for-real jihad with half-trained bean-pie sales dudes?

[rvoitier]

A big problem with bringing muslims onto American soil, even in maximum security prisons, is proselytizing.

2 muslims go in, 600 come out.

[Intolerant in NJ]

Yet for all of his attacks on the Bush Administration, which he accused of making "decisions based upon fear rather than foresight,"...as opposed to the fantasy rather than foresight guiding Mr. Obama......