A Gitmo deal with the devil

NY Post ^ | March 11, 2010 | PETER HOEKSTRA

[Scanian]

Last week, President Obama's advisers told reporters that they'd soon recommend that the president propose a "deal" with Congress on the Guantanamo Bay detainees. Obama would drop his insistence that the detainees be tried in civilian courts and instead let them be tried in military tribunals in exchange for Congress allowing (and funding) the closing of the Gitmo facility and the moving of the detainees to US prisons.

Only in Washington could bureaucrats hatch such a deal to trade one deeply unpopular proposal for another.

Trying Guantanamo detainees in America and moving them to US prisons are indefensible and dangerous proposals and must be rejected. The American people have made it abundantly clear that they do not want these detainees in our country in any way, shape or form. And with our nation facing a growing budget deficit, now is not the time to build new super-secure prisons in the United States for al Qaeda terrorists when taxpayers already paid to build one at Guantanamo.

[pnh102]

So instead of Club Gitmo supposedly being a recruiting tool, it will instead be the name of some federal prison in the USA instead.

And of course with that, the lawyers who will do anything to get these scum out on bail.

Here's a much easier way to close Club Gitmo. Kill the inmates, dump the bodies into the ocean, then lock the place up.

[bitterohiogunclinger]

“Kill the inmates, dump the bodies into the ocean, then lock the place up.

If you’re referring to Washington D.C., I agree.