Huck is the only one (ron paul doesn’t count since he’s just crazy) who is really soft on national security. Mccain is also against gitmo and waterboarding but at least he has other things to make up for it.
Hunter was so strong on national security...I don’t understand this.
Bush was thought to be weak on national security as well when he was first running. As far as gitmo goes it has become more of a political slogan than anything else these days. The courts have ruled that the same rules apply to it as to anywhere else so there isn’t a lot of reason other than pride to keep it open as opposed to relocating detainees to other less public locations.
Huck is the only one (ron paul doesn’t count since he’s just crazy) who is really soft on national security. Mccain is also against gitmo and waterboarding but at least he has other things to make up for it.
I think Huckabee wanting to "shut down gitmo" has been overblown. He doesn't want to let anyone imprisoned there go.
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HUCKABEE: On the Guantanamo issue, I felt we should keep it open until the court case had come down indicating that there was no real substantive difference in whether they were in Guantanamo or Leavenworth. And I think that sort of changes the picture.
The fact is, I don’t care what the rest of the world thinks. I care what America thinks. And it’s become a divisive issue.
I went to Guantanamo, I visited it. Quite frankly, I visited every prison in my state. I know a little bit about the difference between what we operate and what we were operating at Guantanamo.
It wasn’t that it wasn’t too bad. The truth is, it was too darn good.
The conditions down there were amazingly hospitable. I thought a little bit too much for my taste, considering what these people had done.
HUCKABEE: So it’s a matter of believing that we ought to have policy that brings this country together and not tears it apart. I don’t think where we keep these people is as important as it is that we keep them and we don’t let them go.