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Less stupidity and pandering, please

My Senator is an idiot, and Harry Reid is right behind him. In a press conference today, Reid was asked about Senator Inouye's amendment to the supplemental war funding bill which precludes spending any money to close Guantanamo until a place which will take the detainees is found. Read the following exchange:

QUESTION: But Senator, Senator, it's not that you're not being clear when you say you don't want them released. But could you say — would you be all right with them being transferred to an American prison?

REID: Not in the United States.

Now, besides kowtowing to the fearmongering of the Republican party, one of whom suggested the other day that these terrorists would be put into halfway houses in Missouri, where does Reid propose they go? Most other countries in the world are likely to say "You captured 'em, you keep 'em."

Besides, last I looked, this country had over 30 SuperMax prisons, housing such notables as:

• Theodore Kaczynski, the Unabomber
• Dandeny Muñoz Mosquera, former chief assassin for the Medellín Cartel of Colombia
• Terry Nichols, conspirator in the Oklahoma City bombing
• Richard Reid, the "shoe bomber"
• Eric Robert Rudolph, abortion clinic and 1996 Centennial Olympic Park bomber
• Carlos Lehder, Colombian cocaine trafficker, a founding member of the Medellín Cartel
• Zacarias Moussaoui, the alleged "20th hijacker" in the September 11, 2001 attacks.
• Ramzi Yusef, World Trade Center bomber (the 1993 one)

Now really, are the guys at Guantanamo more dangerous than these people, all of whom have been locked up for a while without escaping?

Posted by Linkmeister at May 19, 2009 01:06 PM | TrackBack