gitmo - whose rights are barry putting first?

February 2, 2009

barry's continually changing, still concerned about the polls, idealistic words on closing Guantanamo Bay as said in an interview with NBC.

Source: Reuters

BARRY: Can we guarantee that they're not going to try to participate in another attack?

No.

But what I can guarantee is that if we don't uphold our Constitution and our values, that over time that will make us less safe. And that will be a recruitment tool for organizations like al-Qaeda.

Define "over time" and then define how many Americans one freed savage can kill and how many more fellow savages they can infect, who will then go on to kill....and kill...and kill...

If they don't get out - they can't kill.

If they don't get out - they can't recruit.

If they weren't savages going in - they most likely are now.

And if there are some who still are not - they will become so or face beheading by their compatriots.

Is it going to be easy? No, because we've got a couple hundred of hard-core militants that, unfortunately, because of ... some problems that we had previously in gathering evidence, we may not be able to try in ordinary courts but we don't want to release.

You want to afford savages rights and due process? Was Senator John McCain afforded the same rights you plan on affording these savages?

You want to bring them to American soil? Then spend some of that bailout money on Alcatraz and bypass soil altogether. That would actually create some of those job you keep speeching about.

I have to make the very best judgments I can make in terms of what's going to keep the American people safe and ... what's going to uphold our Constitution and our traditions of due process.

What type of judgment have you shown in picking cabinet members? "I screwed up" takes on a different meaning when talking about terrorists and innocent law abiding, tax-paying American citizens - the kind you seem, in your infinite wisdom, to be having difficulty finding.

And what I'm convinced of is -- we can balance those interests in a way that makes all of us proud but also assures that we're not attacked.

Bringing savages to the mainland would allow their fellow savages tangible access to them and would put every single man woman and child in the vicinity of that prison at risk -- including natural born citizens whose sympathies might lie elsewhere or who might just be desperate enough for drugs, food, shelter, or medicine for their children that they would do something they would not have otherwise done if the situation hadn't presented itself.

You, Mr President, would be willingly importing terrorism into the United States of America.