Simply put, Barry must choose who he’d rather face in 2012: those who will be disappointed he didn’t close Gitmo, or those who will blame him for the terrorist attack on American soil.

fiscallyconservative on November 25, 2008 at 4:52 PM

Very true!
I must say, if BHO lets them all loose, we’ll be attacked and in 2012 the terrorists will be reaquainted with the phrase “Don’t Mess With The U.S.!”

Condi Rice: They’ve just made the jump into hyperspace.

President Bush: You’re sure the homing beacon is secure aboard their ship? I’m taking an awful risk, Condi. This had better work.

Which is why I think they will end up being pretty similar to the Bush admin on these issues.

Los Angeles had been targeted in a follow-up mission by al-Qaeda after 9/11, and the Bush administration’s interrogations uncovered the plot and the plotters, ending the threat.

these things should be more widely known

jp on November 25, 2008 at 1:48 PM

Agreed. Why on earth Bush didn’t make a prime time address to the nation on this is a source of complete bafflement to me. Then again, this administration has been it’s own worst enemy in the communications department.
Rely on the MSM? How naive. The Bushies really dropped the ball on stuff like this.

Obama and his fellow Democrats fuck this up, and there is another major terrorist attack, they can kiss their asses goodbye in 2012.

GarandFan on November 25, 2008 at 1:38 PM

What makes you think their asses will be safe til 2012? They are going to be history 2 months after the next terrorist attack on a scale of 9-11. The riots afterwards will make Watts look like a playground brawl. After the death of hundreds of thousands of Americans in a chemical, biological, or nuclear attack, there is no way an Obama administration will survive if they are allowed to free the GITMO cretins and give rights to terrorists that prevent stopping a nother 9-11 attack. Martial law won’t stop it. Lawsuits won’t stop it. And nothing he can do except lead by the example given by Bush will suffice BEFORE an attack occurs, that might prevent his impeachment, his trial, and likely, his imprisonment for incompetence or neglect in the deaths of hundreds of thousands or even millions of Americans.

With those stakes, do you really think a “we’ll git ‘em” speech, after he freed them, will appease the mob?

You don’t know frontier justice like I do then.

Subsunk

More importantly, Obama hasn’t offered much of a vision as to how he’ll handle future high-value detainees

Of course he has. Obama has said that he’ll close Gitmo, and he’s never said that he’ll do anything else regarding the matter.

Which part of that is too complicated for you to understand?

If it makes you happy to imagine that there’s some sort of magical secret plan in the works, more power to you. But don’t blame Barak Obama for the fact that you’re a bit fuzzy on the details.

He’s the most articulate man in the world, remember? What we heard is EXACTLY what we’re going to get.

While I do not agree with closing Gitmo, these military commissions are not the same as those that prosecuted more than 1,100 during WWII (89% conviction rate). Unlike those, these MCA public trials, with a current military justice system riddled with liberal lawyers and a few outright traitors, precludes the heavy use of classified intelligence as evidence. In view of that, I support Andrew McCarthy’s concept of National Security courts (see the National Review Online).

DarkCurrent on November 25, 2008 at 1:56 PM

I was trying to state that our enemies have been emboldened by the outcome of this past election. I know I didn’t communicate it very well. I’m one of 2 people here in my building and I’m bored silly.

Step 2 Give the detainees a scar on the order of an appendix scar

Step 3 Release the detainees

Step 4 ‘Leak’ to the newsies info about the devilishly clever tracking devices installed in the former detainees

Los Angeles had been targeted in a follow-up mission by al-Qaeda after 9/11,

What a pity the Hollywood crowd doesn’t realize how Bush saved their whiney liberal hineys.

And all this time we thought setting a time for withdrawal of our troops from Iraq would embolden our enemies.

AubieJon on November 25, 2008 at 1:37 PM

If there was a point being made I missed it. Could you dumb it down a bit more?

Palin/Petraeus or the other way around. You heard it here first.

Los Angeles had been targeted in a follow-up mission by al-Qaeda after 9/11, and the Bush administration’s interrogations uncovered the plot and the plotters, ending the threat.

these things should be more widely known

The way to humble America is to allow thousands more Americans to die and thus win the love of our European betters.

johnsteele on November 25, 2008 at 1:35 PM

On the upside, there won’t be a Democrat elected president for about fifty years.