Gitmo by any other name is still necessary - Biden: Close Gitmo but keep the ones we need to keep

Townhall.com ^ | June 15, 2005 | Jonah Goldberg

[OESY]

The Keeper:



Senator Joe Biden said that while we should close Gitmo and release the occupants, we should also "keep those we have reason to keep." Huh? This is the logical equivalent of Solomon saying, "Hey, let's cut the baby in half after all." Imagine if, instead of Gitmo, the issue was the death penalty. "The death penalty should be abolished, but let's execute the folks there's a reason to execute."

[OESY]

On a related subject:

[xcamel]

Why don't we set up "Camp ButMo" for moron senators - someplace nice... like the Aleutian islands (Russian side, please)

[popdonnelly]

What useful purpose would be served by closing it? Closing it suggests that we agree we are "bad guys".

[Venerable Bede]

Close Gitmo - send them all to Biden's house.

[Callahan]

"The death penalty should be abolished, but let's execute the folks there's a reason to execute." You could use torture as an example as well. Wait a sec...that's our actual policy.

[brooklyn dave]

As if closing Gitmo would prevent abuse of detainees...real or imagined. Couldn't the same thing happened at FT. Hamilton in Brooklyn or Ft. Hood in Texas? By closing Gitmo, another dear friend of ours...the bearded one....would feel that he has attained a victory. We cannot give him that legitimacy. I admit to not being a big supporter of the boycott of Cuba or of restricting travel of Americans citizens there either. But in regards to a specifically military operation (closing of a base)...it cannot be allowed to happen.

[negril]

The only thing I want to see shut is Biden's piehole.

[Calpernia]

Castro is very upset with his next door neighbor huh?

[Callahan]

Makes a certain amount of sense. Pay the whiners a little lip service to shut them up without really changing anything. Of course, they'll still find an exscuse to whine.

[Virginia Queen]

Would all you Vets out there please remind the world what we did during WWII, Korea and Viet Nam when we captured enemy combatants? I was born in 1943, but I cannot recall in my life nor in any history I have read learning that the U.S. had brought POWs onto our shores from other venues in order to give them the rights and privileges of Americans. Isn't that why they fight with our enemies - they don't want to live our way?
BIDEN AND HIS BUNCH ARE ALL IDIOTS!!!!!!!!!!

[RightWhale]

Move the target. In the age of mobility it is amazing that the military would retain such a sitting target. Don't they think strategically all the time?

[nikos1121]

Biden is your typical misguided fuzzy headed liberal dinosaur. His true colors are showing. He wants to obstruct the president. He's a first class phoney.

nick

[Yo-Yo]

Biden is your typical misguided fuzzy headed liberal dinosaur.

Crass remarks about Mr. Biden's hair implants are just mean spirited and uncalled for.

[GloriaJane]

These dim witted dem senators want to close Gitmo? Ok! But let's build a new prison really really close to where these senators are living. Let these senators and their families keep an eye out. You know, just in case some of the prisoners where to escape.

[Rodney King]

Why don't we set up "Camp ButMo" for moron senators

We have, it's called San Francisco.

[Frank_Discussion]

I guess he was just trying to get a "plug" in there...

[Always Independent]

Maybe we should release them into Cuba as payback for what castro did during the mariel boatlift.

[Howlin]

Castro is very upset with his next door neighbor huh?

Well, since his mouthpiece is talking, I'd guess yes. :-)

[Calpernia]

Dear Marines,

Please bring Castro a jello mold like a good neighbor ^-^