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

[rlmorel]

I do believe he was referring to his mental prowess as "fuzzy headed"...:)

[MplsSteve]

That's what I've been thinking for the last week or so.

Let's close Guantanamo and move the detainees to a facility in Delaware.

Biden would freak out if something like this were to happen.

[YOUGOTIT]

Biden, Woman Killer Ted and TRAITOR Leahy are anti-American fascist. They hate the American people and will do anything to regain power so that they can let the terrorist in.

[rlmorel]

Here is what I see as the BOTTOM LINE.

1.) Since we cannot kill people on the battlefield once they have surrendered, we need a facility to keep detainees such as we currently have.

2.) Closing the facility means we need to open another one somewhere else.

3.) Guantanamo Bay is the perfect location. There can be no demonstrators outside the gates of the prison.

4.) The prison is run by United States Marines. As a former Navy brat who used to see them run the prisoners down the street each day, and as a Navy man who has seen them at work in the brig aboard a carrier(ahem, not intimately,so to speak)I can attest there are no better, more disciplined guards on earth. Misbehavior and prisoner abuse are usually the result of poor disicpline.

[Ditto]

Biden: Close Gitmo but keep the ones we need to keep in Delaware!

You know, they used to joke back before the Civil War that South Carolina was too small to be a nation, and too large for an insane asylum.

I'd say judging by their choice of Senators, Delaware is too small to be a state, but just the right size for an insane asylum --- or detention facility for insane Islamonazis.

[hineybona]

Notice the libs are up in arms about Gitmo but have nothing to say much about the rest of that dictator ruled island and the REAL horrors that still go on there today under Castro ..Frauds , the lot of them ..Socialist bastards..

[nikos1121]

sorry...

[Howlin]

Jelly? Good thinking!

[xcamel]

eeeeeew!.....

[IonImplantGuru]

As a former Navy brat who used to see them run the prisoners down the street each day, and as a Navy man who has seen them at work in the brig aboard a carrier(ahem, not intimately,so to speak)I can attest there are no better, more disciplined guards on earth. Misbehavior and prisoner abuse are usually the result of poor disicpline.

If I'm not mistaken the 'alleged' abuse has not been from the guards, but rather the interrogators - who I believe are Army and civilian agency people.

I agree with your opinion of Marines as guards, since I have the same background as you: Navy brat (Dad was a 20 yr AD) and 11 yr Navy vet (subs, plus USS Kitty Hawk).

[OESY]

This country doesn't so much have an "image" problem as it has a "Desperate Democrat" problem.

For months, Dems and their media cheerleaders have been tearing down the image of the U.S. and poisoning world opinion about our country. They feed overseas news outlets and antiwar groups with exaggerated accounts of prison abuses, fabricating stories whenever it appears to be to their advantage.

They think, wrongfully IMHO, it will help them politically in the next election by securing the moonbat vote that might stray to Nader or his ilk.

The solution to the image problem is not to close Gitmo; it is to ship these critics who aid and abet our enemies, and hinder our prosecution of the War on Terror, to Guantanamo for the duration of the conflict.

That would serve their interest in prison diversity since they would be able to commune with the prisoners, lock arms and sing Kumbaya together; that is, if their throats are still in tact.

[jec41]

Biden is your typical misguided fuzzy headed liberal dinosaur.
Crass remarks about Mr. Biden's hair implants are just mean spirited and uncalled for.

Actually Biden suffers for Alzheimer and those are not hair implants. They are electrical pulse implants attempting to stimulate some thought.

[mtntop3]

It's evident that Sen. Biden has respect for life - as indicated simply by the hair implants on the top of his head.

Surely, it follows that cultivation of hair follicles indicates compassion for humanity.

[rlmorel]

Thanks for the correction, and...thanks for your service.

When I was a kid, and I lived in Subic Bay, my buddy and I used to go down just to look at the ships. The USS New Jersey was in port, and she was beautiful. There was a Marine guard, standing at attention at the bottom of the gangway.

He stood there, at parade rest, not moving, not blinking. Of course, we had to run up to him to try to get him to move, and he wouldn't do it, even when we poked him in the belly with our fingers!

Hehe, frikking stupid kids, we were, but he must have know how awed we were that he wouldn't move a muscle for us!