Since the "detainees" do not comply with the Geneva rules they clearly
have no protections as POWs, yet our liberal political organization
wants to go even further and process them with the same rights and
privileges our civilian courts provide to regular citizens of this
country. See the Habeas Corpus Restoration Act of 2007 promoted by
Patrick Leahy and Arlen Specter. These prisoners are aliens and in most
cases have intimate knowledge of military information that can help
save our soldiers' lives. They nominally belong to the radical Muslims
sworn to carry out their Jihad against the "decadent" Western society
by creating terror in the form of suicide bombing the Infidels that
don't want to belong to Islam. To aid their violence, they fire from
children groups and hospitals, push bound prisoners from rooftops and
slowly slice the heads from hostages.
These captured thugs are the worst of the worst, captured in action
against our interests, mainly from Iraq and Afghanistan. Our intent is
to obtain their military intelligence, difficult to obtain in any other
way, to help aid our military efforts in the field. To this end the CIA
was authorized to conduct a special interrogation program which allowed
for "waterboarding," a form of simulated drowning. The political left
immediately called it torture even though the courts have defined
torture as "intense, lasting and heinous agony." At any rate, the
process proved effective where it was used on a total of three
prisoners. Our lefties still shout that the Bush administration was a
terrorist regime and demand that Gitmo be closed.
Some of this nonsense, I'm certain, is created by monetary
contributions being given to the Democrats by the Trial Lawyers
Association which have much to gain from being involved in this issue.
Our new president has signed orders to close the base within 12 months.
If this is carried out on schedule, it will shut off our best source of
military intelligence, which is almost impossible to obtain in any
other way. It is said that infiltrating those whose minds have been
radicalized to murdering is not an easy task.
There is no doubt that with Guantanamo out of commission we will be
less safe and more lives will be needlessly lost on the battlefield as
a result. It is tragic that for political purposes, our Democratic
party politicians refuse to separate fact from fiction and make this
worldwide war, that the West is in, much more difficult.
Potter lives in Waitsfield.
