Senator Hatch says that Gitmo is pretty darned nice compared to the facility where some yahoos want to transfer the detainees to in Illinois…
“I’ve been to Guantanamo,” Sen. Orrin Hatch (R-Utah) said today at a hearing of the Senate Select Committee on Intelligence – as the subject of the federal government’s intentions of purchasing the Thomson Correctional Center in northwest Illinois came up.
“It’s pretty nice compared to Illinois — the place in Illinois where they want to put them,” Hatch said in the committee hearing. “It’d be nice and cold in the winter time and… all I can say is that I imagine there’ll be a hue and a cry that we’re not fair by bringing them here.”
Yes, there will be weeping and gnashing of teeth -by both United States citizens as well as the entire terrorist community. Because if they can’t bitch about one thing, they’ll pick 17 more. It’s not about a slight, real or imagined. You could kiss their asses… but as long as you don’t worship their God, you need to die…. preferably by suicide bomber.
“Among the things that we can do that would weaken al Qaeda would be to close Guantanamo and diminish the emotional and symbolic support that that gives them in the pool of people they try to recruit in order to come against us,” Dennis Blair, the Director of National Intelligence, told senators at the committee hearing.
“Well, isn’t it true that al Qaeda used to prosecute — the prosecution and imprisonment of a blind sheikh as a recruiting tool and that al Qaeda members have said they were inspired to attack us because of that incarceration?” Hatch asked. “You know that’s true. Is there any intelligence that suggests al Qaeda would not use a prison located in the United States as a recruiting tool? ”
Blair is wrong. They’ll use any excuse available. Hell, they’ll make ‘em up.
Hatch noted that:
“Well, I think the point I’m trying to make,” Hatch said. “I think it’s easy to see… that no matter what we do, they’re going to criticize us.”
Until and unless we adopt sharia law and all turn to allah, they’ll come after us. Any and all other reasons are a means to an end.
3. February 2010 at 7:36 pm
And that’s the whole point there. We are not dealing with people that can be negotiated with or rationalized with. They do not merely want to be left alone. They want to take the entire world back to the Dark Ages. The only way to “reason” with these people is to make it known their efforts will be in vain, that they will die uselessly for a lost cause, that we will make their cause look so bleak and hopeless that recruitment will be impossible. Anything short of that is appeasement.
3. February 2010 at 9:31 pm
Yep!
3. February 2010 at 7:47 pm
I say we just execute them and then they won’t be in a prison anywhere. Just my 2 cents.
3. February 2010 at 9:32 pm
Well, now there’s an idea! If they’re terrorists and so hideous that they must be kept on an island for years at taxpayer expense… hell, I’ll buy a bullet.
7. February 2010 at 10:43 am
So, do you think Al Qaeda would get upset if we drew cartoons of the Gitmo terrorists?
7. February 2010 at 10:59 am
Hell, they’re upset if we draw breath.