Video: Sen. Jim Webb: No Guantanamo Detainee Should Come To The United States
Posted on May 18, 2009
Webb makes a point that needs to be repeated consistently until it gets through some thick skulls. The point we should concentrate on is how we are to process these detainees, not just shutting down Gitmo and figuring out the important details later. That would be a foolish jump bound to have countless consequences we will regret. Let’s figure things out first, instead of cleaning up a bigger mess later.
I think Guantanamo has become the great Rorschach test of how we feel about international terrorism. We should, at the right time, close Guantanamo. But I don’t think that it should be closed, and in terms of transferring people here.
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I think what has happened is Guantanamo has become the issue rather than how we process these people who were detained there.
….and yes we know this is a flip-flop for Webb.
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Will Democrats attack Webb and call him a DINO? Democrat in Name Only? Or is this just a GOP weakness?
Here’s an idea. Why don’t we have our military vacate Guantanamo and let the ACLU take over? They could rename it Freedomland to get rid of the stigma, and allow the detainees to establish an Islamic paradise in the Caribbean.
All we have to do is keep an eye open, and blow out of the water any IED-loaded ‘56 Chevys hydroplaning to Florida. The only questions then would be, how long would the ACLU administrators keep their heads? And how long before Havana gets a 9/11? They’re inFidels too, you know!
Consider it a liberal social experiment. Seems to be the Order of the Day lately.
It looks like he is not confident that Virginia will stay a blue state.
I wonder on what points he actually is not pandering to the voters of his state.
I would say his weakness may be in economics since he appears to support Obama’s spendthrift ways.