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June 13, 2005
More on the Most Sensitive War Ever
Yesterday I linked to Drudge's scoop on the Time story about "Detainee 063" at Gitmo. Today Powerline prints a subperb letter from one of their readers. Discussing the Time's account, the reader points out what many people are thinking:
this is equivalent to what the average collegiate freshman athlete must endure from upperclassmen. It is also much, much less than what our elite Navy Seals, Army Rangers and Paratroopers experience during their bootcamps. Of course Amnesty International cares more about the comfort, dignity and well being of terrorists like Kahtani than any member of our special forces. I guarantee they will be crying about Kahtani's treatment which has been equivalent to a modest hazing at worst.
But what has really struck me to the quick and saddened by heart has been the comments from our elected Senators Hagel and Feinstein. Specifically Senator Hagel was quoted by CNN as saying the treatment of terrorist Kahtani was wrong, dangerous, very dumb, shortsighted, and not how you win Muslim people over to ourside. With these words Senator Hagel has betrayed the brave men and women who protect us from terrorists like Kahtani. He is placing American popularity in the world above the lives of innocent Americans like thousands who died on September 11th. I never thought I would see the day when a U.S. Senator would place the dignity and comfort of an al-Qaida terrorist above the lives of even a single American or an innocent Muslim for that matter. O how my heart weeps for the dedicated personnel who probed Kahtani for details about al-Qaida's plans and are now insulted and defamed on international television by a U.S. Senator for trying their hardest to protect innocent lives.
Clearly Senators Hagel and Feinstein have forgotten that the terrorist Kahtani was turned back from the Orlando airport in August 2001 while Mohammed Atta was there awaiting his arrival. How is it that they have forgotten that Kahtani planned to join Atta as the 5th hijacker on United Airlines Flight 93? How have they forgotten that Kahtani planned to use a boxcutter or similar instrument to slice the throat of any passenger or crew who resisted? How have they forgetten that Kahtani wished to shout praise to Allah as he and Atta plowed that aircraft full of innocents into New York Cities tallest skyscraper also crowded with innocents?
How have these U.S. Senators forgotten those who were incinerated on that day? How have they forgotten those who were so terrorized with fear and suffering that they jumped to their certain death rather than face the inferno of the Twin Towers? How is it that they have forgotten the brave who rushed to the rescue but never returned? How can they have forgotten about those who lost their lives in the Pentagon only a few miles from their plush Senate offices? How have they so quickly forgotten the brave souls who confronted their terrorist assasins and then lost their lives in a field just east of Pittsburgh? How is it that they have turned their backs on the dedicated men and women who have risked and lost their lives in the hunt to bring back alive evil men like Kahtani?
How do our Senators propose our troops pursue those who would slaughter our children, burn our cities and decapitate innocents? By giving quarter? By show respect and mercy? By providing cozy rooms, gentle questioning and frequent potty breaks to the relentless al-Qaida murderers and assasins? Even today Mohammed al-Kahtani eats a nourshing halal meal and breaths the warm Carribean air while the innocent blood of thousands still cries from the ground. When will they receive justice? When will our Senators fight for their dignity and respect rather than the diginty and comfort of the terrorists who designed their slaughter?
Bravo.
Powerline also picks up this article on Jerrold "Puff Daddy Nadler," a disgrace of a human being and a political whore who, despite this, runs virtually un-opposed (12 years and running; last fall, he agreed to debate his opponent with the stipulation that he'd be able to draft the questions himself; he told the audience he was "embarassed" he had to show up at all) in the HOR District that includes Ground Zero. (More: Last summer he signed a letter asking for the U.N. to "monitor" U.S. elections.) Writes Jacob Laskin:
Since the September 11 attacks, few politicians have matched him in their incendiary and frequently unscrupulous opposition to counterterrorism legislation. Few, moreover, have done as much as Nadler to bend the law to the service of convicted terrorists.
Meantime, GOP moderates are busy compromising again. Click here for a heated exchange between Brit Hume and Bill Kristol, to which Michelle Malkin responds (links omitted):
The new GOP anti-Gitmo squad's position amounts to a cut-and-run strategy--panicking in the face of ill-informed, hysterical attacks from our military's enemies at home and abroad. Even if, as Kristol claims, unnamed JAGs and senior NSC staffers and State Department officials have problems with how Gitmo has been run, there is no question from the mountains of documents the Pentagon has released to the ACLU and others that the military tracks and investigates alleged abuses, and has taken corrective action when they are warranted. I don't know who Kristol's anonymous sources are, but I'll take Gen. Myers' word over theirs sight unseen.
Some good news: If Congress is smart, after SCOTUS today declined to review the Jose Padilla "enemy combatant" case, which if Congress has its way could effectively make the outstanding Fourth Circuit the court of last resort for Guantanomo prisoners.
Posted by bill at June 13, 2005 01:32 PM
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