When we were courted by prospective Presidents two years ago, some of the recurring Democratic themes of that election were the promises to close Guantanamo, promises to end the war on terror and to end the military persecutions of captured combatants.
At that time I felt that those promises were mostly hot air, when faced reintegrating warlike Muslims or risking public criminal trials, leadership would have to err on on the side of pragmatism. The Bush White House team was pragmatic and time is proving that out.
The Department of Justice, having a forced military confession from Ahmed Khalfan Ghailani for his planning role in the bombing of US embassies in 1998, and later repeated admissions via FBI interrogations, thought they had a good for-show case fit for a civilian trial. A federal judge has now excluded the government's key witness, the man who sold explosives to Ghailani. Now our President and his politically racist DOJ is left holding an empty bag.
So here you have it, the President has not closed Guantanamo, he has changed the name or terrorism, and when he tries to institute civilian trials the exact thing that John McCain promised has happened. We got our ass stomped by rules that don't fit the situation.
On this one, most people thought they were wrong to try, now they have proved it was wrong to try. Sad part is that if this man finds freedom, some of us might loose our lives by it.
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