Dumbest "debate" since Obama took office...

Closing Gitmo and where to put the "detainees".....Seriously, who really thinks we couldn't securely lock these people up on one of our federal supermax prisons in such a way that they would have basically no impact on the prison, much less the community, around them? We are the best at locking people up! We have some of the sickest cult leaders and serial killers in the world locked up in our prisons, along with the other million or so prisoners of varying hardcoreedness.....I have not doubt at all we could handle these people. I mean, seriously, they're basically either Middle Eastern hilljacks with their own brand of ignorant hate and religious zeal or old men who like to send those hilljacks out to blow themselves up for their 'cause'.....Also, NO ONE IS SAYING THAT ANY OF THEM WOULD BE RELEASED INTO THE UNITED STATES.....christ......

I can understand if Congress didn't want to fund a program that hasn't been planned well and laid out before them, not that they don't do that on a fairly regular basis, but the rest of their howling is just stupid......I also understand that they are just representing the scared silly NIMBYs in their districts, but one of the jobs a leader must do sometimes is educate the people that they lead.....I don't think that people who are smart enough to make it to the highest levels of government really believe the crap they're supposedly worried about, but they need to pass down some calming common sense to their constituents so they can stop being panicked idiots by proxy.....

If you haven't been following, here's a link:

http://www.nytimes.com/2009/05/21/us/politics/21detain.html?partner=rss&emc=rss

Thoughts?




Edited by .Ryan - 20 May 2009 at 7:57pm

I think the real issue is that it looks like President Obama made the promise that he'd close Gitmo without a real plan in mind. Not being able to say "Okay, here's what we're gonna do" left people to draw their own conclusions.

Instead of giving us a blueprint, he gave us a bumper sticker.

Bipartisan idiocy covers a lot of what has happened in the last 6 months.

Bring them to AZ, we will put them in tent city.

Well, most of them probably aren't used to it anymore...Plus, they'd be a lot less illogically scary in pink undies....lol...

Edited by .Ryan - 20 May 2009 at 10:05pm

Now you know where the McRib meat comes from, and why it's not always available.

I always thought there was a semantics reason.

If they are held captive in another country, they are detainees.

If they are held captive in our country they are Prisoners of War... which is frowned upon.

FROG MAN wrote: i dunno, the debate around torture might beat it for "dumbniss"

God I hope that's intentional.

Peter Parker wrote: agentwhale007 wrote: I loled @ "Their not warlocks."   Way to go, editor-boy...   :)

I'm glad someone pointed it out.

choopie911 wrote: FROG MAN wrote: i dunno, the debate around torture might beat it for "dumbniss" God I hope that's intentional.

the quotes weren't enough?