Topic: Politics
This week's DSCC email comes from the one and only mind of Senator Patrick Leahy, who is showing his ire over the Guantanamo prison SNAFU. So what does the distinguished whiner have to say? Let's take a look.
Yesterday, the White House reversed its irresponsible detainee policy when it announced that all prisoners being held at Guantanamo Bay are protected by U.S. law and the Geneva Conventions. Of course, it took a Supreme Court rebuke of George Bush's illegal military tribunal system to get even this mild concession. - It's Cuba. Guantanamo detainees still had more rights than the average Cuban citizen, but unfortunately Leahy is right on the money.
For more than four years, the Bush-Cheney Administration has invited the ire of the world over its treatment of terrorist detainees at Guanatanamo. Our ability to win the hearts and minds of Muslims across the world has been irrevocably damaged. For what? No trials. No convictions. And now we are back to square one. I am outraged. - You're outraged? We're outraged that you're trying to win the hearts and minds of Muslims across the world. These people cut the heads off of our citizens and scream "Death to the USA" from rooftops. Up your ass, Leahy. Don't be a dick.
This, from the same people who have desecrated the meaning of the American flag by countenancing torture, illegal detention and illegally spying on our citizens. The same people who have now disbanded the special task force to hunt down Osama bin Laden. - Senator Leahy, did you not support the disbanding of the task force, which was brought to a vote by the Democrats? You did. Did you not support the wire tapping of possible terrorist activity in the United States? You did. You lose.
No one disputes that we are at war with a ruthless and intractable enemy. But this is America. And in America, we don't judge ourselves by the standards of our enemies. Our behavior is governed by a higher standard, and anything short of that is an assault on the core values on which this country was built. - So your idea to beat a "ruthless and intractable enemy" is to play by a kinder, gentler set of rules? Our final thought on your email is "you suck, Patrick Leahy."
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