The Gitmo Debate, and why it's BULLSHIT!

On Jan 21, 2009, President Obama appeased the base of his party by signing an executive order closing the Detainee camp in Guantanamo Bay, Cuba! Arguing that these prisoners had habeous corpus rights to trials, even though they were illegal combatants apprehended on foreign soil.

These detainees have been treated with kid gloves as far as POW's are concerned. They receive meals in accordance with religious beliefs, all of them have gained 15 pounds (on average) since being detained. They receive their own personal Koran, and are allowed to pray the customary 5 times a day, with arrows in each cell pointing toward Mecca. They routinely harass guards without retribution. They have been allowed military tribunals to determine their guilt or innocence. These tribunals have been modified and approved by the Congress 3 times. As far as being a POW, sounds like a pretty good gig.

Why do I bring this up? Where are our POW's? How are they treated? What kind of military tribunals are they offered by our enemy? The answer to that is, we have no POW's! They aren't offered any hearings! They are summarily killed by these butchers that we want to grant Constitutional rights to! How does this make any sense?

Two Navy service members disappeared and were captured by Taliban insurgents in Afghanistan late last week. The body of the second service member was found killed today. The first was found earlier this week, also killed. In 2005 2 soldiers were captured by Iraqi insurgents, only to be found having been tortured and beheaded, one of which was booby trapped to try and kill more of our service members.

You can not reason with savages! The only thing they understand is violence in pursuit of their goals. Justice at the point of a gun or edge of a knife. Why is there no out cry for the treatment of our POW's but, out pouring for the so called mistreatment for their POW's in our custody?

These people are animals and need to be treated as such. Our service members are their pray, and they have no concern for collateral damage. They have killed more civilians then our forces, and have no concern for killing their so-called brothers in the attempt to achieve their goals.

It's time we stop pussyfooting around with what we are fighting. It's not a War on Terror, terrorism is a tactic. It's not an "Overseas Contingency Operation". It is a battle against a force of Islamic radicals that have perverted a religion into a political ideology! This ideology is not only prone to insurgents, Iran, Syria, Hamas, Hezbollah all subscribe to this thinking. These are Middle Eastern governments and leaders of governments that want only one thing. The downfall and destruction of our way of life. This is not a game! Diplomacy is a non-starter! They only understand one thing...death! Be it theirs, or ours!

So, the next time someone complains to you about why Gitmo is still open and our harsh treatment of POW's, simply ask them how they feel about the treatment of our POW's. It's a question that can't be answered in any serious way!