He's Done It

With the stroke of a pen, President Obama signed an Executive Order to close the military prison at Guantanamo Bay Cuba within one year. What exactly is to be done with the current inmates that occupy it has not yet been determined. Apparently, some of them could conceivably wind up in US prisons, given that other countries are not actually lining up to take some.

This looked to me like more of a campaign promise fulfilment rather than a carefully thought out plan. (I can remember a recent former president being strongly criticized for not thoroughly thinking out his attack of Iraq). It seems that Obama supporters are all for closing Gitmo, but cannot come up with an answer as to what to do with the terrorists held there. My friends, it's all a simple case of the good, the bad, and the ugly.

THE GOOD: Liberals see nothing but good in closing down this facility, as they are more concerned on how its' ruthless occupants are treated.

THE BAD: I strongly encourage anyone reading this to carefully look at the picture of the 911 mastermind below. Now, can anyone truthfully say they wouldn't mind having him live in their country, much less in their neighborhood?

THE UGLY: Just imagine these people being put into our justice system. Any loophole or technicality could return any of them to the street. Do we really want this?

It's bad enough that they want to kill us, so let's just simplify their goals by bringing them into our country! Bad decision Mr. President.

Potential Costly Mistake

Glenn Beck of Fox News tells it like it is. Today, President Obama announced that he had ordered the closure of the military prison at Guantanamo Bay. I personally don't think that the new administration thought this thing out too carefully. There is a lot more to this than closing the prison. There remains the fate of the prisoners currently incarcerated there. Keeping in mind that they are all terrorists with ties to Al-Quaida, they would have to be transferred to other locations on the mainland.

While the idea gets many kudos amongst liberals, these same people don't want these criminals in their back yards. Whatever happened to 'you can't have your cake and eat it too'? Not to fear, though, Glenn Beck proposes to send them to Alcatraz Island in San Francisco Bay. True, it's located in House speaker Nancy Pelosi's district, but because she supports the President's idea, maybe she should be in charge of housing them! It's important to remember that many of these people return to the battlefield once they're released, as has been discovered in recent raids. Just think of it this way, Madam Speaker, every one of these suspects you release could cost many of our brave soldiers their lives.