Who has less backbone? Congress or American citizens?
Daylife/AP Photo used by permission
The U.S. Senate passed a measure Wednesday that would prevent detainees at the U.S. military prison at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, from being transferred to the United States for now.
The measure passed with overwhelming bipartisan support in a 90-6 vote. A similar amendment has already passed the House. It was attached to a supplemental war funding bill.
Following in the steps of House Democrats, Senate Democrats rejected on Tuesday the administration’s request for $80 million to close the Guantanamo facility. They instead asked that President Obama first submit a plan spelling out what the administration will do with the prisoners when it closes the prison…
Congressional Democrats, however, are now attempting to avoid an onslaught of criticism from Republicans, who argue it would be reckless to shutter the prison before deciding where to transfer the detainees.
Are there more Republican cowards than Democrat cowards?
In response to a question from Texas Rep. Lamar Smith, the ranking Republican on the House Judiciary Committee, Mueller said he is concerned about the potential for fundraising to support terrorist groups and the radicalization of others, as well as the potential for attacks within the country…
German POW’s in Mississippi
We’re talking about a couple hundred raggedy-ass detainees who our politicians fear can mislead all the patriots and miscellaneous scumbags in federal prisons into armed insurrection. After learning enough English and Spanish, I guess.
I hate to remind my ignorant fellow-Americans – and opportunist political hacks – but, by the end of World War 2, that battle against the might of German, Japanese and Italian imperialism which murdered tens of millions in the worst genocide in human history – we had over 400,000 prisoners of war in the United States. Most of them from Nazi Germany.
The Republican and Democrat ideologues of New Mexico who populate a bastion of enlightenment called the Roundhouse are ready to pass a law banning such dangerous practices – just like Congress. Forgetting that there was even a pretty solid cotton raising industry in this state during and after WW2 entirely manned by hundreds of German P.O.W’s. Some of whom liked New Mexico enough to settle here instead of taking repatriation.
I guess that strain of courage and self-assurance has departed the American gene pool.
You don’t expect Americans to know any history, do you?
This is a nation of wee, sleekit, timorous beasties. Doing what they are told.
moss
May 21, 2009 at 6:39 am