Thread: Republican Hypocrisy on Terrorism Reaches New Levels of Awful

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But that last part about giving "terrorists the rights of Americans" and letting them "lawyer up," is fascinating coming from Mr. Cheney.

Maybe the worms have begun to infect his brain to a point where he's forgotten about how his administration allowed Richard Reid, the "Shoe Bomber," to be prosecuted, tried, convicted and incarcerated on American soil in our civilian judicial system. And which administration was it that released the Yemeni plotters from Guantanamo? Guess. The year was 2007 and unless Barack Obama has a totally rad time traveling DeLorean, President Bush and Dick Cheney were running our anti-terrorism efforts at that point. Good job again, Mr. Cheney!

Originally Posted by Vlade.the_medic

Shoot them all.... That's all I gotta see...

shoot who?

the terrorists or the elected officials?

Originally Posted by jason_jinx

Originally Posted by Vlade.the_medic

Shoot them all.... That's all I gotta see...

shoot who?

the terrorists or the elected officials?

There's a difference?

I think they should have had the underpants bomber go hunting with Cheney.

Originally Posted by ***COMMANDER***

They should be tried by the military, in a tribunal.

If you give them civilian rights, they don't get interrogated, they plead the 5th.

They also can have their case thrown out on a technicality.

Terrorist don't deserve protection under the Constitution, which is for American Citizens and giving them this, is a dis-service to our Citizens of the United States of America.

Do you realize how ridiculous you sound.

Did any of fears ever come true with the shoe bomber? He was tried in public court did he walk free?
Superman "could" fly down and save these guys on the way to trial........ see how easy that is just to make up crap of what "could" happen.


The trial is for show and to make it public so we can truly understand how terrorists work.

Originally Posted by jason_jinx

Originally Posted by ***COMMANDER***

They should be tried by the military, in a tribunal.

If you give them civilian rights, they don't get interrogated, they plead the 5th.

They also can have their case thrown out on a technicality.

Terrorist don't deserve protection under the Constitution, which is for American Citizens and giving them this, is a dis-service to our Citizens of the United States of America.

Do you realize how ridiculous you sound.

Did any of fears ever come true with the shoe bomber? He was tried in public court did he walk free?
Superman "could" fly down and save these guys on the way to trial........ see how easy that is just to make up crap of what "could" happen.


The trial is for show and to make it public so we can truly understand how terrorists work.

He doesn't sound ridiculous at all; he's absolutely correct. We are not dealing with criminals; we are dealing with terrorists, i.e., enemy combatants, and there is a huge difference. Once we allow the captured enemy to "lawyer up" we have lost much of the ability to extract actionable intelligence from them; we're relegated to offering them something in return for information (reduced sentence, nicer prison, ice cream on Sundays, who knows?).

Past mistakes do not excuse the current mistakes being made by this administration. It has always been a mistake to try these terrorists in our criminal courts. For example, Ramzi Yousef, the purported mastermind behind the first WTC bombing in 1993, is not just some common criminal. Oh, sure, he was tried and convicted in a U.S court and will spend the rest of his life in a U.S. prison. But this fellow is also the nephew of Khalid Sheikh Mohammed, the "principal architect" of the 9/11 attacks. What actionable intelligence might we have extracted from Yousef had he been properly interrogated by the CIA? Who knows? Perhaps we would have obtained enough information to prevent the 9/11 attacks. We'll never know.

These people do not belong in the criminal courts. Military courts are the appropriate place for them. And, in my perfect world, Jack Bauer would be in charge of their interrogation.