Yesterday, the House approved legislation that gives our government the authority it needs to interrogate and prosecute terrorism detainees.
From the Associated (with Terrorists) Press
The legislation would establish a military court system to prosecute terror suspects, a response to the Supreme Court ruling in June that Congress’ blessing was necessary. While the bill would grant defendants more legal rights than they had under the administration’s old system, it nevertheless would eliminate rights usually granted in civilian and military courts.
The measure also provides extensive definitions of war crimes such as torture, rape and biological experiments — but gives Bush broad authority to decide which other techniques U.S. interrogators can legally use. The provisions are intended to protect
CIA interrogators from being prosecuted for war crimes.
This is a good thing. Because, let’s face it, we need to be interrogating and prosecuting captured terrorists.
Democrats are — predictably — pissing in their Cheerios over this bill because they see it as a victory for President Bush. And — if nothing else — the Democrats hate Bush victories, even if they’re for the sake of the safety of our nation.
House Speaker Dennis Hastert (R-Illinois) on the Democrats voting against this bill:
So the same terrorists who plan to harm innocent Americans and their freedom worldwide would be coddled, if we followed the Democrat plan.
Of course, the only thing that Democrats hate more than a Bush victory is to have their patriotism or desire to defeat terrorism questioned. So in response, House Democratic Leader Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) said:
Democrats feared the House-passed measure could endanger U.S. soldiers by encouraging other countries to limit the rights of captured American troops.
Riiiiiggghhtt.
How much more could our enemy possibly “limit” the rights of PFC. Kristian Menchaca and PFC. Thomas Tucker? In case you need a reminder, go watch the video for yourself. I don’t need to see the video to remember. I was at PFC Menchaca’s funeral, and I saw his mother, his young wife, and his brother wailing at his grave.
Right now, our Soldiers only rights when they are captured by our enemies are the right to be barbarically tortured, have their heads cut off, have their bodies dragged behind trucks through town while happy Muslims spit on their bodies and encourage their children to throw rocks at the mutilated bodies.
What Ms. Pelosi and her Democrat buddies just don’t understand is that there is nothing we can do to make our enemies treat our captured Soldiers any better. And they’ve already explored the pits of human depravity in how savagely they’ll be killed.
You were fortunate to serve in the US Army when it had the reputation of treating prisoners well. When our enemy feels that surrender is tantamount to torture or death the result will be increased American casualties.
If the terrorists hate us for our freedoms isn’t simply capitulation to give these freedoms up? In other instances you want to express your defiance against the terrorists by, say, staging an opera. I would suggest that the rights of habeas corpus are far more vital to who we are as a people than our right to see ‘controversial’ theater.
Left by Preston on September 28th, 2006 at 11:16 am