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Mukasey's 'Goal' is Closing Guantanamo
Mukasey wouldn't commit to recommending to President Bush that the Guantanamo Bay detention facility be closed. Shuttering Gitmo, reportedly, was one of Defense Secretary Robert Gates' first major recommendations to the president earlier this year.
Responding to Sen. Herb Kohl (D-WI), Mukasey said he's "not prepared to say, close it... there's no easy solution." His concern is figuring out what happens to the approximately 330 detainees still within the island prison. But he did say that "I'm prepared to say we need to get the best advice and the best ideas we can, with the goal of closing it down." He considered himself in broad alignment with the administration, since Bush said last year that he'd "like to close Guantanamo" but also added a number of caveats.
He's willing to close it down "because it's hurting us" not, primarily because it's wrong, but because "it's hurting us".
This putz is also saying that the detainees at Guantanomo have had humane treatment, he's sucking down the kool-aid in major quantities, folks.
Don't get me wrong he's probably the best we could get out of these crooked assholes, but if he's not a liar, he's big-time gullible, and isn't that toss-up a hell of a note, for an office that was once filled by Bobby Kennedy? Where the hell are the conservatives with the integrity and balls of Bobby Kennedy?
The only honest Republican still in the party appears to be Ron Paul, and in many ways he's as crazy as a bedbug.
October 17, 2007 12:22 PM | Reply | Permalink