Generals: Let's End GOP Bedwetting (Retired Military Leaders Say Stop Fear-Mongering)

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Retired Military Leaders Say Stop Fear-Mongering, Close Guantanamo to Ensure National Security

Dozens of retired military leaders praise prosecution of Guantanamo detainees in U.S. Federal Courts
http://www.humanrightsfirst.info/pdf/111809-letter-closing-guantanamo.pdf
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We have watched with disappointment efforts to engender fear among the American people about the prospect of bringing suspected terrorists to the United States for trial. Our federal justice system has a proven track record of successfully prosecuting terrorists and incarcerating them safely in our prisons. Our courts have convicted 195 terrorists since 9/11. Meanwhile, there have been only three successful prosecutions of terrorists by military commissions over that same period; two of those found guilty were released in less than a year. Those convicted in our federal courts, including many al Qaeda terrorists, are serving long sentences in federal prisons. The highly respected American Correctional Association, the nation’s largest corrections organization, in a recently passed resolution assured the American public they "would be safe from harm and free from danger should any detainees be transferred to a facility or facilities within the United States." Our prisons currently house more than 150 convicted terrorists and none has ever escaped.

The American people can have confidence that our judicial and penal institutions are strong and that our military, law enforcement and corrections professionals are second to none.

http://www.dailykos.com/storyonly/2009/11/19/805982/-Generals:-Lets-End-GOP-Bedwetting

[SpiralHawk]

1. "But, but, but...FEAR & FAIL is all we got." - Republicon Homelander Chickenhawks

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2. too bad democrats don't capitalize on republican attitudes these days really nt

[mwb970]

3. Why are conservatives so down on America?

Do they really think this country is not capapble of trying and incarcerating criminals? This sounds like the kind of charge that would come from the agents of some puny paper-tiger foreign country bad-mouthing America. In some ways, it is exactly that. Hearing these wingnuts express so little confidence in their own nation is somewhat unsettling, especially since these are the "America is #1", flag-waving types. Or is that only for when we are starting wars or killing and torturing brown people?

They hate the government, they hate the president, they hate the troops (once they're home), they hate the judicial system and the prison system. They hate the immigrants that are the future of the country (including legal ones).

In what sense are today's conservatives worthy of being called "Americans"? Their rhetoric is so often identical with that of our sworn enemies, sometimes word for word. (al Qaeda hates Obama too!)