Barry In Charge: When Pleasing The Left Kills Our Soldiers

Guantanamo Bay's Camp Delta

We've had to hear this drivel for years, now: "America's secret prison", "Torture camp", "Unconsitutional blight on our country". All of this angst and outcry caught just enough traction with just enough anti-Americans like George Soros that Rep Murtha had to take notice.

And almost as soon as we started filling the cells at Guantanamo Bay, the efforts to close it were already mounting. The same crowd that was apoplectic over the election of 2000 was still grinding away at our attempt to protect this great country from the beginning.

Frankly, I trust the Army's average soldier, his ethics and morals. It was the average American infantry soldier (like me when I wore the same uniform) who captured these prisoners, and I believe that those detainees in Guantanamo are former enemy combatants. There is no secrecy about this at all, but to the anti-Americans in our midst, they want to portray this time-tested method of fighting a war as if it's a 'neo-conservative' tactic dreamed up by Bush and his cronnies.

So we've been trying to defend the use of this camp called Guantanamo for years, now. We've been met with significant effort to release prisoners, but there has always been a legitimate reason, we have said, to keep this camp and it's detainees operating for the duration of the war.

And now, as the commander-in-chief changes hands, we see an agent of this anti-Guantanamo Bay, anti-American emerge to strike down this multi-million dollar facility which allows the inhabitants more luxuries than American prisoners are afforded. Obama pranced around so smugly during the campaign, assuring his beloved democrats that Guantanamo would be closed immediately if he became president.

But look what happens! The little boy of the primary season wrote checks that he can't cash, now. Try as he might, Obama WON'T do the bidding of the Move On crowd, but will carry on exactly as George Bush did for at least another year.

Before the actual elimination of Guantanamo takes place, I hope that some Armed forces personnel assigned to the White House will show Obama this article that came out today:

BEIRUT: The emergence of a former Guantánamo Bay detainee as the deputy leader of Al Qaeda's Yemeni branch has underscored the potential complications in carrying out the executive order that President Barack Obama signed that the detention center be shut down within a year.

The militant, Said Ali al-Shihri, is suspected of involvement in a deadly bombing of the U.S. Embassy in Yemen's capital, Sana, in September. He was released to Saudi Arabia in 2007 and passed through a Saudi rehabilitation program for former jihadists before resurfacing with Al Qaeda in Yemen.

His status was announced in an Internet statement by the militant group and was confirmed by a U.S. counterterrorism official. "They're one and the same guy," said the official, who insisted on anonymity because he was discussing an intelligence analysis. " He returned to Saudi Arabia in 2007, but his movements to Yemen remain unclear." (source)