Who is Yoo?
We welcome dicksmith back from his vacation, but apparently his time away from VetVoice hasn’t made him any brighter;
First off, I’m not sure how John Yoo controls the ‘right wing”opinion. We’re not a monolithic voice like the MoveOn/VoteVets/George Soros crowd who are paid to have a certain position. It looks to me like Yoo expressed his opinion separately from the rest of us on the right. That’s the same kind of bullshit that influenced me to target VetVoice in the first place.
Next, I challenge the smithy of dicks to find another right-side opinion writer who doesn’t think killing bin Laden was a good idea. I’m pretty sure that any intelligence we would have gleaned from an interrogation of bin Laden wouldn’t be worth the criticism we’d get from the anti-America crowd around the world for imprisoning the old guy. Including some of the writers at VetVoice.
And, if we did take him alive, of course he would have gone to Guantanamo. Where else would we put him? In the Bradley Manning suite at the Leavenworth Hilton? Imagine the security considerations for imprisoning bin Laden in the continental US, to protect him as well as the surrounding communities. If he was still alive, cretins like Noam Chomsky, Media Benjamin and Jose Vasquez would be camped outside the prison waving a bloody shirt – only Guantanamo makes sense.
And Khalid Sheikh Mohammed gave the right answer because he was threatened with further waterboarding, and he didn’t want to go through that one more time. Check your timeline, junior.
And, oh, by the way, my sources tell me that bin Laden didn’t get 5.56mm bullets to his face – you even got that part wrong, dickie.
All of that being said, this blog is glad that bin Laden is dead and we wouldn’t have it any other way. John Yoo doesn’t speak for this small band of right wingnuts.
Maybe dicksmith would be better off criticizing his own side for complaining that we killed bin Laden. Folks like the brilliant strategist and national security expert, Rosie O’Donnell.
Category: Terror War
Throw Fat Mikey into the, “He deserved to be tried!” group as well…
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1384410/Michael-Moore-says-Bin-Laden-tried.html?ito=feeds-newsxml
“We’ve lost something of our soul here in this country, and maybe I’m an old-school American, who believes in the American justice system, something that separates us from other countries. ‘We say everybody has their day in court, no matter what sort of person, no matter what piece of scum they are.”
Yo, Mike? STFU and go back to the buffet line.
Yoo isn’t part of the “deserved to be tried” group. Nor does he question the judgment of the SEALs to kill him there at that moment when their lives were still at risk.
Yoo simply thinks, in the best of all worlds, it would have been more useful if we could have interrogated bin Laden.
RandyB is right. The other thing about Yoo is that he is making a distinction – one that has placed him in the middle of a legal crapstorm ever since he wrote the legal opinion regarding interrogation – was OBL a prisoner much the same as tweaker or shoplifter, and executed? Or a combatant committing a hostile act who was shot?
The nuance rips apart the POTUS’s and his Attorney General’s jurisprudence. As we saw during the trial of Ahmed Ghailani in NYC, the POTUS is not above permitting due process, and then imprisoning the person for several decades in the event of an acquittal (http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2010/11/17/AR2010111705663_2.html?sid=ST2010111706077). Obama and Holder have given us sermon after sermon on terrorist being ordinary criminals, and should be accorded due process.
Yoo’s been pursued, harrassed, had his law license and jobs threatened, all because he wrote a legal opinion. He’s just having fun pissing in his critics’ wheaties for displaying such brazen hypocrisy for giving us lengthy sermons on the law, and then abandoning the law once it came time to deliver.