Webb; we can’t call ourselves Americans

Spoiled brat, Senator Jim Webb told a group of University of Virginia students that we should shut down the Guantanamo detention facility because it’s un-Americans according to the Washington Examiner and AP;

Webb said he agreed early in the war on terrorism that such a facility was needed. “But there comes a point where people need to be dealt with through the legal system,” Webb said. “I think that time has come.”

People? Sure, Jim, people should be dealt with through the legal system. But the only people at Guantanamo are our troops who are guarding a pack of rabid creatures who want to kill women and children.

After speaking to the students in professor Larry J. Sabato’s class on American politics, Webb told reporters that the detainees should either be declared prisoners of war or charged in the American judicial system if the U.S. continues to hold them captive.

“We can’t just continue to hold people in limbo without charges for this period of time and still call ourselves Americans,” Webb said.

Then what are we? Sitting ducks? In my opinion, as valueless at it might be, we’ve never been threatened by an enemy like this before, so our response calls for a unique response. Much like Bill Clinton’s unique solution to the haitian immigrant problem – he put Haitians escaping Haiti on Guantanamo in a tent city for an undetermined amount of time. Did Webb have a problem with that?

Webb admits that he was in favor of the detention of the creatures at Guantanamo before he succumbed to Bush Derangement Syndrome, why has he suddenly lost his way? Maybe because it’s not politically expedient? Declaring these creatures POWs will only make their lives better – that’s not what they’d do for us if given an opportunity. Putting them in our legal system will only unneccessarily overburden untrained civilian personnel.

Webb also went on to complain to the students that his job is hard because he has to vote on stuff and he’s tied down to his office. How can we treat a US Senator like that and still call ourselves Americans?

Category: Politics, Terror War