WW()D?

and more Friday evening dumpage...

We go rafting up on the Lower Kern over the weekend and come home to find out that in addition to passing cap and trade late Friday (which included a 300 page un-read (un-readable?) amendment), the most ethical Congress ever found time to squeeze in a moment-of-silence tribute to an alleged child molester on the House floor during the debate on that same piece of, uhh, legislation.

Also, taken out with the trash right before the weekend was the fact that (President Bush) was, in seeking to avoid a battle with Congress over the closing of Club Gitmo, crafting language that would re-assert presidential authority to incarcerate terrorism suspects indefinetely.

Recall that (President Bush) criticized the previous administration for its policies regarding the long-term detention of detainees and insisted that any detention program must include Congressional and judicial oversight.

With the flurry of activity that went down in D.C. going into the weekend, we're relieved to learn that despite all the flailing and posturing some things never change.

You know, maybe closing Gitmo won't be so difficult after all.

Depending upon our motivation and the material which we have to work with (which has been plentiful, by the way), we are thinking of adding a weekly/semi-weekly feature on the weekends called the Friday evening dump. A long-cherished institution by which the sitting Admnistration unloads bad/unpopular news on a nation that just wants to get its weekend on.

Even the L.A. Times gets in on the act of the Friday dump by burying the following deep in a story regarding European reluctance to take detainees that we don’t want within our own borders:

In Washington, the Justice Department said Friday that three more Guantanamo detainees had been transferred.

The detainees were sent back to Saudi Arabia, their home country, where officials will review their cases before sending them to a rehabilitation program. One of them was identified as Ahmed Zuhair, a relatively high profile detainee who, has been protesting his detention since 2005 through a hunger strike and has been force-fed liquid nutrients.

During a hearing in Guantanamo in October 2004, Zuhair was accused of involvement in the 1995 killing in Bosnia-Herzegovina of William Jefferson, a U.S. official with the United Nations. At the tribunal, U.S. officials said Jefferson's watch was found on Zuhair.

Zuhair also was convicted in absentia by a Bosnian court in a 1997 car bombing in the town of Mostar. He also allegedly told another detainee he was involved in the bombing of the U.S. destroyer Cole in 2000, according to evidence presented at a Guantanamo proceeding.

Of the 200+ Club Gitmo residents that have not already been sold off to South Pacific tropical resorts (transitioning from Gitmo will be a cinch), you start to see that we are left with the cream of the crop as far as jihadists go and why it is that these people are still there… well, used to there.

And this is what we do with them: we give them back to their home country and a country whose royals have been the source of funding of terrorist activity for years now, and we send them to this country for…. rehab?

If this is going to be our policy for closing Gitmo then let's just get on with it and release these cretins here in the U.S. and most preferably in states with right to carry laws where at least we can keep an eye on them rather than fast-tracking them back into the global terror network via our petrol-dictating and terror-funding friends, the Saudis.

Yep, we’re in good hands.