Creeping Sharia noticed this story, and I’m just getting to it now:
WASHINGTON, April 30 (UPI) — Defense Secretary Robert Gates told a Senate panel Thursday he has asked for $50 million to build a cell block in the United States for Guantanamo detainees.
In testimony before the Senate Appropriations Committee, Gates hinted that up to 100 inmates from the base in Cuba could be moved to the United States, The New York Times reported. He said there might be 50 to 100 inmates who could neither be put on trial nor transferred to other countries
Also from Creeping Sharia: “You ain’t from around here, are you boy?”
HARDIN, Mont., April 24 (UPI) — Officials in a Montana city said they are looking to bring former Guantanamo Bay prisoners to a vacant jail in the town.
…Greg Smith, executive director of Two Rivers, said he has been talking to federal agencies and staff members of the Montana congressional delegation about bringing in prisoners from the Guantanamo Bay facilities in Cuba, which President Barack Obama has ordered to be closed in a year.
Gitmo, Gitmo, Gitmo. Say that name to a real die-hard liberal: it’s like raking fingernails across a chalkboard in an airplane full of screaming children on a 22-hour flight in pants a couple sizes too tight.
And why, exactly? Not because the weather is so awful in Cuba. Not because they want that real estate for a resort or a school or a nature preserve. It’s because of their perception of their government’s behavior toward Gitmo’s prisoners.
They hate Gitmo like they hated Abu Ghraib, because they think the prisoners are treated inhumanely; because they think the prisoners – men who would, if able, detonate explosives in marketplaces full of women and children – aren’t being granted their “legal rights.”
If so, Gitmo itself isn’t the problem. These things can happen anywhere. In France, or Germany, or England, or Turkey, or Montana. If the prisoners are being mistreated, it isn’t the fault of the place. Liberals are in charge now. If they don’t like Gitmo, they can change it. Instead, they want to close it, because…
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…there’s really no good reason for it. Except it might make Dubya look bad.