Pencilneck sounds like he fears their customer response survey answers:
Republicans and some Democrats have criticized President Barack Obama for releasing five Taliban leaders from the Guantanamo Bay military prison in exchange for Army Sergeant Bowe Bergdahl.
But Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid says he's happy they've been freed and sent to Qatar.
"Guantanamo has been there far too long, and I think that we should get them out of there as quickly as we can," he said of the remaining 150 prisoners still classified as "enemy combatants" and held without charges.
"We've been held up from doing that by the Republicans, not wanting any of them to be tried here in the United States even though our record here is really quite good," Reid said on Tuesday. "So I'm glad to get rid of these five people, send them back to Qatar."
Sounds like Senator (G)Reid isn't running for president in 2016, huh?
I'll say it again: Either (1) Dirty Harry knows his days as Senate Majority Chisler are numbered, isn't overly fond of it or of the stomping his party has coming in November, and feels liberated to say the most outrageously provocative things he can that will maximally piss off his political enemies, or (2) he's lost his mind and got so excited in this instance that he laid an impressive turd in his drawers as he was extolling the Taliban "Gang of Five".
Even knowing he's probably amping up his rhetoric because he's got a re-election bid coming up in the "reddest" of states this fall, I rather like Lindsey Grahamnesty's retort:
South Carolina Republican Senator Lindsey Graham said Reid is "disconnected from reality."
"I wish they would've died in jail," Graham said Tuesday on Fox News Channel's "On the Record with Greta Van Susteren."
"There is not one shred of evidence that letting them go was based on the fact they're no longer dangerous," he said. "These people were let go for political reasons."
And those political reasons extend to how circumspect Senate Donks are being about looking into Barack Obama's lawbreaking in order to turn Harry (G)reid's "customers" loose:
The Senate plans classified hearings on Wednesday into why Congress wasn't given the legally required 30-day notice before prisoners are released from Guantanamo.
Graham said he would prefer public hearings, but Senate Democrats don't want an open hearing. That is the opposite of what they demanded when they heard testimony about detainee abuse at Guantanamo and Abu Ghraib.
"We had an open hearing. We put all our dirty laundry out there for people to see," Graham said. "Now, when it comes time to this release, they want to do it behind closed doors. That will not stand."
And your party held open hearings on Abu Ghraib why, exactly, Senator? To "set a good example"? In the hopes of building "bipartisan goodwill"? Do you see where those sentiments got you? Where they ALWAYS get you? Where they ALWAY S WILL get you? Nah, probably not.
Of course, Senate Democrats don't want open, public hearings on their demigod's violating the National Defense Authorization Act to set free the Taliban Dream Team. It would make their party look even worse to voters than it does already. Even the whitewash they'd give this travesty would blow up in their faces. And it's congressional Democrats, not Barack Obama, who would pay the price for it.
The White House, by the way, apparently thought that releasing the Taliban equivalent of Eisenhower, Patton, Bradley, Montgomery, and MacArthur to get back the real-life Winter Soldier would be a PR masterstroke:
Graham said he thinks the release was part of a coordinated plan by the White House to have what it thought would be two pieces of good news in one week about Afghanistan.
On May 25, Obama made a surprise visit to U.S. troops in Afghanistan, then made a commencement speech the same week at the U.S. Military Academy in which he discussed the pullout of all U.S. troops from Afghanistan. Then, at the end of the week, Obama intended to have Bergdahl, the only U.S. soldier held captive in Iraq or Afghanistan, released.
"He thought everybody would be cheering," Graham said. Instead, people are seeing the five men's image on TV and it reminds them that radical Islam is our enemy and Obama has let terrorists go free, Graham said.
NBC's Chuck Todd said the White House had expected public "euphoria" over Bergdahl's release. "They consciously put these two things together," Graham said. "It's blowing up in their face."
IOW, O thought that the American people were as desperate to "end the war" as he is. Now where would he have gotten a cockamamie idea like that? Because the American people re-elected him, of course. And in this singular instance, I can't really blame him. It's much of the same mindset that went into the ObamaCare cataclysm. "Hey, if they really didn't like ObamaCare, they could have replaced me with Romney, but they didn't. So that means they love ObamaCare as much as I do! Let's roll!" C'mon, isn't that what you would conclude?
Maybe if the American public would become proactive in their voting responsibilities instead of obtusely reactive, such horrific debacles could be avoided. But I guess that's just not the American way, is it?
This time, Senator Grahamnesty got it more right than his Sith Lord:
The United States had a duty to rescue Army Sergeant Bowe Bergdahl, but the trade for five senior Taliban detainees could endanger U.S. military service members, Senator John McCain told Newsmax on Tuesday.
"You have an obligation to do what's necessary to achieve the return of any American who is being held by the enemy," McCain said in an exclusive interview....
"But you must not take steps that would cause the lives of the men and women who are serving to be further endangered — and that is exactly what has happened here," he said.
Now everybody knows that John McCain spent five years as a POW being tortured on a daily basis in the "Hanoi Hilton," so it was probably inevitable that he'd have a soft spot for the notion of rescuing any U.S. serviceperson from enemy "captivity". But even a deserter and defector, Maverick? A man who is responsible, via the intel and assistance he gave to his
How do you separate and compartmentalize that from the price that was paid to get back a perfidious jihadi-symp like "Sergeant" Bergdahl? McCain is absolutely correct that springing the Taliban High Command will endanger countless more American lives, but a genuine military operation to go in and seize Bergdahl by force, as Senator Cruz opined the other day, would have had a blood cost as well. The latter option would have had the virtue of being an honorable means of rescuing a traitor, but it still would have been rescuing a traitor. It appears that the American public is having difficulty separating the two sides of this "prisoner transaction" as well.
Bergdahl's ex-platoon mates, however, suffer from no doubts about what his fate should be:
Sergeant Bowe Bergdahl needs to stand before a military court of justice and explain his choice to desert the U.S. Army in Afghanistan in the middle of a war, a self-described friend and former platoon-mate of the freed American soldier said on Tuesday on Newsmax TV.
"Yes, he should face a court-martial because he should be responsible for his actions and be judged on his actions," Gerald Sutton, an Army specialist in the platoon in Afghanistan from which Bergdahl disappeared, told "America's Forum" hosts J.D. Hayworth and John Bachman, and Newsmax contributor Francesca Paige.
"And whatever the decision comes down to, I would respect it fully, whether it be not guilty, guilty, or whatever punishment they deem worthy of giving him," Sutton, now attending college, said on Tuesday.
But Bowe Bergdahl won't be court-martialed. He'll never have to face justice for his desertion and defection to the Taliban. No, he's an official "hero of the Regime," which means he's the hero of EVERY American, whether we like it or not, because he served the Taliban with honor and distinction by doing whatever he could to make amends for all the "war crimes" perpetrated by the "warmongering" Bush Administration which launched this "war of Islamophobic conquest, aggression, and genocide" against the poor, oppressed, enslaved Muslims of Afghanistan, who now have five of their "heroic sons" back.
Isn't that right, Senator (G)Reid?
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