Khalid Sheikh Mohammed to be detained at GITMO indefinitely

  During his presidential campaign Barack Obama promised that he would close GITMO and end President Bush’s policy of labeling the prisoners there as enemy combatants in order to hold them indefinitely and without charges. During the campaign Barack Obama claimed that these practices were unconstitutional and he claimed that GITMO served as a recruitment tool for al Qaeda and other terrorist organizations that wished to attack America. He also made statements claiming that GITMO lessened our stature in the world and hurt the image of the United States abroad.

  Two days into his presidency Barack Obama signed an executive order with much fanfare that ordered the closing of GITMO within a year, while claiming that America was taking the “moral high ground” and stating that this would “restore the standards of due process and the core constitutional values that have made this country great even in the midst of war, even in dealing with terrorism.”

  The deadline for closing GITMO has come and gone yet GITMO–that great recruiting tool of al Qaeda according to Barack Obama–remains open. In fact of all of the president’s campaign promises on the wars in Afghanistan and Iraq, and on GITMO there is only one that he has followed through on–we are no longer calling the people we capture on the battlefield enemy combatants. Their treatment remains the same, they are still being held indefinitely and there are no charges forthcoming, yet the world is supposed to feel better about America because we no longer call them enemy combatants.

   And today we have learned from this article that the confessed mastermind of the September 11th attacks–Khalid Sheikh Mohammed–will remain at GITMO indefinitely without being formally charged  because the Obama regime can’t decide where this man’s trial should take place.

  Not only is this another broken campaign promise but if Barack Obama’s campaign rhetoric were true wouldn’t this make us less safe as a nation if al Qaeda uses the perceived unconstitutional injustices against Khalid Sheikh Mohammed to their benefit? Or is the simple truth that Barack Obama lied about GITMO and how the world viewed us because of it.

  If GITMO truly served as the recruiting tool for al Qaeda, and if GITMO diminished our standing in the world as Barack Obama claimed, surely the Obama regime wouldn’t let an issue of much less importance, like the logistics of a trial location, make us less safe as a nation would he?

  As the Obama regime continues President Bush’s policy on the issue of GITMO we are reminded of all of those campaign speeches in which he claimed that America has lost its moral standing in the world because of President Bush and his policies. Much was made of the issue of GITMO over the course of the presidential campaign as GITMO was made the poster boy of everything that President Bush did wrong in his prosecution of the wars. Yet now with Barack Obama in charge of the war effort and GITMO nothing much has changed other than the fact that the rhetoric has died down and the media no longer reports on these issues on a daily basis. Where are the protests about this news, and where is the media now? Is this news somehow more acceptable now that there is a Democrat in the White House? That certainly seems to be the case.

  This does not mean that these issues have gone away, they have just slipped from the public mind. I find it interesting that the left no longer feels GITMO is the recruiting tool of al Qaeda as they once did when there was a Republican in the White House. While the left  once thought that GITMO symbolized all that was wrong with America, it has now slipped from their consciousness and is now nothing more than that annoying little fly that buzzes around your head that you soon forget about when it is no longer in your face.

  GITMO is no longer in our faces on a daily basis, and the media is responsible for that, but it is still there are Barack Obama continues to hold detainees there without charges yet nobody seems to notice any more. What was once the great defining issue of America’s morality has slipped from the forefront of American thought and if GITMO were truly the issue that defined us as a nation this would not be the case.

  The truth is that GITMO was being used as a recruiting tool, but it was not al Qaeda which was doing the recruiting–it was the Democrat party recruiting voters by turning people away from the Republican party. GITMO was nothing more than a political tool being used to the benefit of the Democrat party and it worked liked a charm. The Democrats made a political issue out of GITMO and they did so at the expense of the men and women who were serving overseas in Afghanistan and Iraq at that time. The Democrats put the politics of GITMO above the issue of keeping America safe and the fact that Barack Obama has kept nearly all of President Bush’s war policies in place is proof that he was either just using GITMO for political reasons or he honestly had no idea what the hell he was talking about on the campaign trail.