July 11, 2006

GENEVA CONVENTION ?

The Bush Administration, whatever THAT  means, has done it again. Cruising in overdrive after a week or so of restoring our confidence in his/their-whatever, being competent, he/they go and show weakness and a touch of stupidity. I say he/they and his/their, because I never know whether the stuff that happens in a Republican Presidents administration comes from HIS policy or from the sneaking of some country club republican dweeb that always abound in Washington or some Clinton or other democrat/leftist holdover. We always hope it wasn’t GW, just like we always hoped it wasn’t Reagan, but, rather, those above mentioned.

THIS time we have some half wit in the Defense Department(I saw a lot of them in my 2 yrs there) (bureaucrat or appointee) in a  Deputy Secy slot spewing forth that the terrorists in Guantanamo have the protection of the hallowed (unless it protects U.S. , Israeli or other Allied troops) GENEVA convention. Balderdash! Nonsense! To name but one reason it doesn’t apply, (there are plenty) I ask the rhetorical question: Where in the name of lace panties,  are THEIR uniforms? What signatory of the GC claims these thugs? And, whenever considering this subject area, I ask myself: What would the 40 brave souls on Flight 93 think?

Some portion of the first story I read about this revolting development emanating from Mr. Deputy Secy, rambles about the Unconstitutional/Arrogant Sup CT decision, that alledgedly forced this policy announcement. Why is the Executive so afraid of that bunch on the Court,  that now serve the interests of Internationalism rather than the Constitution? That care not a whit about the American people as they go thru their wild gyrations to find a way to wrap their arms about Osama Bin Laden’s driver. Sadly, one has to observe that it fears somebody, and certainly NOT Americans from whom the Executive seeks support. Like the Amnesty question so clearly abhorred by a very very large majority of Americans, we are sick of the cow towing to the leftists who worry so, about the terrorists safety and rights. And the leftists of whom I speak are not just wearing jackass buttons. Considerable of them wear the pachyderm label. Try Mr Specter for openers. And John McCain. And more. McCain tends to live his political life in the past. Whether it is in those hellholes in Hanoi he KNOWS did not resemble Guantanamo or anything else of a policy nature on captives of the US, or his close brush with political disaster in the Keating thing that made him a crusader rabbit for campaign finance “reform”. In Ohio we have 3 classic products of the country club republicans that have run the republican show there for several decades. Taft “the golfer”, Dewine “the dweeb” and Voinavich “the cryer”. With friends like them who needs enemies? But I digress (a little).

Bottom line, we have a lesser light in the Dept of Defense, one Deputy Secretary Gordon England now telling us, with the President’s approval apparently, that we must play by the Marquis of Queensbury Rules with murdering islamofascists. Described by Tony Snow as “not combatants in the traditional sense”, they of course, playing by the bite and kick ‘em in the groin rulesbook. Can we really win a war with such a bunch of tender souls as we have just described? Time will tell. As the plaintive cry says in the musical “1776”. “Is anybody there? Does anybody care?”