Shocker: Democrats Won’t Fund Closing Of Guantanamo Bay
In order to close down Guantanamo Bay you have to have money. The detainees have to be moved somewhere. Supplies and equipment have to be moved out. Personnel has to be brought in to handle it all. It isn’t cheap. But you’d think that the Democrats, who made a campaign issue out of how evil Guantanamo Bay is, would be happy to pay to remove the black mark on America’s soul (as they have it) the detention facility represents.
As it turns out, the Democrats are finding that Gitmo is an easier issue to campaign on than it is to handle as political leaders.
WASHINGTON (AP) - President Barack Obama’s allies in the Senate will not provide funds to close the Guantanamo Bay prison next January, a top Democratic official said Tuesday.
With debate looming on Obama’s spending request to cover military and diplomatic operations in Iraq and Afghanistan, the official says Democrats will deny the Pentagon and Justice Department $80 million to relocate Guantanamo’s 241 detainees.
This comes on the heels of yesterday’s news that Senator Jim Webb has now flip-flopped on his support for closing the detention facility. Which, again, indicates that the Guantanamo Bay issue is a lot tricker than the Democrats realized. Remember that back in January, Obama’s Secretary of Health (then still Governor of Kansas) Katherine Sebelius said that she didn’t want the Gitmo detainees in her state.
And that’s the problem. Far from being the sympathetic victims the liberals have made them out to be, these are dangerous prisoners of war. Releasing them, or even just moving them somewhere else, is problematic.
Really, what this all indicates, is that Bush had it right about Guantanamo. It’s never been the best solution, but it’s always been the best among a lot of bad options.
