Feeling the onslaught of an attack machine, the administration has decided legally trying the criminals in a court of law is not so god.  Is this not the same type of outrage we see when child rapists and brutal serial killers get trials?  People cry and cry and cry that the "bastards" do not deserve the system of justice. However, the system of justice is to preserve the rights you and I have every single day, citizen or not.  For every guilty bastard, what we just suspended justice and sent them to military tribunals?  Are they not enemies of the victims and of decency?

The politics of moving Khalid Sheik Mohammed and others back to military commissions gives the administration some leverage to move forward with some of its other goals.  Namely, that goal is closing Guantanamo Bay.  By appeasing the whiners in Congress and the media, the administration will be able to twist arms to get the closing of Guantanamo through.  By the way, the administration has already failed the goal they set the day they took office: close Guantanamo in one  year. Promises like that are always destined to fail, because the realities of governing set in.  Mainly, those realities are spineless legislators that bicker, pander, and whine at every turn in sad, pathetic attempts to live up to some pedestal of representative morality.

Even the logistics of military commissions are ridiculous.  So far, only three legal military commission trials are on track.  One man, David Hicks, plead guilty and was able to serve to for his heinous war crimes: nine months in addition to his time already served.  Wait! Wait! He was able to serve his nine months in Australian prison. What the?! Exactly. See why I think the military commission trials are complete farces.  The other two cases, Salim Ahmed Hamdan and  Omar Ahmed Khadr, are locked up in legal wrangling over jurisdictional issues and various continuance motions. 

Feeling the onslaught of an attack machine, the administration has decided legally trying the criminals in a court of law is not so god.  Is this not the same type of outrage we see when child rapists and brutal serial killers get trials?  People cry and cry and cry that the "bastards" do not deserve the system of justice. However, the system of justice is to preserve the rights you and I have every single day, citizen or not.  For every guilty bastard, what we just suspended justice and sent them to military tribunals?  Are they not enemies of the victims and of decency?

The politics of moving Khalid Sheik Mohammed and others back to military commissions gives the administration some leverage to move forward with some of its other goals.  Namely, that goal is closing Guantanamo Bay.  By appeasing the whiners in Congress and the media, the administration will be able to twist arms to get the closing of Guantanamo through.  By the way, the administration has already failed the goal they set the day they took office: close Guantanamo in one  year. Promises like that are always destined to fail, because the realities of governing set in.  Mainly, those realities are spineless legislators that bicker, pander, and whine at every turn in sad, pathetic attempts to live up to some pedestal of representative morality.

Even the logistics of military commissions are ridiculous.  So far, only three legal military commission trials are on track.  One man, David Hicks, plead guilty and was able to serve to for his heinous war crimes: nine months in addition to his time already served.  Wait! Wait! He was able to serve his nine months in Australian prison. What the?! Exactly. See why I think the military commission trials are complete farces.  The other two cases, Salim Ahmed Hamdan and  Omar Ahmed Khadr, are locked up in legal wrangling over jurisdictional issues and various continuance motions.