Dems Want Gitmo Prisoners Housed Near You

The Dems aren't just interested in cutting-and-running from Iraq - they want to quit Gitmo too and bring those prisoners to the mainland U.S.:

Key House Democrats plan to insist the Pentagon shut down the detention camp at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, and are contemplating the relocation of many of the 385 or so remaining terrorist suspects to military brigs along the East Coast -- including Quantico, Va., and Charleston, S.C.

"It sets us back in the war on terrorism to be maintaining Guantanamo," said Rep. Jim Moran (D-Va.), who's heading an investigation of the facility for the House Defense Appropriations Subcommittee.

"It will enhance our reputation to close it down and to apply our system of justice to all of these detainees," he added.

This is precisely the problem that the Dems don't understand...the detainees at Gitmo aren't entitled to our system of justice, both because they're not American citizens and because they're not being held in U.S. territory. If either one of those things change, our court system will suddenly be filled with terrorist legal proceedings.

The Dems have only one answer for everything they don't like; cut the funding:

After two trips to Guantanamo, Moran told The Politico that he's recommending Congress cut funding to the detention center at the end of summer 2008. The men held there should then be released, tried or moved to the United States, he said.

A Democratic official involved in developing the Guantanamo strategy said the Democrats, who control the new Congress, expect Republicans to object to bringing the detainees onto U.S. soil because their attorneys would surely argue they were entitled to myriad new rights.

I'd like to say that President Bush will never allow these cruds to be moved to the mainland, but the way Bush has caved on many other issues that the Dems complain about, I'm not so sure.

Better set another place at the table. Achmed is coming to town.