Focus On Next Year

It's just about time for us to initiate the mercy rule, call this game and get ready for camp next year because Al Qaeda has officially clinched this one.

The Mighty Obama Justice Department finally got a chance to flex it's muscles in court and prove once and for all that civilian trials of terrorists would ensure a satisfying justice for the American people. All summer during the KSM trial/tribunal debate we heard from Obama and his lackey Eric Holder how trials for terrorists were slam dunk affairs, Obama even opined that KSM would be executed. They call the idea of military tribunals unAmerican and provocative. Clearly the good people in Justice have been working hard on these cases since they haven't been prosecuting any illegal immigration or voting suppression cases. What could possibly go wrong when the might of the American legal system sets out to get one crummy terrorist the chair or life in prison?

Well, if your Ahmed Ghailani, you can get yourself acquitted of over 280 counts of murder and murder conspiracy and only get convicted of one count of non-murderous conspiracy. Sentence? 20 to life. Who are we kidding. This guy is going to be a non-violent offender in the American penal system. He's not serving life and we'll be lucky if he stays in the hole for 20. He'll probably get 10 years in the clink, 10 on probation/work release.

I'm sure Obama and Holder can somehow explain to the families of the 224 people killed in the embassy bombings in Kenya and Tanzania why this terrorist sociopath has a good chance of breathing free air while he still has meaningful life to live (he's only 36). Maybe they can explain how getting embarrassed by this guy improves our national image to the world community.

Maybe after they get done consoling the shocked and devastated families why the guy who helped plan and execute a plot to blow their family to pieces is not a footnote to history they can start explaining why they themselves are to blame for this outcome. After all, the only reason this guy gets the golden ticket is because the judge disallowed some witnesses because they were held in facilities where waterboarding took place. You remember waterboarding, the non-torture torture? The tactic that is so harsh that Christopher Hitchens asked to have it done to him a second time because he was embarrassed by his poor showing the first time he was waterboarded while researching a story? Yeah, that's the reason this guy is free. Liberals tried so hard to get Bush arrested for war crimes that they made up this idea that waterboarding is torture just to undermine him, now that same rationale is going to be used to free or reduce the punishment for Al Qaeda members.

Should any of you liberals still try and remove your guilt in this matter by still holding on to the idea that waterboarding is torture, just remember ol Chris Hitchens asking for a second go around. I'm pretty sure if someone ripped out his fingernail, raped him or threw acid in his wife's face, he wouldn't ask for a second go around to try and restore some of his manly image. You don't ask for mulligans in torture, ever. Maybe then you can properly contemplate the disastrous consequences of your actions.