Democrat Senator John Kerry wrote a piece for CNN.com that appeared on its website yesterday. In it, Kerry praised Obama for banning harsh, yet effective, interrogation techniques and ordering the closing of terrorist detention facilities around the globe. Let’s look at a few highlights that demonstrate the shortcomings of the Democrat brain.
Kerry wrote:
In a season of transformational changes, these are among the most meaningful, because they send a powerful message that America’s struggle against terrorism will once against honor some of the most cherished ideals of our republic: respect for the rule of law, individual rights, and America’s moral leadership.
Damn, that John Kerry is an idiot! Obama’s order last week prohibited waterboarding and other harsh interrogation techniques, ordered closed terrorist detention facilities at Guantanamo Bay and other clandestine CIA jails around the globe, and basically gave terrorists full protection under the United States Constitution.
Who is the message being sent to? Did Obama’s executive order send a message to terrorists and others who want to do America harm? And what is that message? That it is now easier to commit acts of terrorism against the United States and should you do so, you will be treated humanely, unlike your treatment of civilians whom you targeted with acts of terrorism?
The only message Obama sent is a message of cowardice and weakness. But hey, it isn’t surprising that a man named “Hussein” would make it easier for terrorists to commit terrorism, is it?
Kerry continued:
The president understands all too well that the threat our nation faces from terrorism is all too real. And we should all agree that sometimes, in the name of national security, it is necessary to make difficult ethical decisions to protect the American people.
How is closing terrorist detention facilities going to make America safer? How can anyone–even someone with a defective brain like a liberal–possibly argue that letting dangerous terror suspects out of jail is a good way of protecting the American people?
Kerry further adds:
However, I and many others believe that the use of torture and indefinite detention have not only tarnished our honor but also diminished our security.
Uh, how so, John? It has been proven that waterboarding provided actionable intelligence which prevented terrorist plots from being carried-out. It has also been proven that a few terror suspects released from Guantanamo have joined terror groups and participated in terrorism. These are bad people, you money-marrying moron. How can you possibly argue that letting them out of jail makes America safer?
Kerry continues:
In this global counterinsurgency effort against al Qaeda and its allies, too often our means have undercut our efforts by wasting one of our best weapons: the legitimacy that comes from our moral authority.
How stupid must you be to say something like that? Do you think Bin Laden, or any other terrorist, gives a rat’s ass about America’s “moral authority”? Do you think they sit around and say, “America has stopped pouring water on the faces of our beloved terrorists thanks to Barack Hussein Obama. Therefore, we will now cease all acts of terrorism and live in peace with our fellow man.”?
Liberals do not rely on facts to form viewpoints and they confuse allegory with real facts. There is not a terrorist in the world who is going to look at America’s “moral authority” when determining whether or not to carry out an act of terrorism. Only a liberal idiot would dare make such a suggestion.
Kerry continues:
Torture plays directly into a central tenet of al Qaeda’s recruiting pitch: that everyday Muslims across the world have something to fear from the United States of America.
Worst of all, what Kerry has done is blame America for terrorism instead of blaming the terrorists who commit the civilian-targeting bombings.
Did Clinton “torture”? No. Did acts of terrorism occur under Clinton? Yes. Several occurred. And 9/11 was plotted while Clinton was still President.
Obviously, treating terrorists with respect and treating terrorism as a criminal act instead of an act of war, which the Clinton administration did and the Obama administration plans to do, does nothing to stop terrorism. The Clinton administration did nothing after the World Trade Center bombing in 1993 to prevent Al Qaeda from committing terrorism against American targets around the globe and here at home. The result: Al Qaeda continued to flourish and commit acts of terrorism undaunted by Clinton’s kid-gloves treatment.
As a matter of fact, Bill Clinton could have had Bin Laden killed or possibly captured in the mid-1990s, but refused to do so because he did not believe we had a sufficient basis for criminal charges on which to hold Bin Laden.
What happened? Bin Laden roamed free because of the Democrats and committed 9/11 which killed 3,000 people on American soil.
That’s how wrong the Democrats have been on terrorism. Democrats are wrong on every issue, all the time. The events of 9/11 proved just how wrong Democrats were then, and how wrong Barack Hussein Obama is now.
Being nice to terrorists does not work!
Kerry adds:
As we move forward, President Obama is wise to “reject as false the choice between our safety and our ideals” — but the American people should know that closing a prison conceived outside the rule of law will not be easy.
Reclaiming Guantanamo and its inhabitants into our legal system from what former Vice President Dick Cheney called “the dark side” will be an enormous challenge and a thicket of thorny legal and policy issues.
Terrorists are not US citizens and are not entitled to the protections of the United States Constitution which Democrats wished to give for years, and Obama is now giving them. Further, terrorists do not wear uniforms and do not represent a country and are thus not entitled to the protections of the Geneva Convention.
But that won’t stop the Democrats from making terrorists honorary United States citizens. Is it surprising, given that Democrats want open borders? I wouldn’t be surprised if Obama moves all the terrorists from Guantanamo to a housing project in Chicago and lavishes them with welfare benefits.
Kerry, despite his bleeding heart, admits the following:
In some cases we simply lack evidence to charge men we know to be extremely dangerous to the American people.
He admits that some of those terrorists at Guantanamo are dangerous. But how can he know that if he admits we “lack evidence to charge” them? Do you know what Kerry is preparing us for? I’ll tell you: letting terrorists go free.
John Kerry is a moron. I don’t know who is a bigger moron: him or Barack Obama.
Regardless of who is the bigger moron, both of these men–and the entire Democratic Party for that matter–are making America less safe by planning to release terror suspects into global society and by giving them the protections of the United States Constitution which should only be granted to citizens, including the high threshold that is the burden of evidence intended to protect citizens–not terrorists–from overzealous prosecution.
Now, Democrats are demanding that terror suspects be protected by the Constitution, even if that means giving knowingly dangerous terrorists their freedom because of technicalities.
It’s amazing to watch liberals spin policies that make it easier for terrorists to kill Americans, isn’t it?
On the positive side, if any acts of terrorism occur on American soil, they are most likely to happen in Democrat-leaning population centers. And as far as I’m concerned, the more dead Democrats there are, the better.