The Roanoke Slant

There is a major uproar over Scotland releasing the Libyan responsible for the Pan Am 103 bombing that killed 270 people. The Scottish government is touting their “compassion” for a dying man as their motivation.
http://www.cnn.com/2009/WORLD/europe/08/20/lockerbie.bomber.reaction/index.html
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Perhaps calls for a boycott of Scottish travel and goods should be tempered by the actions of Obama and the liberal American judges who have “quietly” turned loose 28 of the GITMO prisoners.
U.S. District Judge Ellen S. Huvelle recently admonished the government that Mohammed Jawad was very young! Apparently the judge didn’t mention in her decision that the US soldier and the two Iraqi interpreters that were killed by Jawad’s hand-grenade were also “young” and were forever denied life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness.
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2009/07/30/AR2009073000155.html
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The Scotland action and Judge Huvelle’s actions form a very convenient cover for Obama’s position to shutdown GITMO and send everyone home. After all, the war on terror is over (it was just a Bush thing anyway!) and we have been so nasty to all those folks who were killing our people.
http://roanokeslant.blogspot.com/2009/01/movinonup-from-gitmo-to-san-quentin.html
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It’s interesting that the terrorists don’t have any problems with prisoners they take. For example their handling of newsman Daniel Pearl certainly was swift and free of complicated legal maneuvers. Daniel was also “young”.
http://roanokeslant.blogspot.com/2007/03/gitmo-bad-guy.html
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Prior Items:
http://roanokeslant.blogspot.com/2009/07/terrorists-are-still-waging-war.html
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http://roanokeslant.blogspot.com/2009/06/inconvenient-terrorist-attack.html
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http://roanokeslant.blogspot.com/2009/05/audacity-of-moral-reprimanding.html
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