The Worst of the Worst

Well, thank god we started these extralegal, extrajudicial military tribunals to try the “worst of the worst.”  Because, lord knows, I wouldn’t feel safe at night if I didn’t know that the military was protecting me from guys who know how to drive.  For the next five months, I’ll know that I can get a safe night’s sleep.

The whole Guantánamo Bay fiasco has exemplified the Bush Administration. Executive overreach, absurd claims, insistence that they’re protecting us from the harsh realities that we’re not ready to face, and at the end of it, we’re left with this pitiful, laughable conclusion.  If this man really did anything to deserve thirty years in prison, I’m glad to know that the Bush Administration has screwed it up so thoroughly that a rigged, semi-legal military tribunal couldn’t even convict him of the main charge against him.  The last six years have been like Orwell writing for Monty Python.