Robert Gibbs: Close Guantanamo because Al-Qaeda “recruiting videos have used the prison”
Via Jake Tapper:
I will say this. I have seen some far crazier comments today — comments from people like John Boehner. Here’s what I would suggest for John Boehner. Call up Leon Panetta or Denny Blair at the CIA or the director of national intelligence. Ask them if he can come down and watch a video put out by Al Qaida senior leadership like — the names that we recognize, (Ayman al-) Zawahiri. Thirty-two times since 2001 and four times this year alone, senior Al Qaida leadership in recruiting videos have used the prison at Guantanamo Bay as a clarion call to bring extremists from around the world to join their effort.
Let me get this straight. The idea is that because they hate something we do and they use it in their propaganda, we should cease doing it?
But why stop at the prison at Guantanamo Bay (which after all is only being relocated)? They seem to really hate infidels, too– I’d institute a non-voluntary conversion of all Americans to Islam. And the ensuing Inquisition? Sounds like jobs to me!



