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To: Sully- who wrote (59756)	6/8/2007 10:23:26 PM
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Pity The Terrorists By INVESTOR'S BUSINESS DAILY Friday, June 08, 2007 4:20 PM PT War On Terror: What do the Senate Judiciary Committee, Democratic presidential candidate John Edwards and the Council of Europe have in common? All think you can kill terrorism with kindness. Was last week "Be Nice to America's Enemies Week"? On Friday, the Judiciary panel voted 11 to 8 to reinstate habeas corpus rights to Guantanamo Bay detainees, with liberal Sen. Arlen Specter of Pennsylvania the only Republican on board. Maybe Specter & Co. think the Islamofascists will get a taste of American justice and start to like us. On Thursday, former Sen. Edwards unveiled a plan to fight terrorism with a new 10,000-strong pseudo-Peace Corps of "professionals" headed by a new Cabinet-level position. They would somehow reduce global poverty and al-Qaida recruitment. Like Specter and Senate Judiciary Democrats, Edwards seems to believe terrorists will stop if they see how nice we are. Also on Thursday, the Council of Europe's Committee on Legal Affairs and Human Rights issued a report on the lack of niceness shown toward terrorist detainees in CIA "black prisons" abroad. Here's what the European elites consider torture: • "Detainees were taken to their cells by strong people who wore black outfits, masks that covered their whole faces, and dark visors over their eyes." • "Clothes were cut up and torn off; many detainees were then kept naked for several weeks." • "Detainees' hands and feet were clamped in handcuffs and leg irons. Bodies were regularly forced into contorted shapes and chained to this ring for long, painful periods." • Prisoners had "a bucket for a toilet" and "old, black blankets that were too small to lie upon at the same time as attempting to cover oneself." • Breakfast was "typically two or three triangles of cheese with no foil, two slices of tomato, some boiled potatoes, bread and olives." Lunch was "boiled white rice with sliced luncheon meat." On special occasions, including certain religious holidays, "special foods including cooked meat with sauce, nuts and dates, fresh fruit and vegetables, or pieces of chocolate were delivered to the cells." • Only "a thin foam mattress" was used as a bed. • "Air conditioning for deliberate discomfort . . . over-heating in the cell; at other times drafts of freezing breeze." • "Detainees speak hatefully about the surveillance cameras." • Relentless noise and disturbance . . . loud Western music . . . cackling laughter, the screams of women and children." That last item sounds like what the average Bronx resident puts up with every Saturday night. Surveillance cameras everywhere? Isn't that endured by shoppers at Wal-Mart or Target? Even Edwards' "peace corps" plan says: "We must aggressively gather intelligence in accordance with proven methods" and "do everything we can" to get the information and keep us secure. President Bush is the author of the "proven methods" of interrogation and surveillance — the CIA foreign prisons program and the National Security Agency surveillance program. His aggressiveness and determination to "do everything we can" has led to the foiling of numerous terrorist plots and thousands of lives saved. Unlike the Euro-bureaucrats, leading Democrats and foolish Republicans such as Specter, this president believes in fighting the global war on terror to win. ibdeditorials.com