Today the media reported Khalid Sheikh Mohammed admitted to being the mastermind behind a multitude of terrorist strikes against the US and our allies. Mohammed admitted to either financing, training or conspiring the first World Trade Center attacks in 1993, what your author calls former President Clinton’s inability to grasp the seriousness of a global epidemic, the Richard Reed attempted shoe bombing incident and the 9-11 attacks. These three should be noted as just a few from a laundry list he has provided to his captors. It is safe for the reader to assume that if the camp at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba had not been installed Mohammed’s confession and the other intelligence gathered for the War Against Terror would not have happened. Understanding the relationship between detaining terrorist suspects and the pursuit to ensure Western Civilization is preserved is critical.

Roll call time now; the American Left, which is represented by the rank and file Democrat Party, wanted to all but abandon Camp Guantanamo. Several on both sides of the aisle decided they had more to prove to the detainees and not to the safety of American society.

Senator Arlen Specter, a pseudo Republican from Pennsylvania that relied upon President Bush’s endorsement to become reelected, wished to restore the habeas corpus for the detainees. This would have allowed detainees to challenge their imprisonment. This also meant they would have access to the US court systems and not ones overseen by the military. It also meant that a publicly funded lawyer would represent them. Specter’s actions were par for the course given his past record of opposing wiretaps being conducted on behalf of the National Security Agency.

In December 2005 the American enemy known as the ACLU issued a letter to members of Congress urging them to vote ‘NO’ as it related to bills introduced by Senators John McCain and Lindsay Graham that would have called for limited liability on government officials who imposed what they described as torture techniques to obtain data from detainees. Additionally the ACLU called for the US Supreme Court to oversee any legal action brought forth as a result of  Guantanamolace Bay. The ACLU certainly enjoys redefining Constitutional rights as it relates to non US citizens and places that aren’t necessarily covered by US laws.

Democrat Senator Russ Feingold of Wisconsin issued a letter to the President outright calling for a change in lGuantanamol Bay, essentially siding with the ACLU. He even goes on to say that the Bush Administration has been too focused on Iraq and has ignored al Qaeda. Wake up good Senator, there hasn’t been a terrorist attack since 9-11 and the Iraq War must be accomplishing something of significance.

Loveable liberal Democrat Senator Patrick Leahy from the maple syrup bastion known as Vermont has referred to as Guantanamo Bay as a disgrace and liken it to the events surrounding Abu Ghraib prison. In his letter he also ties a lack of international cooperation with combating terrorist as a direct result of the prison camp. Nothing could be further from the truth as plenty of countries have joined the US in attempting to wipe out radical Islam.

Readers if the ACLU and just this sample of Senators had their way the confession from Mohammed would have never been known. There would have been no reason for him to say anything in so long as tax payer funded lawyers defended him in front of the Supreme Court. It is becoming more apparent to your author that many on our Senate floor, most notably critical and seasonal Democrats, are having a time politicizing the issue of national security. When it comes to national security and terrorists, who won’t abide by any legal statute that prohibits torture, there is no room for debate.