Sunday, October 08, 2006
Our Dear Embattled Leader sure is tough on terrists
Except when they blow up people he doesn't like. Such is the case with Luis Posada Carriles.
Of course, if Our Dear Embattled Leader were to throw him onto Gitmo, as he now has the power to do, then no one would have to worry about him spilling any CIA secrets and he could die on Cuban soil, sort of. Sounds like a plan to me.
Thirty years ago, long before liquids and gels were restricted on airliners, a tube of Colgate toothpaste may have brought a plane down from the sky.So if you are the driver for Osama you get thrown into Gitmo for eternity where the guards may do with you as the Preznit wishes. If you blow up a Cuban airliner, well we might have to let you go because we only charged you with an immigration violation.
Cubana Airlines Flight 455 crashed off the coast of Barbados on Oct. 6, 1976, killing all 73 people aboard. Plastic explosives stuffed into a toothpaste tube ignited the plane, according to recently declassified police records.
Implicated in the attack, but never convicted, was Luis Posada Carriles, a Cuban exile who has long sought to topple the government of Fidel Castro.
Today, Mr. Posada, 78, is in a detention center in El Paso, held on an immigration violation while the government tries to figure out what to do with him. His case presents a quandary for the Bush administration, at least in part because Mr. Posada is a former C.I.A. operative and United States Army officer who directed his wrath at a government that Washington has long opposed.
Of course, if Our Dear Embattled Leader were to throw him onto Gitmo, as he now has the power to do, then no one would have to worry about him spilling any CIA secrets and he could die on Cuban soil, sort of. Sounds like a plan to me.
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