Don't Worry, The Democrats Plan To Do It

Just what George W. Bush needs, advice from the Yemenis.

Our good friends who allowed the bombing of the USS Cole on their soil and who can't keep track of terrorists are just the people we need to take advice from.

Sure, it makes perfect sense. Let some of the world's most vicious killers walk free and the whole world will love us.

Pretty simple concept, no?

Yemen urges U.S. to shut Guantanamo to win good-will

Yemen has called on the United States to free all detainees at the Guantanamo Bay detention camp, saying the move would generate global good-will towards Washington.

Sure, just like all that good will that flowed our way during the Clinton years with the first attack on the World Trade Center, the Kenya bombings, Khobar Towers and the Cole bombing.

Can't you just feel the love?

About 100 Yemenis are being held at Guantanamo, making them the biggest group among the approximately 275 detainees there, according to Yemen's media.

"I hope that the United States releases all those held at Guantanamo, based on the principles of human rights, freedom and justice upon which your country was founded," President Ali Abdullah Saleh told President George W. Bush in a letter.

"I am sure that such an undertaking would draw a wide positive response from peoples and countries across the world," a senior Yemeni official quoted Saleh as saying in the letter.

Saleh said Yemen would study charges against the detainees and prosecute them under Yemeni laws.

If anything, this guy has a future in stand-up comedy.

Ah yes, the vaunted Yemeni legal system, so tough on terrorists.

Any observer of Yemen's political scene cannot help but notice that Yemen appears to be awash with al-Qaeda suspects. Mass trials follow mass arrests as hundreds of suspects flow through Yemen's legal system. Some are selected for execution and others for lengthy prison sentences, but many avail themselves of early release or periodic amnesties. The system seems designed to weed out those who present a direct threat to Yemen or its regime, while relieving U.S. pressure in the war on terrorism by offering a constant demonstration of activity. In the wings of this performance is the constant threat of an insurgency led by Yemen's powerful Islamist movement.