Five Stinking Months
I’m flabbergasted at the sentence handed down to Salim Hamdan, the guy who drove Osama bin Laden around for years, who was privy to his plans to kill tens of thousands of Americans all over the globe. Prosecutors had sought a penalty of 30 years to life for his crime.
Instead, the judge sentenced him to 5 1/2 years and gave him credit for time served. Which means that for the crime of directly supporting Osama bin Laden in his bloody war against the civilized world, Salim Hamdan will serve five months.
Five. Months.
That’s less time than it took for his former boss to plan the 9/11 attacks.
That’s less time than it took for us to clear the 1.8 million tons of rubble that had been the World Trade Center.
That’s less time than it took to repair the USS Cole and put her back in service.
That’s less time than we searched for the remains of the victims at the World Trade Center.
That’s fewer days than the number of people killed in the embassy bombings in Kenya and Tanzania.
That’s only one month more than it took for authorities to find the dismembered body of Daniel Pearl after he was kidnapped and beheaded on video.
That, folks, is not justice. It’s not even close.
This sentence is why is is a fool’s game to treat terrorists like common criminals. They are not, they are militants, fighting a war against us every single day. They don’t take vacations. They don’t take a break from trying to kill us to go on book tours. They have one goal – to destroy the civilized world and bring it under the rule of Islam. That’s not simply the most important thing they want; it is all they want. They won’t stop until we give them a very, very good reason to stop.
Right now, they are laughing at us.
(via memeorandum)
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Category: The Long War Here At Home
Well – he actually got 5.5 years. Don't imagine for a moment that the last 5 years of his life spent in Guantanamo was a vacation. In our country we generally give convicted criminals credit for "time served," especially when the amount of time served is unusually excessive.
Well, it was certainly better than the life he would have been living not being bin Laden's driver anymore.
The upshot is that in five months, he'll be back out there and the people he helped to kill will still be dead.