Want to know why we can’t have the left leading this country? Note this editorial in the Washington Post:

“CONGRESS IS once again poised to consider legislation to give those held as enemy combatants the right to challenge their detention in U.S. federal court. As a matter of law and conscience, lawmakers should act quickly to pass it.

It’s one of the sad and confounding legacies of the administration’s war on terrorism that the United States has imprisoned for years people who have had no real chance to challenge their imprisonment. This failure falls primarily on the shoulders of the Bush administration. From the earliest days after the terrorist strikes of Sept. 11, 2001, the administration resisted extending even a modicum of due process to those whose freedom it unilaterally stripped away. That was not only un-American but unwise. Rather than fortifying its position, the administration’s intransigence has been counterproductive and has led to reversals in the Supreme Court — reversals that may prove more significant than the modest concessions the administration could have made to fend off critics. The president’s own pick for attorney general, former New York federal judge Michael B. Mukasey, rapped the administration for denying legal representation even to Jose Padilla, a U.S. citizen.”

Administration allies in Congress also bear responsibility for failing to craft an alternative legal system that could have served the interests of national security while bestowing on detainees meaningful legal protections. The tribunals and commissions at Guantanamo Bay concocted for such purposes were laughable in their ineffectiveness and deplorably lacking in fundamental fairness. When federal courts began to shoot down the tribunals and commissions as legally insufficient, what did Congress do? It passed a law to strip judges of jurisdiction over these cases.”

Nowhere does our constitution give rights to those who would destroy our life and liberty. The writer of this so-called editorial (must be from one of the lefty blogs), makes assertions that are not factual nor even close to such. This stupid argument to grant habeas-corpus rights to alien terrorists needs quelched an it most likely will be.

Andy McCarthy wrote last year:

“First, Congress cannot ‚Äúsuspend‚Äù habeas corpus by denying it to people who have no right to it in the first place. The right against suspension of habeas corpus is found in the Constitution (art. I, 9). Constitutional rights belong only to Americans ‚Äî that is, according to the Supreme Court, U.S. citizens and those aliens who, by lawfully weaving themselves into the fabric of our society, have become part of our national community (which is to say, lawful permanent resident aliens). To the contrary, aliens with no immigration status who are captured and held outside the territorial jurisdiction of the United States, and whose only connection to our country is to wage a barbaric war against it, do not have any rights, much less ‚Äúbasic rights,‚Äù under our Constitution.”

Additionally terrorist have no “treaty right”. Even more the argument that they should have the right to challange their detention is based on inaccurate information as they already have that ability thought the Detainee Treatment Act, which requires that the military grant each detainee a Combatant Status Review Tribunal.

In essense this is nothing more than the left doing what it does best in the approach to terrorism - coddle and cuddle, which brought us nothing more than 9/11 in the first place.

I’ve spoken with both Senators and House Representatives from the GOP in the State of Florida and all have told me that while this is being pushed hard it’s simply not going to pass, and even if it did it’s a veto via the President.