Cosmic Iguana - Voice of the Evil Doers

Chickens coming home to roost.

Case I: Busho Nostra crime family kingmaker Fat Tony Scalia on the 5-4 SCOTUS decision giving constitutional rights to Gitmo "detainees": calling it a

“self-invited incursion into military affairs” that would “almost certainly” kill Americans.... [*]

Well, Tony, La Busho Nostra had the choice in 2001 of defining these fellows as POWs so they could held them till the end of hostilities, but couldn't question them OR defining them as criminal suspects who could be questioned, but who had constitutional rights. In one of their first attempts to redefine reality, they chose none of the above, calling them "illegal combatants", allowing them to have all of the "benefits" and none of the "costs". Only problem was, it was something completely unconstitutional and unprecendented, and certain to be legally challenged. Now like it or lump it.

Meanwhile, Case II: back on the ground in Afghanistan:

Taliban militants staged a brazen bomb and rocket attack on the main prison in southern Afghanistan late Friday, blowing down the gate and helping hundreds of suspected insurgents flee, officials said. Many police officers were reported killed... Wali Karzai, the brother of President Hamid Karzai who is president of Kandahar's provincial council, said the prison held about 350 suspected Taliban fighters.

He said "all" the prisoners escaped, but also had no specific number. "There is no one left," he said...[*]

Well, that's more terrorists than are left at Guantanamo. Guess La Busho Nostra should have thought of that when they moved all the troops to Iraq.