Is the President caving to Gitmo critics?

In what appears to be capitulation to critics, President Bush said he would like to close the military detention center known as Gitmo:

"Of course Guantanamo is a delicate issue for people. I would like to close the camp and put the prisoners on trial," Bush said in comments to German television to be broadcast Sunday night. The interview was recorded last week.

Human-rights groups have accused the United States of mistreating Guantanamo prisoners through cruel interrogation methods, a charge denied by the U.S. government.

They also criticize the indefinite detention of suspects captured since the military prison was opened in 2002 at the U.S. naval base in Cuba, as part of the Bush administration's war on terrorism.

First of all, it's not "the Bush administration's war on terrorism," it's America's war on terrorism! Interesting, isn't it, how the media likes to separate itself from the rest of the country, but I digress!

If the President is serious about closing Gitmo, it's not going to endear him to the conservative base who, almost daily, see the republican party moving further to the left by caving to criticism.
At a time when the President and republican Congressional leadership should be on constant offense against the disunified and whacked out democrats, who are totally bereft of ideas, the majority party isn't even doing a good job playing defense. They are rapidly becoming the party of wimps, giving way to leftist accusations and demands.

Why isn't anyone standing up against the so-called "human rights" groups who regularly give Third World thugocracies and the United Nations a pass for habitual human rights abuse?

The reason is fear of criticism from the left. Fear of being labeled insensitive and uncaring. Fear of saying that a pair of panties on some terrorist's head doesn't compare to decapitation with a dull knife or child prostitution rings in Africa by UN piecekeepers, er, peacekeepers. Where's the outcry against the REAL culprits of torture and abuse?

There is no sense of proportion or priority. It's always the United States who's at fault, never thieving dictators. Where are the leaders of this country who have to recognize this dichotomy?

President Bush went to the Whitehouse 6 years ago with a "new tone" making nice with his political enemies. It has never worked for him. The policy of appeasement and accommodation is a failed policy whenever it's implemented and if the President and Congressional republicans don't start standing up against the left and leftist organizations soon, they're going to have no hope of holding on to their majority come November.

If that happens, Katy bar the door, because the impeachment juggernaut will be unleashed! Can you say, Speaker Pelosi?