That is what a lot some IDIOTS on the Right like to call it. Any of us on the Left who express outrage over the goings on at Gitmo, get labled as soft on Terrorism, but take a look at two posts today that make Senator Durbin's comments look almost prophetic:

First from Dan Gillmor:

NY Times: E-mails raise question of fairness in Guantanamo trials. As
the Pentagon was making its final preparations for war crimes trials
against four detainees at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, two senior prosecutors
complained in confidential messages last year that the trial system had
been secretly arranged to improve the chance of conviction and to
deprive defendants of material that could prove their innocence.

Fairness at Guantanamo? The very concept is absurd, given what's been
going on there since the Bush administration started making up new
international law and ignoring our own Constitution.

Now two of the prosecutors themselves couldn't stomach what was going on. Their honor prevailed in dishonorable proceedings.

And Salon.Com has another compelling piece:

Don't anybody tell Dick Durbin
Do you ever feel like you don't recognize your country anymore?

Maybe the moment came for you when five Republican justices on the U.S. Supreme Court handed a presidential election to one of their own. Maybe it came when the president took America to war based on pretenses that turned out to be false. Maybe it came when you saw those photographs from Abu Ghraib, or when you learned that the man who helped orchestrate America's torture policies would become its attorney general. Maybe all of those things built up in your mind until your idea of America started to seem a long way off from the reality around you.

Maybe that hasn't happened to you yet. And maybe it will when you read about the plight of two young men from China who have spent the last three years locked up inside the U.S. detention facility at Guantánamo Bay.

Abu Bakker Qassim and A'del Abdu al-Hakim are Muslims who left their homes in China to flee religious persecution there. As their lawyer has told the Boston Globe, Qassim and al-Hakim met each other at a market in Kyrgystan right around the time of the attacks of Sept. 11. They decided to make their way together to Turkey, where they apparently planned to set up new lives for themselves and the families they hoped would follow. Instead, Qassim and al-Hakim were arrested by Pakistani police, who thought they might be al-Qaida members. The Pakistanis turned them over to the United States -- apparently in exchange for a $5,000-per-head bounty. And the United States shipped them off to Guantánamo Bay, where they have been held ever since.

Why? Well, for no reason at all, it turns out. In March of this year -- which is to say, three years after the United States took Qassim and al-Hakim into custody -- a U.S. Combatant Status Review Tribunal concluded that the two men were not enemy combatants but merely had been in the wrong place at the wrong time. In the America in our minds, that means that they were released immediately with the nation's apologies, with something approaching fair compensation and with a guarantee of safe passage back to wherever it is they wanted to go. But that's not what happened in the America in which we're actually living.

Although Qassim and al-Hakim were cleared in March, the United States didn't bother to share that fact with anyone outside Guantánamo. And having been denied contact with their lawyers or their family members, the men had no way to spread the word themselves. So for four more months, they sat in Guantánamo, cleared but not freed.

Hat Tip The End of the World.

Read both pieces to completion!

Doesn't sound much like a Hotel "club," to me.... A Hotel you can check out of... What the hell HAS happened to our country? What happened when we turn a blind eye to this type of fascism, or in the case of so many on the Right, out and out support it, in the name of a Secure America?

What happened to the America who would have rode the people responsible for this out of Washington on a Rail? This is NOT my America, and if it is one you support, perhaps you need to go back and read those documents like the Constitution, that the Administration seems only too eager to use as a Door Mat!