Louie Gohmert: “There is an issue we have been talking about on the Republican side for quite a bit, and I think some of my Democratic…”

“There is an issue we have been talking about on the Republican side for quite a bit, and I think some of my Democratic friends realize how serious an issue this is because they care about our military members. The President of the United States promised, ill-advisedly, before he was ever elected, that he was going to close the Guantanamo Bay facility that housed the worst of the worst terrorists wanting to kill Americans and destroy our way of life. Well, he found out right after he took office that you just can't do that because it is going to put American lives at risk. There is a reason they are being held there. And it violates no rules of law when it comes to war, because war is a little different. Since civilized society came along in the history of mankind, things improved for prisoners of war. Before there was a civilized society, when one group warred against another, they would either kill them or make them slaves. What occurred was pretty gruesome. In civilized history, when one group says, ``We are at war with this other group,'' then the other group either responds by defending themselves or they are overtaken by the evildoers--in this case, radical Islamists.…”