SO IT'S JUST AN IMAGE THING...:

U.S. bases eyed as Gitmo alternative: Obama aims to move detainees (Sara A. Carter and Eli Lake, January 14, 2009, Washington Times)

The Pentagon is looking at several military bases in the U.S. as possible sites to hold terrorist suspects now at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, including Camp Pendleton in San Diego and Fort Leavenworth in Kansas.

Sen. Sam Brownback, Kansas Republican whose state hosts Fort Leavenworth, told The Washington Times that an internal Pentagon study named Fort Leavenworth among other locations.

Fort Leavenworth is the site of a military training program for foreign military officers, and Mr. Brownback said he feared the presence of Guantanamo prisoners would destroy the program.

"You are going to kill our international training program. A lot of Islamic countries come through Leavenworth. We had students from 90 different countries there," he said.

...and it'll harm our image among decent Muslims? Why not just rename Guantanamo? Call it Camp Labradoodle.

Posted by Orrin Judd at January 14, 2009 8:28 AM