It’s typical coming from Congressional Democrats. They don’t want the world’s worst terrorists held in detention centers at Gitmo, but don’t dare move said terrorists to their backyard. That might harm their re-election chances, you see.

Lexington, Missouri — House Armed Services Committee Chairman Ike Skelton (D-MO) sent a letter to Defense Secretary Robert Gates expressing serious concerns regarding the consideration of Fort Leavenworth, Kansas, as a potential site for detainees transferred from Guantanamo Bay, Cuba.

Skelton, a long-time advocate for Professional Military Education, raised concerns that a number of Muslim countries would stop sending students to the Command and General Staff College at Fort Leavenworth if Guantanamo detainees were transferred there. Skelton also noted that the United States Code precludes the proximate detention of American and foreign individuals, so any plan to transfer detainees to Fort Leavenworth would require additional spending on military construction and enhanced security to comply with the law.

What will happen when Barack Obama does end up moving Gitmo detainees to American soil? Considering that we won’t even get his task force report until the detention center has been ordered closed, chances are that he will. I’ll be interested to see if Congressional Democrats will stand up to the administration or they’ll back down and make excuses.