these arms - these arms long to hold you - hold you again

I find myself in the untenable and uncomfortable position of defending Fred Thompson, who said that Osama bin Laden, quote, "ought to be caught and killed," but that "we've got due process to go through. I'm not suggesting those things (catching and killing) happen simultaneously."

I'm pretty sure he's right - that we do, in fact, have a process that we go through in such situations - but Thompson's catching flak for saying we're gonna do anything other than catch him, interrogate him, and decapitate him, boom boom boom.

http://firstread.msnbc.msn.com/archive/2007/09/11/354887.aspx

"*** Tennessee, We Have A Problem: Yesterday, we said Thompson hadn't yet made a flub like Wes Clark did in 2003 (when he couldn’t answer a reporter’s questions whether or not he would have voted for the 2002 Iraq war resolution -- a big no-no for someone campaigning as the anti-war general). But now, we're not so sure: Can a Republican presidential candidate really flub what they'd do with Osama, not once (symbolism) but twice (due process)?"

It's much like how Rudy is going to get creamed for saying illegal immigration is not and should not be a criminal matter.

Jiminy, I need a shower after that.