Sen. Lindsey Graham (R-SC): Obama Should Treat Suspect As ‘Enemy Combatant’

[Bernardo de La Paz]

40. Republicans want him DEAD so he can't speak or be analyzed.

Republicans want him dead so he can't speak and his history won't be well analyzed. Declaring him an enemy combatant and stripping him of his citizenship rights will greatly encourage his death.

Then they will be more able to demonize foreigners, especially non-Western European foreigners and most especially all muslims. If he can talk, he might interrupt their narrative.

It allows them to invent all kinds of theories, especially theories about failures by the Obama administration.

Facts get in the way of the Republican agenda, which includes permanent war so that the military-industrial complex can get corporate welfare.

It is bad enough that the cops are circulating Suspect 1's morque photo illicitly by emails. That only encourages them to shoot to kill. The suspect(s) is (are) more useful alive than dead to the US public, but more useful dead than alive to the Republicans.