Obama and his administration are considering a plea bargain that would release a Guantanamo prisoner after eight more years has gotten on the fightin’ side of a key witness against him: a former Army sergeant who was partially blinded and lost a friend in the firefight that led to the capture of the al-Qaida Terrorist.

Layne Morris said Friday that Canadian-born Omar Khadr should get at least 20 years in prison, if not much longer.

According to Morris:

They ought to lock him up until he’s no longer a threat, and if that’s for the rest of his life, so be it.

Khadr, who was 15 when he was captured following the firefight in Afghanistan in 2002, was originally scheduled to go on trial Monday at Gitmo.  The charges against him include murder for throwing a grenade that killed Army Sgt. 1st Class Christopher Speer, a special forces medic from Albuquerque, New Mexico. If convicted, he faces a maximum life sentence.

The trial began in August but was put on hold when Khadr’s defense lawyer fell ill and collapsed in the courtroom.

With plea talks going on, a military judge postponed the resumption of the trial, the first at Guantanamo under President Barack Hussein Obama (peace be unto him). The war crimes tribunal is scheduled to reconvene Oct. 25.  But that could turn into a sentencing hearing if an agreement is reached.

Khadr’s lawyers and U.S. officials have refused to release details about any proposed agreement.  However, the Toronto Star reported that a proposal already approved by the military would impose a sentence of less than 10 years, on top of the time he has already been in custody. Postmedia News, another Canadian outlet, reported that he would get eight, with one more in Guantanamo and the rest in his native country.  (Say what?)  Both cited anonymous sources.

There have been plea talks before, but Khadr himself has resisted, saying it would excuse the harsh treatment he endured during captivity. He also denies throwing the grenade that killed Speer.

Yeh, kid.  Just because they saw you throwing it doesn’t mean you did it.  Doesn’t the Koran tell you that it’s okay to lie to the Infidels?

This case is turning into a big problem for the administration because of his age and the fact that his father, who was killed in 2003, had close ties to senior al-Qaida leaders. His lawyers and human rights groups say Khadr was a child soldier, essentially brainwashed by his family, who should be sent home and rehabilitated.

Yeah, let’s reward this hateful heathen.  Brilliant.

But unlike most war crimes cases at Guantanamo, his involves specific American victims.

Morris, now retired from the Army and living in a suburb of Salt Lake City, Utah, is scheduled to travel to Guantanamo to testify as a witness. He said he appreciates the challenge that prosecutors face with the case but nevertheless hopes for a longer sentence:

Knowing the facts of the case, I would think your average American would be disappointed that somebody who had demonstrated the capacity and the willingness to kill American soldiers would get a mere eight years.  That seems short to me.

Morris is no longer able to see through his right eye because of this precious child’s participation in the assault on the militant stronghold in which Speer was killed.  He said he doesn’t seek a longer sentence out of vengeance but for the sake of his comrade’s family and because he believes Khadr, now 24, remains a danger to the U.S. It wouldn’t matter to him whether Khadr serves prison time in Guantanamo, Canada or somewhere in the U.S.

Preach, brother, preach.

He should get 20 years and then be evaluated to see if he is still a security threat.  And if he is, then he can do another 20 years. And if he has somehow seen the error of his ways, and if someone wants to take a chance with him somewhere in Canada, I would be OK with it.

In a related story:

As dozens of soldiers lay dead or bleeding in a Fort Hood processing center last year, a gunman went outside and continued firing as others ran to nearby buildings, hid behind cars or carried wounded comrades to safety, witnesses told a military court Friday.

Eyewitness accounts of this Terrorist attack came Friday during an Article 32 hearing that will determine whether Maj. Nidal Hasan should stand trial in the Nov. 5 shootings on the Texas Army post. The 40-year-old American-born Muslim has been charged with 13 counts of premeditated murder and 32 counts of attempted premeditated murder. The hearing is to resume Monday.

Sgt. Lamar Nixon testified that he recognized Hasan as the gunman. Nixon, who worked in the building where soldiers must get vaccines and other routine medical tests before deployment, said Hasan had been there two or three times, including the morning of Nov. 5. Hasan had been at the center earlier to get vaccines because he was to be deployed the following month, but Hasan ignored him when Nixon greeted him, the soldier testified.

Nixon said he remembered Hasan because of “his stature and just how he composed himself — stoic.” The next time Nixon saw Hasan, it was after lunch when the psychiatrist stood from behind a front counter and began shooting after yelling “Allahu Akbar!” — “God is great!” in Arabic, Nixon testified.

Also Friday, under cross examination, Pfc. Lance Aviles said he used his cell phone to record the mass murder inside the processing center but was ordered by an officer to delete both videos later the same day. Aviles was not asked if he knew why the officer ordered the videos destroyed.

It’s unclear exactly what the footage showed, although it could have been used as evidence in the case.  However, there is no doubt that the orders to destroy that evidence came from a much higher source than Pvt. Aviles immediate superior.

Prosecutors have not said whether they’ll seek the death penalty if the case goes to trial.

Hasan, who was paralyzed after Fort Hood police shot him that day, remains jailed in the Bell County Jail, which houses suspects for nearby Fort Hood. The military justice system does not have bail for defendants.

The Obama administration decided a long time ago that zealously protecting the rights of bloodthirsty Islamic barbarians seeking to murder Americans somehow shows the world how noble and intelligent they are, thereby laying the groundwork upon which they might someday negotiate away America’s sovereignty.   However, just like the phony outrage of those two failed comediennes at Bill O’Reilly’s comments Thursday morning on The View, Americans see right through it.  And we will express our feelings very clearly on November 2nd.