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Obama to Issue Order Closing Gitmo During First Week in Office
FoxNews.com ^ | Monday, January 12, 2009

Posted on 01/12/2009 2:03:25 PM PST by Joiseydude

President-elect Barack Obama is preparing to issue an executive order his first week in office -- and perhaps his first day -- to close the U.S. military prison at Guantanamo Bay, according to two presidential transition team advisers.

It's unlikely the detention facility at the Navy base in Cuba will be closed anytime soon. In an interview last weekend, Obama said it would be "a challenge" to close it even within the first 100 days of his administration.

But the order, which one adviser said could be issued as early as Jan. 20, would start the process of deciding what to do with the estimated 250 Al Qaeda and Taliban suspects and potential witnesses who are being held there. Most have not been charged with a crime.

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TOPICS: Breaking News; Cuba; Government; News/Current Events; War on Terror
KEYWORDS: 0bama; appeasement; baraklewinsky; bhodod; bhogwot; cicobama; clubgitmo; detainees; gitmo; gwot; hussein; husseinobama; mohammed; muslims4obama; obama; obamasmuslimbuddies; terrorism; terrorists4obama; unfit; weakling; wot
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To: MHT
He's dealing with a situation where nearly every member of Congress has told him "Not In My District". I reminded our new Congresscritter that should he bring any of those pukes here and any of his little Islamofascist friends who financed his campaign try to spring them, it's definitely war.

Besides, to the degree these guys had anything to do with 9/11, Virginia has some state charges to send them to the gurney.

21 posted on 01/12/2009 2:22:33 PM PST by muawiyah
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To: avacado

Why not give them a job in congress, replace Frank, Pelosi and Ried whe are headed that way anyway.
SICK AND GETTING SICKER


22 posted on 01/12/2009 2:23:17 PM PST by ronnie raygun (Is it time for my medication, reality is starting to set in.)
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this just proves that my earlier opinion of him is correct.(even though it got me a nine day suspension)
23 posted on 01/12/2009 2:25:51 PM PST by razbinn (I pledge allegiance to the flag of the United States of America,and to the republic for which it ...)
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To: Joiseydude

Great soon all the terrorists will be living down in Florida.


24 posted on 01/12/2009 2:26:47 PM PST by Lady GOP
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To: Joiseydude

An empty gesture, devoid of any substance and done simply to appease his screwball supporters.

In other words, a fitting start to his administration.


25 posted on 01/12/2009 2:27:25 PM PST by reagan_fanatic ("You got that, camera guy?")
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To: Sybeck1
Didn’t McCain promise this?

Yes, he did. FReepers would be rationalizing this if he had won.

Glad that Obama won, people get to experience marxism first-hand.

26 posted on 01/12/2009 2:27:32 PM PST by Extremely Extreme Extremist
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To: Joiseydude

let them walk on out to Cuba.....see if they make it out of that heck-hole alive.


27 posted on 01/12/2009 2:31:24 PM PST by tioga (Let us unite in prayer for our country.)
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To: Extremely Extreme Extremist
FReepers would be rationalizing this if he had won.

NEVER!

28 posted on 01/12/2009 2:32:19 PM PST by Joiseydude (Let the Hero, born of woman, crush the serpent with his heel,)
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To: Lady GOP

Send them to live with Pelosi, Reid, the Liberal God and his shrew. They’ll make a great nest of rattlesnakes slithering together.


29 posted on 01/12/2009 2:34:23 PM PST by ExTexasRedhead
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To: MHT

Even worse, some of their homelands are resuing to allow them back. Then what?


30 posted on 01/12/2009 2:35:41 PM PST by 5thGenTexan
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To: LetsRok

He is only going to close the Terrorist Prisoner function, isn’t he? I don’t agree with closing it, but we do need the Main part of Gitmo for other Navy functions.


31 posted on 01/12/2009 2:46:13 PM PST by mortal19440
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To: Evil Slayer
"Why don’t they send them all to the White House at 1601 Pennsylvania Avenue? Then zero and his buddies can all “hang out” with each other.

Definitely give them all front seats at the inauguration!
Maybe some of them can be armed and be given some "security functions" to perform.

32 posted on 01/12/2009 2:49:58 PM PST by StormEye
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To: Extremely Extreme Extremist

Among the many reasons I could not vote for McCain either.


33 posted on 01/12/2009 2:52:39 PM PST by PBRSTREETGANG
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To: MHT

There are a lot of countries, including their homelands that don’t want them back. If we bring them here, we should spread them out and dump them in with the worst of the prisons general populations wearing their terrorist prisoner garb. See how long they last. Even our worst criminals have some standards. I heard the worst thing that a child molester can have happen to them is to get put in with the general population of prisoners.


34 posted on 01/12/2009 3:07:36 PM PST by OrioleFan (Republicans believe every day is the 4th of July, democrats believe every day is April 15)
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To: Joiseydude

How about some names for all of these advisors. I’m betting the list of advisors could be quite entertaining.


35 posted on 01/12/2009 3:14:28 PM PST by Thebaddog (WTF just happened to us?)
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To: Joiseydude

Euthanize and cremate the inmates and close the empty prison.


36 posted on 01/12/2009 3:17:12 PM PST by BuffaloJack
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To: Joiseydude

He is going to “close” it but:

“It’s unlikely the detention facility at the Navy base in Cuba will be closed anytime soon.”

Is this like those signs on the highways that say “road legally closed” that everyone ignores for decades?


37 posted on 01/12/2009 3:17:35 PM PST by Raycpa
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To: SoftwareEngineer
All campaign rhetoric aside, I thought this man at least loved his country.

The problem is not that he doesn't love his country.

The problem is that his country is not the USA.
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38 posted on 01/12/2009 3:36:52 PM PST by Iron Munro (Suppose you were an idiot. And suppose you were a member of Congress. But I repeat myself)
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To: Joiseydude

I think a lot of them will be sentenced and end up 50 miles south of here...Florence, Colorado. A holding cell for human scum.


39 posted on 01/12/2009 3:46:51 PM PST by wireplay
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To: Joiseydude
Between the tax increases during a recession that will be the final nail in the coffin of this nation's economy and the gutting of security measures put in place after 9/11 which have kept us safe for over seven years, and now closing Gitmo, they will have to get Barack Obama out of the country until the next election for his own safety. He'll have to run the country from a safehouse in Venezuela.

This guy is going to get a lot of innocent Americans slaughtered before he's done.

40 posted on 01/12/2009 3:47:48 PM PST by GiovannaNicoletta
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