Posted on 11/21/2014 9:32:15 AM PST by don-o
President Obama has opened a new front in his hard line against the incoming Republican Congress by releasing more detainees from Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, against lawmakers' objections.
The Pentagon announced Thursday that four al Qaeda fighters from Yemen, including a senior figure who facilitated travel to Afghanistan for Arab extremists, and a Tunisian extremist would be transferred to Slovakia and Georgia.
The transfers leave 143 detainees at Guantanamo, which Obama has vowed to close. Republican lawmakers, who have been pressing the administration to stop releasing detainees amid reports that some former prisoners had joined the Islamic State of Iraq and Syria, were furious.
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Can't you just compromise, and go half way? How about we just release the heads... and the remainder stays at Guantanamo?
It’s not like there was no warning of a commie plant to take down the country from within.
Idiots and zombies have a say in this country unfortunately.
I can go with that. The heads can go but their asses still belong to the US.
LOL! I like the way you think.
The immigration thing is no help to the illegals. But it did piss everyone else off badly. Everyone.
Blacks didn’t vote last election. Maybe blacks can’t pull the lever for an R yet - but sure enough they’re choosing to not vote for D.
Hispanics went for R this last election more than any other in Ga and Texas anyway.
Nobody likes this except the people who were tricked into thinking this would help them in a big way. It won’t.
He’s simply imploding. I am enjoying his destruction. Steady as she goes - we will overcome his sorry ass.
Back at ya Bro!
Obama is going to flip us off every day for the next 2 years, or until we have the courage to:
Impeach. Remove from office. Arrest. Convict. Imprison for life.
I think Obama is going to run out of Crazy things to do in the next 2 years
It's clear where this is going.
Petulant child will produce one provocation after another -- poking a stick into the GOP's eye.
He's trying to produce an over-reaction.
Amazing. He’s really on a rampage.
-— Well, they wouldn’t have been there to release if they’d been hanged by the neck by now. -—
This is one of the most overlooked arguments against life sentences for capital offenses: regime change.
As Rush noted this morning, obama will do this again and again — all the while watching the public reaction as he has no respect — no respect at all — for the other branches of government ... Democrat or GOPE.
“This is one of the most overlooked arguments against life sentences for capital offenses: regime change.”
I don’t understand your point. My point was that they should have been tried and convicted by now, not just hanging about waiting to be released.
Part 1 - Grant amnesty to tens of millions illegal mexicans
Part 2 - Pull the GOP base out from under them when Republicans fail to do anything effectively about his lawlessness because they fear being called names.
Part 3 - Coming soon ....
That was vague. My point was that life sentences can be commuted by future regimes or revolutionary movements. It’s something commonplace in the rest of the world. It’s something Americans are beginning to understand.
Yeah, thats what I was wondering too. If this is now a catch and release program, why not just dump them back into Afghanistan?
Obama has switched sides in the war on terror.
I disagree. Clown Prince nobama hasn’t “switched sides”. Merely, it is just that he is more brazen in his continuing support for America’s enemies. Traitor.
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