At least the locals there can take their 13 terrorists out "fishing".
We'll be bankrolling the ones they settle here, at least until they decide to kill a bunch of us.
This guy must think his constituency is smoking their toribongs if he expects them to believe that the $200,000,000 check Obama is sending along with the terrorists had nothing to do with the decision.
I wonder how much of that cash is going to fall into his hands personally - or was his payoff on the side?
Mmmmmm..... Tasty western tourists! Terrorist’s favorites.
These Uighurs may have been in Gitmo, but they are not terrorists. They were cleared of that charge by the Bush Administration and the courts last year. They were picked up in Pakistan, and never near any “battlefield” of the Iraq or Afghan Wars. Musharraf and local Pakistani warlords had their own political reasons for wanting to get rid of these guys and came up with scary charges that had exactly ZERO evidence.
They’d be welcome by me to live in my neighborhood but the Obama Administration won’t let them in the US because of our own political considerations.
Sooner or later the US will probably admit that not all the people we held in Gitmo were terrorists, or terrorist sympathizers, or even a threat. Or is it impossible for us to admit we are humans and make mistakes?
In a way, this is President GW Bush’s fault. Once Obama won the election, President Bush could have solved this problem by executing all the Gitmo inmates before he left office.
Too bad we don’t have opposition party in this country. If we had, it would make a lot of noise. In effect, this is sad episode:
- Obama paid $200 for tiny island nation to take foreign militants/terrorists (should demand congressional investigations how much was paid)
- Obama did not consult UK (which is responsible for the foreign and security policy for Bermuda (or was it palau). This is “uni-lateral” policy and insulting and angering our allies
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