Posted on 09/25/2006 7:57:13 AM PDT by MNJohnnie
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/news/1702290/posts?page=1
The Good Life At Gitmo
ON the military plane back from America's most fa mous terrorist holding pen, the in-flight film was "V for Vendetta," a screed that tries to justify terrorism. It was a fitting end to a surreal, military-sponsored trip.
The Pentagon seemed to be hoping to disarm its critics by showing them how well it cares for captured terrorists. The trip was more alarming than disarming. I spent several hours with Rear Adm. Harry B. Harris Jr., who heads the joint task force that houses and interrogates the detainees. (The military isn't allowed to call them "prisoners.")
Harris, a distinguished Navy veteran who was born in Japan and educated at Annapolis and Harvard, is a serious man trying to do a politically impossible job. I spoke with him at length, and with a dozen other officers and guards, and visited three different detention blocks.
The high-minded critics who complain about torture are wrong. We are far too soft on these guys - and, as a result, aren't getting the valuable intelligence we need to save American lives.
The politically correct regulations are unbelievable. Detainees are entitled to a full eight hours sleep and can't be woken up for interrogations. They enjoy three meals and five prayers per day, without interruption. They are entitled to a minimum of two hours of outdoor recreation per day.
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Hey happy 21! :) You're almost an adult now. ;) Heheheheh. :)
Thank You
http://www.worldnetdaily.com/news/article.asp?ARTICLE_ID=37805
You claimed March 24, 2004, that the Clinton administration had "no higher priority" than destroying the terrorism, whereas the Bush administration made it "an important issue, but not an urgent one." Yet you told Angle and the reporters in the August 2002 interview that the Clinton administration "never had a plan" for dealing effectively and forthrightly with terrorism.
You claim in your just released book, that National Security Adviser Condoleezza Rice's facial expression led you to believe she had never heard of al-Qaida, during a briefing in 2001. Yet an audio clip aired by Sean Hannity (Fox News Channel, March 24, 2004) proves unequivocally that Rice had mentioned OBL and al-Qaida as threats a full year before said briefing took place.
So, Mr. Clarke, the question that begs an answer is, were you lying before or are you lying now?
Being from Iowa, it is state unwritten law that you are either a Bears or Vikings fan. I was a Bears fan until they uncerimoniously dumped Ditka. After that, they became nothing to me. ANd, not by coincidence, I became a Saints fan when they got Ditka.
If he ever chooses to coach again, I will switch to whatever team he goes with.
What's a birthday without being picked at for your age? ;) I wish I was 21 again. Boy would I do some things different. Mercy. :)
Thank You very much
There's some hope. My younger sister-in-law, who is a born-and-raised liberal, has gradually soured on the Dems, and finally left the party and registered as an independent. She's not a conservative yet, but she's strongly pro-Israel and anti-illegal-immigration, so she's making progress.
Remember this re: Somalia?
http://www.netnomad.com/sloyan4.html
I think he tends to do that for the people who aren't on the net at the time.
Damn, I guess BJ's crew never got the memo...
Sounds pretty hopeful for your sister-in-law, to me! If she was a big lib, she's come far already.
That picture is obviously a photoshop. BJ would never show modesty.
btt
Does she realize she is not a lib anymore?
Wasn't it BJ who pulled out troops the day after???
You can't even find those signs around in the State much anymore. Around Hope, the slum where he was born, that's about the only place in Arkansas that has signs that mention him. It's pretty funny. In all the driving I've done in Arkansas around Little Rock, Fort Smith, Texarkana, Hot Springs, Clarksville, Russlefille, and most points in between, Hope is the only place my wife and I have noticed signs mentioning Clinton. I make a rude gesture whenever I do see them and it makes me feel quite satisfied inside, and it's rare I get to make the gesture. :)
http://www.newsmax.com/archives/ic/2004/3/22/223420.shtml
Ijaz: Clarke Blocked bin Laden Extradition
Clinton administration diplomatic troubleshooter Mansoor Ijaz charged Monday that one-time White House terrorism czar Richard Clarke blocked efforts to gather intelligence on al Qaeda and torpedoed a deal to have Osama bin Laden extradited from Afghanistan in the years before the 9/11 attacks.
"I was personally asked to brief Condoleezza Rice's deputy National Security Advisor Stephen Hadley on exactly what had gone wrong in the previous efforts to get bin Laden out of the Sudan, to get the terrorism data out of the Sudan, which I negotiated the offer for," Ijaz told Fox News Channel's "Fox & Friends."
He said he also personally negotiated an deal "to get bin Laden out of Afghanistan in the spring and summer of 2000, using at Abu Dhabi Royal Family as a proxy to get him out on an extradition offer."
But Ijaz told Fox:
"In each case of things that were involved in the Clinton administration, Richard Clarke himself stepped in and blocked the efforts that were being made over and over and over again."
The unofficial diplomat said that if Clarke hadn't put up roadblocks to obtaining Sudanese intelligence, the bombing of two U.S. embassies in East Africa in 1998 might have been prevented.
He called Clarke's account denying offers of Sudanese cooperation "absolutely disingenuous; it comes very close to flat-out lying."
After months of denials from his former aides, ex-President Clinton finally admitted that he personally turned down the offer by Sudan to arrest bin Laden.
"We'd been hearing that the Sudanese wanted America to start dealing with them again," Clinton told a New York business group in February 2002.
"They released him. At the time, 1996, he had committed no crime against America so I did not bring him here because we had no basis on which to hold him, though we knew he wanted to commit crimes against America.
"So I pleaded with the Saudis to take him, 'cause they could have. But they thought it was a hot potato and they didn't and that's how he wound up in Afghanistan."
In his book, "Against All Enemies," Clarke called reports that Clinton had turned down the Sudanese offer "a fable."
Yes, as far as I know Mark is back tonight.
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