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Joint Chiefs chairman: close Guantanamo
AP Via Yahoo! News ^ | Jan 13, 2008 | Robert Burns

Posted on 01/13/2008 3:31:02 PM PST by MichMash

GUANTANAMO BAY NAVAL BASE, Cuba - The chief of the U.S. military said Sunday he favors closing the prison here as soon as possible because he believes negative publicity worldwide about treatment of terrorist suspects has been "pretty damaging" to the image of the United States.

"I'd like to see it shut down," Adm. Mike Mullen said in an interview with three reporters who toured the detention center with him on his first visit since becoming chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff last October.

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TOPICS: Breaking News; Cuba; Government; News/Current Events; War on Terror
KEYWORDS: biasmeanslayoffs; bushhassers; gitmo; gramsci; guantanamo; gwot; jointchiefs; liberalmedia; mediabias; mediajihad; mediawar; mikemullen; military; quisling; spartansixdelta; surrender; trysellingthetruth; usmilitary
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To: MichMash

321 posted on 01/15/2008 1:33:09 AM PST by RasterMaster (Rudy McRomneyson = KENNEDY wing of the Republican Party)
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To: barryg
If they can offload them to another country, that would be okay. But where?

Well, the Navy isn't using Vieques, P.R. any more. :)

322 posted on 01/15/2008 5:08:59 AM PST by Does so (...against all enemies, DOMESTIC and foreign...)
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To: MichMash
Mike Mullen said:

he favors closing the prison here as soon as possible because he believes negative publicity worldwide about treatment of terrorist suspects has been "pretty damaging" to the image of the United States.

TRANSLATION:

We should close it because of the liberal media

I dont think we should grant the media any more power than they have already claimed for themselves. Let them fearmonger.

323 posted on 01/15/2008 5:55:11 AM PST by Halfmanhalfamazing (You can tell that the news is good coming out of Iraq because you read so little about it in The NYT)
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To: txroadkill

It might replace, “Don’t get stuck on stupid!”


324 posted on 01/15/2008 8:24:21 AM PST by PurpleMan
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To: MichMash
I wonder if General Pace would have said the same?

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325 posted on 01/15/2008 12:17:42 PM PST by La Enchiladita (Psalm 27)
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To: MichMash

It’s pretty bad when the Chairman of the JCS can’t be trusted to talk to the press competently. Fire this ass publicly (not that “quitting to spend more time with my family” crap like they did with Colon Bowel) and demote him to light colonel .


326 posted on 01/15/2008 3:05:14 PM PST by Excuse_My_Bellicosity (Oh, the huge manatee!!!)
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To: Gritty

Anyone with scrambled eggs is pretty much a douchebag. Now I know how Iranian boats got within 200 yards of our ships.


327 posted on 01/15/2008 8:37:18 PM PST by steve8714 (Build the fence, ship 'em out, legalize teen workers.)
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To: MichMash
Why do we care or should we care; what the rest of the world; much less our enemies 'think of us'. This is touchy-feeling Liberal crap.

Our real enemies will laugh at our 'weakness'. . .the rest who pretend to be our enemies; will do the same in public; but privately will be assured by our Will and independence. Meantime; they will talk the talk; until they need us. (And if this is not the case; does not matter.)

Am so sick of Libs wanting to be loved; and putting 'their face' on America.

328 posted on 01/15/2008 9:29:27 PM PST by cricket (Hucka-not)
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To: Tlaloc; All

“Bringing them to the US does not mean they will have any more rights than they do at Gitmo.”

Did you hear that everyone? Tlaloc is volunteering to keep all those prisoners who are at Gitmo on his/her property.


329 posted on 01/15/2008 10:33:17 PM PST by mjaneangels@aolcom
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To: MichMash

These Navy 4 stars are amazing.

They cozy up to China and they prime themselves for jobs in Democrat cabinets.

Go all the way back to William Crowe who sucked up to every little Clinton fantasy and got a job as Ambassador to England.

No wonder the Navy is in such trouble. These guys are looking out for themselves and don’t give a damn about the Navy, the sailors, their equipment, maybe even the United States.


330 posted on 01/16/2008 12:30:09 PM PST by oldbill
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To: steve8714

Most of the guys who make flag rank are worthless little bitches that belong on a business school faculty or in an agency that primps Hollywood celebrities and runs errands for them, not the military. There’s way too many of these clowns that have BS’d their way through their careers (and life).

Whenever the top brass talks about force-reduction (or whatever flavor-of-the-month euphemism they’re using this fiscal year), it’s always the lieutenants and junior enlisted that get ran off. The military is way too top-heavy. Let’s chop the number of job slots for the brass and put them in front of a heavy-handed review board where they have to justify their continued service. Make the emphasis on wartime performance and send the Nancy-boys home with a demotion and forced retirement. Same goes for the senior civilians in govt., I’m sick of this crap.


331 posted on 01/16/2008 5:36:56 PM PST by Excuse_My_Bellicosity (Oh, the huge manatee!!!)
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To: steve8714

The ship’s senior officers were probably too busy eating steak in the wardroom (while the junior guys eat crap off plastic trays that makes your high school cafeteria look like fine dining) or primping their hair in their staterooms.


332 posted on 01/16/2008 5:44:08 PM PST by Excuse_My_Bellicosity (Oh, the huge manatee!!!)
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To: HardStarboard
"It could bring the criminal-justice system to its knees!"

Well it certainly would bring liberals like Maureen Dowd and Helen Thomas to their knees, as they are people who care far more about pleasing terrorists than protecting our country. That's why Maureen Dowd's so eternally frustrated, she just hasn't found herself the right America-hating terrorist to satisfy......
333 posted on 01/17/2008 8:24:24 PM PST by Enchante (Democrat terror-fighting motto: "BLEAT - CHEAT - RETREAT - DEFEAT - REPEAT")
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To: Rennes Templar

One has to admit, this has been a PR victory for the the bleeding heart MSM and their European allies.

Exactly what I was thinking. I hate liberal leftests and their MSM.


334 posted on 01/18/2008 11:47:42 AM PST by Bitsy
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To: Tlaloc

WTF ????

Hey Doc, can I have some of whatever you gave him?


335 posted on 01/18/2008 7:23:36 PM PST by dfwddr (Duncan Hunter '08 -- the real thing.)
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To: MichMash
Or McCain or Huck. This is a bad idea whose time has not come. We do not need to take this bunch into our prison population and charge them with a felony, furnish a lawyer, etc.

vaudine

336 posted on 01/18/2008 7:29:09 PM PST by vaudine (RO)
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To: MichMash

If we still need it, f*** the press, and keep it. If we don’t, close it down and put the remaining inmates on a boat at sea or something.


337 posted on 01/19/2008 3:57:04 PM PST by dr_who_2
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