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[President]Bush calls Coast Guardsman at Guantanamo to thank him
McClatchy Newspapers ^ | December 26, 2008 | Carol Rosenberg and David Lightman

Posted on 12/26/2008 2:54:34 PM PST by 2ndDivisionVet

Edited on 12/26/2008 3:14:07 PM PST by Admin Moderator. [history]

President-elect Barack Obama has vowed to close it. The international community has condemned it.

On Christmas Eve, however, when it came time for him to wish some American service members a Merry Christmas for his last time in office, President George W. Bush rang up a North Carolina man who's assigned to the military prison camp at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba.


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TOPICS: Cuba; Extended News; Foreign Affairs; Government; US: North Carolina; War on Terror
KEYWORDS: agenda; bho2008; bush; christmas; coastguard; coasties; gitmo; gratefulnation; guantanamo; jihad; merrychristmas; obama; uscg; wot
Merry Christmas to all FReepers, especially my fellow veterans -- thank you for your service, no matter when or where it was.
1 posted on 12/26/2008 2:54:35 PM PST by 2ndDivisionVet
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

Merry Christmas to you 2ndDivisionVet.


2 posted on 12/26/2008 2:58:02 PM PST by unkus
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To: unkus
Geronimo!!
3 posted on 12/26/2008 3:01:33 PM PST by 2ndDivisionVet (Barack Obama: In Error and arrogant -- he's errogant!)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

Geronimo!!


A big thanks!!!


5 posted on 12/26/2008 3:09:01 PM PST by unkus
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

Mr. President. What no calls to Boarder Guards?


6 posted on 12/26/2008 3:11:51 PM PST by 70th Division (I love my country but fear my government!)
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To: puffer

I wonder what crimes against humanity those jailbirds committed. Other than voting for a Constitutionally ineligible native born Kenyan named B. HUSSEIN Obama that is.


7 posted on 12/26/2008 3:15:50 PM PST by epow (He came to die on a cross in agony and blood, yet He created the hill on which it stood.)
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To: 70th Division

You think he should call convicted felons over active-duty service members? To wish them Merry Christmas?


8 posted on 12/26/2008 3:16:01 PM PST by 1rudeboy
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To: 1rudeboy

No but a pardon would be nice. And maybe a call to the boarder agents who are out gunned at the boarder.


9 posted on 12/26/2008 4:42:41 PM PST by 70th Division (I love my country but fear my government!)
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To: 70th Division
No but a pardon would be nice

Even nicer, a reversal of the court verdict and an admission by the government that the charges against those men were trumped up and full of lies. Adding full back pay for the lost years plus restoration to their former jobs at the current pay rate and benefit package would make it even nicer.

The prosecution and conviction of those two men for simply doing their highly dangerous jobs is the most outrageous miscarriage of justice in the US that I can remember, and I can remember the time long before most people now alive were born.

10 posted on 12/26/2008 10:36:54 PM PST by epow (He came to die on a cross in agony and blood, yet He created the hill on which it stood.)
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To: epow

AMEN! Thanks


11 posted on 12/27/2008 4:19:37 AM PST by 70th Division (I love my country but fear my government!)
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