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Obama to Issue Order Closing Gitmo During First Week in Office
FoxNews.com ^ | Monday, January 12, 2009

Posted on 01/12/2009 2:03:25 PM PST by Joiseydude

President-elect Barack Obama is preparing to issue an executive order his first week in office -- and perhaps his first day -- to close the U.S. military prison at Guantanamo Bay, according to two presidential transition team advisers.

It's unlikely the detention facility at the Navy base in Cuba will be closed anytime soon. In an interview last weekend, Obama said it would be "a challenge" to close it even within the first 100 days of his administration.

But the order, which one adviser said could be issued as early as Jan. 20, would start the process of deciding what to do with the estimated 250 Al Qaeda and Taliban suspects and potential witnesses who are being held there. Most have not been charged with a crime.

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TOPICS: Breaking News; Cuba; Government; News/Current Events; War on Terror
KEYWORDS: 0bama; appeasement; baraklewinsky; bhodod; bhogwot; cicobama; clubgitmo; detainees; gitmo; gwot; hussein; husseinobama; mohammed; muslims4obama; obama; obamasmuslimbuddies; terrorism; terrorists4obama; unfit; weakling; wot
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1 posted on 01/12/2009 2:03:26 PM PST by Joiseydude
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To: Joiseydude

A president so weak as to appease Code Pink is not a good thing!


2 posted on 01/12/2009 2:05:48 PM PST by avacado
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To: Joiseydude

Next up: arrest any real life Jack Bauer types that are out there.


3 posted on 01/12/2009 2:06:11 PM PST by Chet 99
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To: Joiseydude

Barack Hussein’s first act as President will be to order a surrender of GITMO to the Fidel Castro and communist Cuba. What a legacy he is starting.


4 posted on 01/12/2009 2:06:47 PM PST by LetsRok
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To: Joiseydude

Site of the future "Transition Home for Reformed Musllim Terrorists" has a nice side yard to stretch legs, exercise, build "toys", and only a short drive for "sight-seeing".

5 posted on 01/12/2009 2:07:57 PM PST by theDentist (Qwerty ergo typo : I type, therefore I misspelll)
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To: Joiseydude

None Dare Call It Treason......


6 posted on 01/12/2009 2:09:24 PM PST by MrLee (Sha'alu Shalom Yerushalyim!! God bless Eretz Israel.)
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To: Joiseydude

Big Mistake—Where’s he going to send the prisoners? Back to their homelands so they can terrorize again, take revenge on those who might have turned them in or get on the bandwagon for the next 9-11? Where’s is he going to house the next round of possible terrorists—city jails? Announcement of closure is not the most important part—what’s the plan, bro?


7 posted on 01/12/2009 2:10:17 PM PST by MHT
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To: Joiseydude

Why don’t they send them all to the White House at 1601 Pennsylvania Avenue? Then zero and his buddies can all “hang out” with each other.


8 posted on 01/12/2009 2:11:15 PM PST by Evil Slayer (Onward, Christian soldiers, marching as to war)
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To: Joiseydude

They should send all the detainees to K Street in DC to join the homeless - if they act fast they could give them special seats of honor near the Capital steps. As it is I imagine they’ll cut them loose with airfare to Santa Monica, California. Free shelters and food with plenty of tourists to rob and kill...


9 posted on 01/12/2009 2:11:24 PM PST by Republicus2001
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To: Chet 99

I hope there won’t be a huge exodus from intel and military services but I wouldn’t be surprised if there is one. Who would want to work under the libscum like Obambi and the AG nominee Holder, people who will throw you to the Code Pink wolves at any moment? I hope we can keep enough good people out of their sense of patriotism but why should they risk their entire future for the libscum administration? It’s enough to fight America’s enemies without worrying about the stab in the back from leftists within.


10 posted on 01/12/2009 2:11:56 PM PST by Enchante (Bernie Madoff Learned His Ponzi-Investment Strategy from our Social Security System!!)
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To: Joiseydude

Where are they going to go? Suggestion, just send them to Chicago, a few more thugs there will not be noticed.


11 posted on 01/12/2009 2:12:43 PM PST by TruthWillWin
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Dangit!!!!

Just when I thought Bam would possibly be Center Left on ATLEAST the War on Terrorism, the guy proves that he is a rabid communist.

This is VERY dissapointing and a very bad sign of things to come.


12 posted on 01/12/2009 2:13:26 PM PST by SoftwareEngineer
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To: Joiseydude
Meanwhile, from a week ago...

Kansas senators don't want Gitmo detainees

Oh, Barry....

13 posted on 01/12/2009 2:14:42 PM PST by mewzilla (In politics the middle way is none at all. John Adams)
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To: Republicus2001

They should invite all the detainees to attend the inauguration of the Obamanation, since the terrorist scumbags should know for whom they are going to be freed and/or coddled more now.

It would be great on national TV..... “look, there are the Gitmo detainees waving at their hero Obamam..... oh, wait, what is that, they’re about to kill anyone in sight now, why, don’t they feel any gratitude toward their liberal saviors?”


14 posted on 01/12/2009 2:14:50 PM PST by Enchante (Bernie Madoff Learned His Ponzi-Investment Strategy from our Social Security System!!)
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To: Joiseydude

Start the list of “Obama’s fault” blunders. Wussie is as Wussie does. Obama is going to be the weakest “president” in US history. We are all in danger with this pansy in office. That’s stating the obvious, but still, come on, who on earth is going to fear the USA anymore and therefore show some restraint in harming us? We are all sitting ducks. Any wacko nation will not hesitate to attack the US or our allies with Zero in charge, especially the nations like Iran who have twisted muslim leaders who WELCOME the end of the world.


15 posted on 01/12/2009 2:15:06 PM PST by TheConservativeParty ("A ship in harbor is safe, but that is not why the ship was built." by The First Gal of AK)
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To: SoftwareEngineer

Like you REALLY had hope? The guy is SO evil even Satan doesn’t want to have anything to do with him.


16 posted on 01/12/2009 2:15:18 PM PST by Evil Slayer (Onward, Christian soldiers, marching as to war)
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To: Joiseydude

If true, this will almost certainly lead to attacks on US vital interests and could mark the beginning of the “Bush was right” movement against radical islamic terrorists. Next up, halting wiretaps on foreign radicals.

God help us.


17 posted on 01/12/2009 2:16:49 PM PST by Oldeconomybuyer (The democRATS are near the tipping point.)
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To: Joiseydude

Too bad the solution for emptying Gitmo won’t involve a few cases of ammo and a backhoe.


18 posted on 01/12/2009 2:17:51 PM PST by MediaMole
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To: Evil Slayer
Like you REALLY had hope? The guy is SO evil even Satan doesn’t want to have anything to do with him.

Yes. I truly did think that ATLEAST on National Defense, he would be atleast Center LEFT (never mind Center Right!).

All campaign rhetoric aside, I thought this man atleast loved his country. But I guess not. This is devastating. I never thought he would actually do it.
19 posted on 01/12/2009 2:19:24 PM PST by SoftwareEngineer
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To: Joiseydude

Didn’t McCain promise this?


20 posted on 01/12/2009 2:19:55 PM PST by Sybeck1 (Million Minuteman March (Spring 2009))
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