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“Obama ‘bears a lot of watching’ on nat’l security”
Chad Groening - OneNewsNow - 4/28/2009 7:00:00 AM
SNIPPET: “The grades were not so glowing, however, in a report card issued by Military Families United (MFU), which evaluated Obama and his defense team on Iraq, Afghanistan, Guantanamo Bay, veterans, defense policies, and military family issues.
Commander Kirk Lippold (USN-Ret.), the senior military fellow for MFU, says while Obama scored Bs on Iraq and Afghanistan, he received an F for his actions involving Guantanamo Bay.
“I think that the decision to close Guantanamo Bay by an arbitrary date with no plans in place, no policy established, and no idea about what you’re going to do with those detainees, clearly is nothing more than a political model,” he contends. “And our nation’s security cannot be driven by politics.”
Obama, according to Lippold, needs to be closely watched. “I would say that overall his performance has been average. And quite frankly, he bears a lot of watching,” he adds. “You have to, again, look at what he does — not what he eloquently says he’s going to do. Keep an eye on him because if you don’t, he will try to fly things under the radar and do things in the dark of night.”
Lippold says Obama received C grades in the areas of veterans and defense policy, but only a D on handling issues related to military families.”
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GOP to Obama: Show Us a Plan for Releasing Guantanamo Prisoners
FoxNews ^ | Wednesday, April 29, 2009 | Joseph Abrams
Posted on April 29, 2009 3:17:16 PM PDT by Joiseydude
Republican lawmakers are calling on the Obama administration to produce a plan for closing the Guantanamo Bay detention center as Attorney General Eric Holder struggles to find new homes in Europe for the prison’s detainees.
Guantanamo currently houses 240 detainees, about 60 identified by the Bush administration as being unable to be returned to their countries of origin because of fears they will be tortured or executed there.
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