Posted on 02/06/2009 12:29:58 PM PST by library user
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Gary Swenchonis, a Texas resident whose son, Gary Jr., was killed in the Cole bombing, told FOX News he turned down an invitation from the White House to meet with Obama.
Swenchonis said he received the invitation Thursday, and that he did not care to travel from Texas to Washington on such short notice to hear the "bad news" that charges were withdrawn in the al-Nashiri case.
Swenchonis and his wife Deborah wrote a letter to Obama last week expressing their concerns about the halting of military trials at the Guantanamo Bay detention facility.
"President Obama, now I fear these sailors who died in the service of the United States will be abandoned again," they wrote. "It will be one more tragedy in a long list of tragedies in the Cole attack. ... Our fear is if the terrorists are tried here in our federal courts, they will go free."
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Good call. The man (man?) is a traitor.
Of course its ‘window dressing’.
Window dressing? Ya’ think?
According to Gibbs the families are pleased that now there will be justice for those who were murdered on the USS Cole.
My heart and prayers are with The Swenchonis family.
Barry has already set one record. Fastest collapse of any presidential administration in American history. THAT’S change you can believe in!
No need to worry folks. You are right. It IS window dressing. He has no respect for their sacrifice.
Obama plumbs news depths every day.
i’d say they are correct since the ‘meeting’ was held after the decision was made to drop the charges
“Gary Swenchonis, a Texas resident whose son, Gary Jr., was killed in the Cole bombing, told FOX News he turned down an invitation from the White House to meet with Obama”
My condolences to Mr. Swenchonis. His son is an American Hero! I hope he told the Kenyan where to stuff his invitation!
Katherine Herridge also reported on FOX earlier that Mr. Swenchonis told her that upon hearing the news that Hussein was dropping the charges against this terrorist, she cried all night, again grieving for the son she lost.
How anyone can defend this is beyond me.
Of course it’s window dressing. That a-hole had probably never even MET someone who served in the U.S. military until AFTER he was elected as a senator.
Uh...I’m sure Zero read his letter and is really agonizing over it. Zero knows everything. Zero doesn’t really care what Mr. Swenchonis thinks. I feel badly that Mr. Swenchonis expended his own honorable time writing to such a POS as Zero. Zero ain’t worth the Mr. Swenchonis’s ink.
The List
5 exectutive ordersFirst week in office
Insults China
First interview, with foreign news outlet- for Muslims
Talks about his muslim family
Picks fight with Limbaugh
Won't take question from press
Allows to FDA approve first human embryonic stem cell safety trial (3 days after Pres. Bush left) Excludes any compromise with GOP on Stimulus bill Massive pork in stimulus bill
5% of stimulus bill to actually go to infrastructure
Offers to negotiate directly with Iran
Puts 5 millionairs on his cabinet
Makes a tax cheat the Sec. of the Treasury
Bombs Pakistan
Argues with the Pope on abortion
Signed the Schip bill, that gives health care to illegals Won't allow a video of his retaking of the oath of office Ordered the closure of Gitmo
Halts all pending Bush regulations
Second week:
Appoints extremist Samantha Powers to head foreign policy team
Secret nuke talks with Iran/Syria
Appoints tax cheat for commerce secretary
Illegal alien aunt, granted a "stay" of deportation Daschle the tax cheat/lobbiest proposed as secretary for health care
Nancy Killefer for candidacy to be the first chief performance officer for federal government fails to pay household help taxes ...withdrawn
12 lobbyists (or more) appointed to high gov't positions within the first 14 days of his administration (up to 17 by another source)
Administration demands defense cuts of 10% during wartime Obama envoy George Mitchell tells Palistinians " they believe can extract from Israel concessions reaching "much further" than during talks held under the previous administration
The European Union warns the US yesterday against plunging the world into depression by adopting Obama's “Buy American” policy, intensifying fears of a trade war Obama immediately backs down from policy
After stating her priority would be "mum-in-chief", Michelle Obama goes on listening tour and then makes political speeches with her husband not yet one month in office...
George Mitchell resigns from a Saudi Lobbying firm, two weeks into his appointment as "Special Middle East Envoy" Obama administration says it will cancel 77 drilling leases near Utah parks
Ogden, President Obama's pick for deputy attorney general, used to represent Playboy
Steven Chu, Obama's secretary of energy (not a climatologist) states: California's farms and vineyards could vanish by the end of the century, and its major cities could be in jeopardy, if Americans do not act to slow the advance of global warming
Obama names “most fined” Washington State bureaucrat Ron Simms to the #2 position in HUD
Hilda Solis, Obama's pick for labor secretary's husband is found to be a tax cheat just before the confirmation vote
Directed military prosecutors to revoked charges pending against mastermind of USS Cole bombing: Al Nashiri
Imagine if Bush had done this?
CNN, MSNBC, NBC, ABC, PBS, CBS, NY Times, WashPost would start out their news with “Bush Exploits Families of Murdered Sailors”.
“My condolences to Mr. Swenchonis. His son is an American Hero! I hope he told the Kenyan where to stuff his invitation!”
Thank you Gary Jr! And to his family and all the others. Someday, upon the Lord’s return, there will be justice.
It may not be as well known or as oppulent as the White House, but Mr. Swenchonis is welcome at MY house ANY time. I have not forgotten the servcie his son provided to our country.
Window dressing?....more like propaganda!
I hope you keep that growing list, but I’m afraid in about six months you will need a 20 terabyte server.
Very disingenuous to say the least! He can’t stand the military!
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