Posted on 05/07/2009 10:20:14 AM PDT by Dubya-M-DeesWent2SyriaStupid!
Obama Budget Seeks $100 Million To Close Guantanamo Detention Facility
WASHINGTON -(Dow Jones)- U.S. President Barack Obama's budget requests $100 million to help close the Guantanamo military detention facility, after House Democrats stripped out a similar request from a bill to pay for the wars in Afghanistan and Iraq through the rest of fiscal 2009.
The president had included a request of $80 million to pay for the closing the prison in an $83.4 billion war funding bill submitted to Congress last month.
The revised $100 million request was included in Obama's $3.6 trillion budget for fiscal 2010, details of which were released Thursday.
The request is small compared to the overall cost to pay for the wars or the $ 3.6 trillion budget. Yet the initial request provoked a strong reaction on Capitol Hill by lawmakers who are uncomfortable with the idea of bringing Guantanamo detainees onto American soil
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I had an idea yesterday. Put them into zoos, all around the country. Just throw food into their cages once a day. Hose them off once a month.
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Food must be pork, every single meal.
Another thing wrong with government spending.
Ok, the pork as a meal part sells me.
Because Odumba would need to build a new facility or retrofit a military base somewhere to move them too.
I’m half suspicious that the administration encouraged the stripping of the original request behind the scenes and this new request is just more political theater for the foaming at the mouth left because the WH and the smarter dems realize that closing Gitmo is permanent political death if even one former detainee creates a disturbance of any kind on US soil.
If an unemployed Ughar commits armed robbery or gets drunk and shoots up his apartment the proverbial you know what will hit the fan and spray the democrat party with excrement.
I do not think Obama cares about the demokrats political future.
No, but he cares about his and he doesn’t want to get stuck with a “worse than Carter” historical legacy.
He can’t really just release these guys, he can’t really try them in regular courts. He’s afraid of his own rabid left supporters because they are more loyal to their weird America hatred than they are to him, so he’s got this huge problem. Can’t close Gitmo, can’t keep it open. So make empty promises while his toadies in congress pull his “closure” funding and he can shrug and claim he’s trying.
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