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Pentagon official: US must take Gitmo prisoners
AP via Breitbart ^ | May 20, 2009 | By ANNE GEARAN

Posted on 05/20/2009 7:01:55 AM PDT by Jet Jaguar

In an escalation of arguments over closing a prison facility at Guantanamo Bay, a top Pentagon official says members of Congress must rethink their opposition to accepting these detainees into the United States.

Michele Flournoy is President Barack Obama's new Pentagon policy chief. She says members of Congress need to remember that closing the stigmatized prison in Cuba will mean hard choices for everyone. She spoke after Senate Democrats said they won't pay for closure until the administration delivers a satisfactory plan for what to do with the detainees.

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TOPICS: Crime/Corruption; Foreign Affairs; Front Page News; Government
KEYWORDS: gitmoprisoners; islamicterrorism; micheleflournoy; obamanation; obamasfault; pentagon; shadowgovernment; waronterror
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1 posted on 05/20/2009 7:01:55 AM PDT by Jet Jaguar
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To: Jet Jaguar

eff that


2 posted on 05/20/2009 7:02:41 AM PDT by yldstrk (My heros have always been cowboys--Reagan and Bush)
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To: Jet Jaguar

Fine! We’ll set up a half-way house right next DOOR to her domicile!


3 posted on 05/20/2009 7:03:39 AM PDT by GWMcClintock ("When the foundations are being destroyed, what can the righteous do?" Ps. 11:3)
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To: Jet Jaguar

How about moving them to your house, Michele? Another affirmative action incompetent heard from. Elections have consequences, all of them bad in the current situation.


4 posted on 05/20/2009 7:04:24 AM PDT by kittymyrib
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To: Jet Jaguar

To Obama re the Gitmo terrorists-you wanted them , they’re yours. Put them in your house in Chicago, put them in the basement of Congress. They’re yours and the rats’ babies. Tell Pelosi to take some home with her on her jet.


5 posted on 05/20/2009 7:04:45 AM PDT by mrsmel (Put the Gitmo terrorists near Capitol Hill.)
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To: Jet Jaguar

It would be a great boost to the Iraqi economy to have them stored there.


6 posted on 05/20/2009 7:04:48 AM PDT by HereInTheHeartland (I agree with Rick..)
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To: Jet Jaguar
...a top Pentagon official says members of Congress must rethink their opposition to accepting these detainees into the United States.

Gosh, I must have missed that civics class where the Executive branch bureaucracy was given authority over the legislative branch. Someone fill me in...where is that in the Constitution?

7 posted on 05/20/2009 7:05:00 AM PDT by SoFloFreeper
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To: Jet Jaguar

Michele should volunteer to take them into her home and be responsible for everything they do.


8 posted on 05/20/2009 7:06:21 AM PDT by MEGoody (Ye shall know the truth, and the truth shall make you free.)
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To: Jet Jaguar

Isn’t the FBI always on the hunt for terrorist inside the USA?

First murder by one of these cretins and it’s curtains for the Congress critters who approve this. ZERO, well we know ZERO doesn’t care.


9 posted on 05/20/2009 7:06:51 AM PDT by Tarpon (You abolish your responsibilities, you surrender your rights.)
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To: Jet Jaguar

“Michele Flournoy is President Barack Obama’s new Pentagon policy chief.”

You just cannot fix stupid.


10 posted on 05/20/2009 7:07:28 AM PDT by edcoil (IF CA rolls pollution standards back to 1990 levels, lets roll CA spending back as well.)
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To: Jet Jaguar
Michele Flournoy is more worried about whether the Global Community likes us or not. If we don't risk killing millions of American citizens by releasing these animals onto Main Street USA, then the world may not like us as much any more.

And we certainly can't have that, can we?

11 posted on 05/20/2009 7:07:36 AM PDT by kromike
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To: Jet Jaguar
Let them "emmigrate" across the Gitmo Fence into Cuba.

BTW, why does Gitmo even have a fence?

12 posted on 05/20/2009 7:08:22 AM PDT by Paladin2 (Big Ears + Big Spending --> BigEarMarx, the man behind TOTUS)
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To: SoFloFreeper
Someone fill me in...where is that in the Constitution?

Welcome to New Kenya (Africa U.S.A.)

Where the law of the jungle has replaced the Law of the Land! /sarcasm

13 posted on 05/20/2009 7:08:37 AM PDT by Texas Fossil (Once a Republic, Now a State, Still Texas!)
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To: Paladin2

Gitmo has a fence to keep Cubans out. They know there is good food in there, and possibly a ticket to the USA.


14 posted on 05/20/2009 7:11:16 AM PDT by Sender (It's never too late to be who you could have been.)
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To: Jet Jaguar

She’s got the necessary pedigree for the Obama Administration: graduate of Harvard, Oxford, Kennedy School of Government, Clinton Administration veteran, Democrat donor, opposed the war, etc.


15 posted on 05/20/2009 7:12:20 AM PDT by andy58-in-nh (You have enemies? Good. That means you've stood up for something, sometime in your life.)
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To: Jet Jaguar

“She spoke after Senate Democrats said they won’t pay for closure until the administration delivers a satisfactory plan for what to do with the detainees.”

Shoot them? Just a thought.


16 posted on 05/20/2009 7:13:48 AM PDT by Beagle8U (Free Republic -- One stop shopping ....... It's the Conservative Super WalMart for news .)
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To: Jet Jaguar

“closing the stigmatized prison”

I’m still trying to figure out how it’s “stigmatized”. Did these people expect to be treated better when they declared war against us?


17 posted on 05/20/2009 7:14:14 AM PDT by popdonnelly (The greatest crimes in history have been perpetrated by governments. You've been warned.)
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To: Jet Jaguar

Yo, Michele, how about we put them in a group house down the block from where you live.


18 posted on 05/20/2009 7:14:58 AM PDT by tx_eggman (Clinton was our first black President ... Obama is our first French President.)
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To: Jet Jaguar
Without singling anyone out, Flournoy said lawmakers need to think more "strategically."

I'll tell you what Ms. Flournoy, if their own people won't take them, why on earth should the American taxpayers give them more succor than they have at Guantanamo? The cost of relocating these terrorists is mind boggling....but hey, this is the Obama Era where millions became billions and those are now trillions....moving a few souls to the high ground and close a better solution is really the Obama way.....

19 posted on 05/20/2009 7:16:24 AM PDT by yoe
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To: Jet Jaguar

Since when did the Pentagon get to tell civilians what to do? We, the People, have the ultimate say in this. For once our representatives are listening to our voices.


20 posted on 05/20/2009 7:20:19 AM PDT by keepitreal (Obama brings change: an international crisis (terrorism) within 6 months)
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