Pentagon official: US must take Gitmo prisoners

AP via Breitbart ^ | May 20, 2009 | By ANNE GEARAN

[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.

[Carley]

Move them to Chicago. No one will notice any difference at all.

[east1234]

Their surrenders should have never been accepted. Unless its someone being specifically hunted, they should be killed in the field.

[a fool in paradise]

Return them to the places they were captured. They have no business inside the United States.

[freekitty]

Exactly and we will make sure she takes care of them personally.

[mom4melody]

Has anyone considered the possibility that Zero wants the terrorists out of Gitmo because he wants to close Gitmo and give it back to the Castro’s?

[kabar]

Part of the good cop, bad cop charade.

[MCF]

I think bring them to the U.S. is a great idea. I would much rather see them on Attu Island then at Club Gitmo.

[Godwin1]

This vile, low hack. Let her take them into her house. The prisoners are fine where they are. If the whiny America-hating Eurotrash want some of them , fine. But they don't belong here.

[Frantzie]

I heard Jed Babbin on Dennis Miller driving home last night. Miller is okay and was preferable to Levin whining. Babbin said bringing them to America would be against the law.

We need to stay on members of Congress. I think Congress or Dems in Congress know they will lose a lot fo seats if they bring them here.

[dead]

So in Obama's America, the top chick-appointee at the Pentagon will order congress to enact legislation contrary to both the Constitution and the will of the American people.

And Bush was a "fascist" because people decided not to buy crappy Dixie Chick records.

[Frantzie]

The good thing about the “Euro-Trash” is they do not elect Muslims to run their country. They do not want them and Merkel, Sarkozy and a few others have stood up to Hussein.

I know longer judge Europeans or their leaders as they do noty elect muslims or have Catholic students cheering messiahs for partial birth abortion.

[BP2]

Pentagon official: US must take Gitmo prisoners

a top Pentagon official

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

Bullsh!t !!! Don't buy into this being a “Pentagon” proclamation on Gitmo.

Flournoy served as a senior-level political appointee in the Department of Defense during the Clinton administration. She is a supporter of the Democratic Party and donated to the Hillary campaign. She's far from having a non-biased view on this.

When someone like Flourney speaks — just like Leon Pinetta last week for the CIA — they are NOT only speaking as a Agency official. They are speaking on behalf of the Obama Administration so Obama doesn't take a political hit for controversial views..

When the MSM says they don't know Obama’s position on a given topic, that's complete bullsh!t. Just listen to one of his appointed division chiefs — they would not put out their “position” unless it matched Obama’s position.

[exit82]

Give ‘em a Chrysler and tell them to ride off into the sunset.....

[MinuteGal]

".....closing the stigmatized prison"

A prison is brick and mortar, cement blocks and steel bars, wood and nails. It's inanimate and therefore cannot be "stigmatized".

The speaker, of course, is alluding to the "stigma" that is attached to evil America, to evil Americans, to evil American prison officials, to evil American guards, to evil American torturers, to evil George Bush, to evil Dick Chaney and to Evel Knievel.

Is the federal prison in Marion, Illinois "stigmatized" because it housed the Mafia boss and murderer, John Gotti? Should it be torn down because it's "stigmatized"?

The Left bastardizes and co-opts our English language every day.

Leni

[Virginia Ridgerunner]

Michele is about to learn a very hard lesson about congressional independence (from the Executive branch) and internal Senatorial politics.

[SE Mom]

...She says members of Congress need to remember that closing the stigmatized prison in Cuba will mean hard choices for everyone...

Hard choices? HARD CHOICES??? You mean like the hard choices made by Americans who jumped from the burning World Trade Center towers, Ms.Flournoy??? You and your comrades who live in an intellectual world where consequences are theoretical and worthy of further study are a clear threat to the security and safety of the nation.

[cranked]

These type people care more about perception than they do about the safety of America. How much moronic can these people get?

[Phlap]

Without singling anyone out, Flournoy said lawmakers need to think more "strategically."

Strategically? By definition:

4. Military.

a. intended to render the enemy incapable of making war,...

Simple. Off with their heads!

[Frantzie]

Firing squads and bullets are cheap for the terrorists. I will even provide the bullets.

[Dahoser]

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?

It's in between the Credit Card Clause and the Fuel Economy Standards Clause.