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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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To: Jet Jaguar
Here's a hard choice for that old moonbat ~ they don't go here ~ no way, no how, no kind, and if she can't figure that out she can certainly find a gun somewhere in the Pentagon and just blow her brains out.

End of story.

41 posted on 05/20/2009 7:54:02 AM PDT by muawiyah
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To: east1234

Too bad they weren’t, the left has fed on their presence for years. As much to blame are the stupid Americans who have more concern for terrorists who would cut their heads as soon as look at them, than they do for the sons and daughters in Iraq, and their fellow countrymen.


42 posted on 05/20/2009 7:55:39 AM PDT by mrsmel (Put the Gitmo terrorists near Capitol Hill.)
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To: mom4melody

Comrade Zero wants them OUT of Gitmo because he wants them IN the USA where his running dog lackey, Eric “the Red” Holder can use them as an experienced hit team to take care of his political enemies.


43 posted on 05/20/2009 7:56:49 AM PDT by muawiyah
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To: SumProVita; HardStarboard; BradyLS; Ernest_at_the_Beach; dervish; Twotone; Free ThinkerNY; ...
Good post.

The list, ping

44 posted on 05/20/2009 7:57:51 AM PDT by Nachum (The complete Obama list at www.nachumlist.com)
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To: dead

“top-chick appointee”-LOL. Good to find humor in something when our own representatives want (or have pretended to want) to release decapitating terrorists amongst the people they claim they wanted to serve. But I like the description, it fits well.


45 posted on 05/20/2009 7:58:53 AM PDT by mrsmel (Put the Gitmo terrorists near Capitol Hill.)
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To: BP2

That’s a given with this slimy bunch. I wouldn’t degrade the Pentagon by associating the good men and women there, with a political hack.


46 posted on 05/20/2009 8:00:39 AM PDT by mrsmel (Put the Gitmo terrorists near Capitol Hill.)
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To: Jet Jaguar

OK, Michele, per your request, I just “rethought” the Gitmo issue.

I reached the same conclusion. No detainees on U.S. soil. Keep Gitmo open, it is being unfairly stigmatized. The detainees get better treatment than a lot of people in American prisons.


47 posted on 05/20/2009 8:01:42 AM PDT by freespirited (Is this a nation of laws or a nation of Democrats? -- Charles Krauthammer)
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To: SE Mom

Thanks for bringing this back to where it started. The rats would like for America to forget 9/11.


48 posted on 05/20/2009 8:02:21 AM PDT by mrsmel (Put the Gitmo terrorists near Capitol Hill.)
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To: Jet Jaguar

Hmmm. When does someone who assists terrorists become a terrorist by definition herself? Ms. Flournoy should think about the label that could be applied to herself. If the Gitmo detainees are housed or released in the US, the first US citizen who is killed directly or through a jihadi attack to get the prisoners released or memorialized, will be a victim of the Obama Administration.


49 posted on 05/20/2009 8:14:57 AM PDT by Truth29
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To: Jet Jaguar

well....looking at the 30 yr. history of Yucca Mountain and the attempt to get anyone to accept nuke waste in their districts, I suspect they will all be meeting Allah before they set foot on US soil. Should be fun to watch though.


50 posted on 05/20/2009 8:19:45 AM PDT by Buckeye McFrog
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To: Jet Jaguar
The Rats made GITMO a political issue instead of the National Security issue it is so they can deal with it and if a single terrorist steps foot on US soil then the Rats will also have to accept the consequences.
51 posted on 05/20/2009 8:20:20 AM PDT by tobyhill (Obama's a has-been that never was.)
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To: Jet Jaguar

She’s not a “Pentagon Official”...

She is a White House Official who works at the Pentagon.


52 posted on 05/20/2009 8:24:51 AM PDT by VaBthang4 ("He Who Watches Over Israel Will Neither Slumber Nor Sleep")
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To: Truth29

Flournoy is a member of the Aspen Strategy Group, the Council on Foreign Relations, the International Institute for Strategic Studies, and the Executive Board of Women in International Security. She is a former member of the Defense Policy Board and the Defense Science Board Task Force on Transformation. She was a member of the guiding coalition of the Project on National Security Reform.


53 posted on 05/20/2009 8:25:01 AM PDT by bmwcyle (American voters can fix this world if they would just wake up.)
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To: Jet Jaguar
If the Constitution is not amended prior to Obama bringing them here then there is a strong likeliness that a Federal Judge would order their release based on Constitutional grounds. Right now, they are still held on foreign soil and for the most part out of reach of our American non-military judicial system.
54 posted on 05/20/2009 8:25:12 AM PDT by tobyhill (Obama's a has-been that never was.)
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To: Jet Jaguar
closing the stigmatized prison in Cuba will mean hard choices for everyone.

"Hard choices" is liberalspeak for "acts that Democratic politicians and bureaucrats like to pat themselves on the back for." Like raising taxes. Actual hard choices, like cutting the size of government, or in this case, sending the detainees to their countries of origin, are not even considered.

55 posted on 05/20/2009 8:27:08 AM PDT by denydenydeny ("I'm sure this goes against everything you've been taught, but right and wrong do exist"-Dr a)
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To: Jet Jaguar

Ship them back by boat. Have them all shackled in place. The boat should then have a catastrophic “accident”, with barely time for the crew to don life vests but no time to release the terrorists.


56 posted on 05/20/2009 8:28:53 AM PDT by JimRed ("Hey, hey, Teddy K., how many girls did you drown today?" TERM LIMITS, NOW AND FOREVER!)
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To: kromike
Michele Flournoy is more worried about whether the Global Community likes us or not.

When will these liberal morons realize that it does not matter if they like us, so long as they FEAR us?

57 posted on 05/20/2009 8:31:46 AM PDT by JimRed ("Hey, hey, Teddy K., how many girls did you drown today?" TERM LIMITS, NOW AND FOREVER!)
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To: Jet Jaguar
Rowan Scarborough writing in Human Events 'Soros Invades Pentagon' on April 21, 2009:

Democratic Party financier George Soros, who puts much of the blame for Islamic terrorists on America and former president George W. Bush, can celebrate his first foothold inside the Pentagon.

It is in the person of Rosa Brooks, far-left former Los Angeles Times columnist. She was once counsel to billionaire Soros' Open Societies Institute, whose funding arm bankrolls a number of hard-left pressure groups, such as MoveOn.org. MoveOn.org, of course, is the Washington outfit that smeared Gen. David Petraeus as a betrayer of his country, and depicted Bush in a Web ad as Adolph Hitler.

Brooks, who has also likened Bush to Hitler and claims the former president is "psychotic" and "fanatical," will not be a minor player. The Pentagon's No. 3 official and top policymaker, Undersecretary of Defense Michele Flournoy, has selected Brooks as a "principal adviser."

Congress should know exactly where its advice is coming from; while Flournoy moves her lips, George Soros does the talking.

58 posted on 05/20/2009 8:48:38 AM PDT by Sergeant Tim (In the War on Terror, there is no place to run from here.)
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To: Jet Jaguar
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.
I *was* going to post a retort to this drivel but I think it's now a Hate Crime to criticize a woman. And would be a violation of Tile 18 of the US Code to say anything bad about the Kenyan's administration.

oops

59 posted on 05/20/2009 9:19:54 AM PDT by Condor51 (The difference between stupidity and genius is that genius has its limits)
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To: SE Mom

You go, girl! As my Marine family of men has said to me, “Mom, I like the way you think,” I pass on to you. I like the way you think.


60 posted on 05/20/2009 9:53:30 AM PDT by Constitutions Grandchild
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