Posted on 05/20/2009 8:17:48 AM PDT by Kartographer
The director said he was generally concerned about whether such individuals might provide financial support to terror networks, radicalize others, or even take part in attacks within the United States.
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Please tell me this is The Onion or Scrappleface....
gosh, you know all of those liberal-socialists wanted to close gitmo,
and say,
shouldn’t they put a few here and there?
like dude, in santa monica, boulder, austin, madison, berkeley, hollywood, seattle, duke u, santa cruz, manhattan, portland or, ...
Not a problem Mr Director. They’ll only be killing the infidels and their children. And if Obama can live with you, you should too.
(correction): And if Obama can live with that, you should too.
“Please tell me this is The Onion or Scrappleface....”
AP...same thing.
A regular freakin' genius. Did he just wake up with this thought yesterday, or have 0be's minions sent him out to "force" a change of 0be's "mind"?
“The director said he was generally concerned “
But not REALLY concerned
or REALLY REALLY CONCERNED
(or deeply saddened)
Tough. They won.
1. Leave Gitmo open.
2. Send terrorists to any country that will take them.
3. Park them somewhere in the U.S.
He has ruled out the Gitmo option. The world has ruled out sending them to other countries. Plus Obama would never ever send a terrorist to a country that might, can I say it, torture them. So he is stuck with building a facility in the U.S. to replace one on a nice safe island. Good luck Obama. The only virtue of making this swap is it will make you and your idiot liberal supporters feel good. On the downside it will make the state, city, county that ends up with the new facility a primary target for the next big terrorist attack on the U.S. Don't believe it. Well the people that live in that state, city, county will believe it and they will have their say in the next election.
Our "friend" Obama just keeps digging himself a deeper and deeper hole.
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And Then There Was Only Guantánamo . . . [Victor Davis Hanson]
With the Democratic no-go on Guantánamo (I’ll leave it to the better informed to ascertain the degree that the Democratic Congress came to the rescue of an embarrassed Obama administration and cut off funding for the shutdown to allow him an out with the now familiar excuse of “they did it — not me, who keeps promises”), I think we now have come to the end to the five-year left-wing attack theme of Bush “shredding the Constitution.”
Except for the introduction of euphemisms and a few new ballyhooed but largely meaningless protocols, there is no longer a Bush-did-it argument. The Patriot Act, wiretaps, e-mail intercepts, military tribunals, Predator drone attacks, Iraq, Afghanistan — and now Guantánamo — are officially no longer part of the demonic Bush/Cheney/Rumsfeld nexus, but apparently collective legitimate anti-terrorism measures designed to thwart killers, and by agreement, after years of observance, of great utility in keeping us safe the last eight years.
Add in the Holder statements about Guantánamo in the 2002 interview, the Pelosi/Rockefeller/et al. waterboarding briefings, the need to consider torture in past statements by senators such as Schumer, and I think historians will now look back at these “dark years” as largely a collective, bipartisan effort.
All of which leaves us a final musing: If so, what was the hysteria of 2001-2008 about other than simple politics?
I doubt we get any more movies about ongoing renditions, redactions, any more Checkpoint-like novels, any more waterboarding skits and reenactments, any more late-night comedians doing their Bush tapped, intercepted, tortured, renditioned, tribunaled poor suspect X routines.
And I guess as well that the good old days of supposedly flushed Korans in Guantánamo and Omar the poor liberationist renditioned to Cairo are over. We are now in the age of a sober and judicious President Obama who circumspectly, if reluctantly and in anguish at the high cost, does what is necessary to keep us safe.
And we won’t see a brave young liberal senator, Obama-like, barnstorming the Iowa precincts blasting a presidency for trampling our values with the shame of Guantánamo, wiretaps, intercepts, renditions, military tribunals, Predators, Iraq, etc. That motif just dissolved — or rather, it never really existed.
In short, all the fury, the vicious slander, the self-righteous outbursts, the impassioned speeches from the floor, the “I accuse” op-eds by the usual moralistic pundits — all that turned out to be solely about politics, nothing more.
As soon as their names are made public,
the terrorists will become the cause celebre for many Democrats and Hollywood.
Just like cop killer Mumia Abu Jamal.
They’ll wear “ Free Hamid “ T shirts and hold rallies outside prisons.
Susan Sarandon ,Danny Glover, Sean Penn and Ed Asner will headline Hamid fundraisers
attended by radical Democrats like Ron Dellums, many members of the Congressional Black Caucus,
Bobby Rush, Jim Moran, et al.
Geez, I would be too.
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