Posted on 05/21/2009 9:01:34 AM PDT by NormsRevenge
WASHINGTON – President Barack Obama said Thursday some of the terror suspects held at Guantanamo would be brought to prisons in the United States despite fierce opposition in Congress. He promised to work with lawmakers to develop a system for imprisoning detainees who can't be tried and can't be turned loose.
"There are no neat or easy answers here," Obama said in a speech in which he pledged anew to "clean up the mess at Guantanamo" that he said the nation had inherited from the Bush administration.
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Obama decried arguments used against his plans.
"We will be ill-served by the fear-mongering that emerges whenever we discuss this issue," he declared.
Speaking at the National Archives, Obama said he wouldn't do anything to endanger the American people.
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Watching Bob Beckel on Fox doing "analysis".. what a butt-wipe. Go to Hell, Beckel.
Thank You, Mr. Cheney.
That was game, set, and match for Cheney.
US President Barack Obama, seen here delivering his speech on national security at the US National Archives in Washington, DC, vowed not to back down on closing Guantanamo Bay despite raging controversy, branding the camp a "mess" and decrying Bush-era anti-terror tactics as based on fear. (AFP/Jim Watson)
What a pathetic excuse for leadership. Buyer’s remorse has to be setting in.
Well guys, I hate to be the bearer of bad news, but our friends that came over from Russia in 1990 said this is EXACTLY how the communist party took over that country. Keep your guns handy and watch each other’s backs. Pray hard and be prepared for anything! We are in for one NASTY ride!!!
I have come to the conclusion that Obama is in way over his head, his words are empty and his promises to keep us safe have no explanation.
I believe he is the weakest President in U.S. history.
What happens here is that it's NOT a question of how strong our prisons are but what will the still present AlQaida sleeper cells do in their vicinity or in the vicinity of the federal courts when Obama sticks the pukes in the prisons.
Frankly, it is truly difficult to imagine a President as ignorant and abysmally stupid as Obama.
Just where did they dig this guy up?
Gad!
Zero is an empty suit.
Obama, you have realized the worst fears of many.
Who, indeed, is guilty of fear-mongering here?
How do the wicked rule? Thru fear and intimidation.
Your own track record is already well-established in this regard.
FUBB is the only reaction I can come up with.
I saw it too.
One of the problems with putting people in prison, is that they can network their skill sets.
Now Obama can’t see a problem with adding international terrorists to that mix.
I honestly don’t like saying this over and over, but Obama is a pompous child. He hasn’t a clue when it comes to adult understanding on major issues.
“clean up the mess at Guantanamo”
What mess? Seems to have worked pretty well.
Gee, how inconvenient it was for W to capture terrorists.
Earth to Obamachev, under the Geneva convention, terrorists have no rights. The ACLU made the mess, freak.
SSDD
Same script, different day.
Obama, the worst President in the history of the United States.
The 4 slimebags just picked up in NYC for plotting to blow up synagogue and use Stinger missiles to shoot down a US military transport at Stewart Field in NY-
all “jailhouse converts” to islam
what a fertile recruiting ground for transferred GITMO un repentant islamic sociopaths
What a WHINER he is!
One more problem with putting terrorists in American prisons is the fact that the prison and surrounding community become a focal point for terrorists and anti war types alike.
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