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Obama says US prisons tough enough for detainees (Obama whines about the mess he was left with)
AP on Yahoo ^ | 5/21/09 | Steven R. Hurst - ap

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.

(Excerpt) Read more at news.yahoo.com ...


TOPICS: Crime/Corruption; Foreign Affairs; Front Page News; Government; War on Terror
KEYWORDS: detainees; obama; prisons; toughenough; wot
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To: NormsRevenge
Maybe Obama needs to take a quick trip down to Cuba and have a look at this so called mess himself before he makes anymore rash decisions.
21 posted on 05/21/2009 9:10:02 AM PDT by Dixie Yooper (Ephesians 6:11)
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To: NormsRevenge

Wasnt it harry Reid who said we werent going to place any Gitmo prisoners in this country.?

Somebody has to give. They cant both be right.

Obama has already proven with his CAFE standard that he doesnt need the Congress, what are we paying them for?

Obama thinks he can run the world, his ego is writing checks his azz cant cover. The sooner somebody in Congress gets fed up and jerks a knot in his butt the better.


22 posted on 05/21/2009 9:10:28 AM PDT by Venturer
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To: NormsRevenge

“Obama whines about the mess he was left with...”

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Along with the stalwart 24/7 ObamaMedia and his brain-dead voters.

A fundamental excuse pillar of the Obama Administration, both in his attempts to remake America into a second-world, socialist hell-hole and for his historical legacy, will be that this was all....drumroll.....Bush’s fault.


23 posted on 05/21/2009 9:10:30 AM PDT by EyeGuy
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To: boomop1

He’ll meet other Muslims there..


24 posted on 05/21/2009 9:10:34 AM PDT by sheik yerbouty ( Make America and the world a jihad free zone!)
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To: NormsRevenge

What a complete and total idiot. It was in prison where the NY goons were recruted by Islam militants.


25 posted on 05/21/2009 9:10:59 AM PDT by fml
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To: NormsRevenge

Obama puts all responsibility on ‘the last 8 years’ and takes none himself - same victim mentality that is used in the minority community - this is reverend Wright as a mild mannered reporter, but the hate for US values is still there.

He doesn’t understand that the ‘rule of law’ is intended for a country’s citizens to maintain order _within_ the country, not to conflate with or abridge wartime actions from foreign enemies.


26 posted on 05/21/2009 9:11:10 AM PDT by Kent C
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To: NormsRevenge

I don’t know why Fox has Beckel on. Every time I see him I have to wonder if he’s banging prostitutes again.


27 posted on 05/21/2009 9:11:12 AM PDT by dragonblustar ("... and if you disagree with me, then you sir, are worse than Hitler!" - Greg Gutfeld)
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To: muawiyah

>>>> 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. <<<<<

Beckel’s OK with the al Qaeda terrorist supporters lurking and plotting in suburban family neighborhoods such as Alexandria and Fairfax, just so long as they’re not in McLean.

Now THAT would be an outrage! /sarc


28 posted on 05/21/2009 9:11:55 AM PDT by angkor
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Release the memos , Obama.

Let’s clear up that little issue, shall we?

No one is standing for election anytime soon.

Let the American people judge for themselves and quit relying on your army of goons to beat their drums of protest to drown out truths.


29 posted on 05/21/2009 9:11:57 AM PDT by NormsRevenge (Semper Fi ... Godspeed.)
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To: y6162
“clean up the mess at Guantanamo”

I agree. Obama needs to be pressed on this. What is the "mess" that exists? How will that be different from holding these men in prisons on US soil?

30 posted on 05/21/2009 9:12:59 AM PDT by Erik Latranyi (Too many conservatives urge retreat when the war of politics doesn't go their way.)
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To: NormsRevenge
There are no neat or easy answers here

Yes there is. There is a humane, well run prison at a US military base in the Caribbean. Its called Guantanamo.

Its only a problem because you've spent the last several years lying about it, and now you've got caught on your own lies. You lied about it without ever having seen it. Now you're in charge of it. You lied about the people running it without ever talking to any of them, and now you are their commander.

This all gives me the hives.

31 posted on 05/21/2009 9:13:17 AM PDT by marron
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To: NormsRevenge

thats all this excuse for a man and president can do is whine and continue to blame bush...what i want to know is how does he think by having club gitmo does it make us less strong and less safe...??...this putz needs to get to work solving the real issues at hand....


32 posted on 05/21/2009 9:13:44 AM PDT by tatsinfla
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To: NormsRevenge

ditto....


33 posted on 05/21/2009 9:14:14 AM PDT by tatsinfla
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To: cripplecreek

I agree. It won’t be one week before Code Pink will be out there prostrating themselves on behalf of those poor innocent people. (gag me)

It will be a leftist field day.


34 posted on 05/21/2009 9:15:04 AM PDT by DoughtyOne (Obama is mentally a child of ten. Just remember that when he makes statements and issues policy.)
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To: y6162

Obama’s speach can be ripped apart. I guess he feels that the trials held in Germany after WWII should have been held here in the States. Trials should be held in Gitmo, Iraq or Afganistan. Germans were not put in US prisons. They were held in Germany.

He also stated that he is going to change the way we, American citizens, will live in the 21st Century. I thought that decision was up to us, not him.

He stated also that he disagreed with many past administrations. I guess he is the only one that knows how to rule the United States. We have not been perfect in the past nor will we be perfect in the future but our fathers and grandfathers did a pretty dam good job in building this nation.

Thank you Mr. Cheney.


35 posted on 05/21/2009 9:15:56 AM PDT by RC2
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To: cripplecreek

WE WON

WE OWN (this mess)

Elections do have consequences , OBama.


36 posted on 05/21/2009 9:16:00 AM PDT by NormsRevenge (Semper Fi ... Godspeed.)
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To: NormsRevenge

How DARE Obama stand in front of the Constitution, a document he called “flawed” in a radio interview, and preach to us about how we should treat terrorists.


37 posted on 05/21/2009 9:16:02 AM PDT by Erik Latranyi (Too many conservatives urge retreat when the war of politics doesn't go their way.)
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To: EagleUSA
What a pathetic excuse for leadership. Buyer’s remorse has to be setting in.

Only buyer's remorse for those smart enough to be paying attention, which rules out about 60 million fools.
38 posted on 05/21/2009 9:16:58 AM PDT by Sig Sauer P220 (The great object is that every man be armed. - Patrick Henry)
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To: NormsRevenge

I think it would be wonderfull if zero would let them go at the end of my drive way.
My reasoning is that I have been threatened by these pukes and they do have the ability to kill me, they would then be close ebnough to kill me, and therefore I must defend myself. Crisis averted.
Call dead animal pick-up to have bodies removed.


39 posted on 05/21/2009 9:16:58 AM PDT by devistate one four (Back by popular demand: America love or leave it (GTFOOMC) TET68)
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To: NormsRevenge

NO I want none of them in this country. I don’t se how he thinks he can subvert the will of the people?


40 posted on 05/21/2009 9:18:01 AM PDT by chris_bdba
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