Posted on 05/21/2009 5:21:50 PM PDT by lewisglad
President Obama last night faced a major rebellion in his own party over plans to shut Guantanamo Bay.
He insisted that moving terror suspects to top-security U.S. prisons would not pose a public risk.
Mr Obama, facing the biggest crisis of his four-month old term, hit out hours after the Democrat-controlled Congress voted to block funding for the resettlement of 240 detainees.
Barack Obama is determined to close Guantanamo Bay. Detainees were tortured there under the Bush administration, whose policies on interrogations have been defended by former vice president Dick Cheney
However the President offered few practical details of his closure plan for the Cuban prison, which he wants to complete by next January.
During a speech at the National Archives in Washington yesterday, he claimed that 'fearmongering' speeches - many by fellow Democrats on Capitol Hill - were 'calculated to scare people rather than educate them'.
The Senate's denial of funds is a blow to Barack Obama's plans to close Guantanamo Bay prison by January
Last night former vice president Dick Cheney insisted it was Mr Obama who was putting the nation's security in jeopardy by dismantling President Bush's terrorism policies.
He said: 'It is recklessness cloaked in righteousness. He has found that it is easy to receive applause in Europe for closing Guantanamo.
'But it's tricky to come up with an alternative that will serve the interests of justice and America's national security.'
Mr Cheney also pointed out that keeping America safe for seven-and-a-half years after 9/11 was 'not a record to be rebuked and scorned, much less criminalised'.
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Obama is starting to show signs of stress and frustration and defensiveness.
He wants to be on offense, we MUST keep him on defense, all the time!
“Detainees were tortured there under the Bush administration”
Nope. No bias there at all. Sheesh.
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The fun part of all of this will be when the transferred prisoners go ballistic when they realize that U.S. Federal prisons don’t have the same amenities as Club Gitmo. The grass isn’t always greener....
As the father of a son who was at “ground Zero” on 9-ll I sadly opine that IMHO it will take yet another simular (or greater) terrorist attack on US soil before the majority of the American sheeple actually wake up and realize they are, and have been, totally “duped” by obama
I heard that and was surprised no one voiced any opposition.
He’s only doing this to spite his critics. Granted he’s wrecking the country, but that’s just more hatred against the Democrats and it’s what they justly deserve.
Lord, please remove Obama from his position of power. Let his own corrupt nature bring him down, Lord. Let the wickedness that he has done throughout his life catch up with him, and bring about his downfall. He does not deserve to be where he is, he is destroying the country, Lord. We need a leader who builds us up, not tears us down. We need a leader who doesn’t takeover prvate businesees and strongarm corporate officers with threats of PR destruction by the DC media, we need a leader who wants American businesses and business people to prosper. We do not need a leader who gives nuclear plants to other countries, we need a leader who will allow us to build the newest, safest nuclear power plant designs here at home.
Lord, Obama is dismantling the country. It may deserve to be dismantled. But Lord, please do not allow that to occur. Let Obama’s wrongdoings from the present and past come back to haunt him, and take him down. The country cannot survive with him at the helm, Lord, he needs to be removed. Remove him by his own underhandedness, Lord.
Thank you, God.
The more defensive he gets the more we know we’re needling him. Push push push and he’ll have a total breakdown and we’ll be free of him.
Good.
Once again this man is wrong, wrong, wrong. Apparently he isn't aware, but more likely chooses not to be aware, that one of the largest growing "religious" populations in prison is Muslim. There are many young men converting while in prison.
So...he is saying there will be NO members the religion of peace, who are released from prison, that will engage in jihad. I say you bet there'll be many who'll be happy to be a defacto member of the Taliban and will have learned the techniques at the feet of Taliban minions in prison. Great idea zero - not.
Stopped reading at that point. The author is clueless. If by "torture", he is referring to waterboarding, that occurred elsewhere, in "CIA secret prisons". Any reporter worth a damn knows this. KSM was waterboarded in March 2003. He did not make it to Gitmo until September 2006.
As Gitmo is a military prison, and only the CIA was authorized to waterboard, the waterboarding had to occur elsewhere.
I think so too!
We agree in Jesus’ name, Amen
FUBO!!
Matthew 18:20 For where two or three are gathered together in my name, there am I in the midst of them.
Lord, please remove Obama from his position of power. Let his own corrupt nature bring him down, Lord. Let the wickedness that he has done throughout his life catch up with him, and bring about his downfall. He does not deserve to be where he is, he is destroying the country, Lord. We need a leader who builds us up, not tears us down. We need a leader who doesn’t takeover prvate businesees and strongarm corporate officers with threats of PR destruction by the DC media, we need a leader who wants American businesses and business people to prosper. We do not need a leader who gives nuclear plants to other countries, we need a leader who will allow us to build the newest, safest nuclear power plant designs here at home.
Lord, Obama is dismantling the country. It may deserve to be dismantled. But Lord, please do not allow that to occur. Let Obama’s wrongdoings from the present and past come back to haunt him, and take him down. The country cannot survive with him at the helm, Lord, he needs to be removed. Remove him by his own underhandedness, Lord.
Thank you, God.
Are pigs flying?!
Rachael Maddow on PMSNBC is going after Obama!
She is even more LEFTIST than Obama if that is possible.
I guess she wants the TERRORISTS released because she is against Obama’s ‘prolonged detention’!
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