“The U.S. has said it fears the men would be executed if they were returned to China.”
Ok, so the problem here is?
They want more $$. Apparently $10K per resident is not enough. The fact that we are paying $200M to resettle these guys is a travesty of the highest order.
So Obama send this little island $200,000,000 to make sure that the Chinese Government doesn’t prosecute their own citizens? Liberal politics, what a joke!
public opinion has appeared overwhelmingly negative.
Imagine that a place where public opinion is overwhelmingly negative towards terrorists.
if US lock them up, thats bad
If China lock them up, thats good
If US free them and give them to China, thats bad
If US free them and not give them to China, thats good
Any Gitmo detainees to be release should be let go the same way we do with released convicts here in the states: Give them two changes of clothes, some pocket money to make phone calls, eat and get a bus ticket, then open the prison gate and toss their behinds out onto the street.
Great so the u.S. govt. sends Palau 200 million to take these terrorists and then the chi-coms send their hit squads to Palau to do them in.
Great way to waste tax money.
Just send them back to china.
I guess if Bin Laden hides in China, we could ask them to turn him over to us....right?
Where did we get these guys, if they’re not terror suspects?
If I were the Government of Palau, I would take the money, take these guys and then call the Chinese to come pick them up. I wonder if people remember that this quiet little paradise was the scene of one of the bloodiest battles of World War II and had the highest casualty rate of any of Islands in the Pacific campaign.
Maybe Palau can round up the Uighurs and sell them to China for $500 million, give Obama back his $200 million ‘stimulus’,and get on with their life.
This whole “ship ‘em to Palau” thing doesn’t bode well for the theories of the “nirthers”. Think about it. What does shipping these unrepentant terrorists to Palau really accomplish? It drives Western tourists to Hawaii, of course; the fabled land of Obama’s nirth... I mean birth. It all makes sense. Who wants to pay big bucks to go to a resort in Palau when the funny looking Chinese poolboy keeps wrapping the towels around his head and then explodes? It’s better to go to Hawaii instead. There, at least, the local Obamamtons don’t explode.