Posted on 09/03/2009 7:45:04 AM PDT by AJKauf
On January 22, as one of his first official acts as president, Barack Obama signed an executive order mandating the closing of the U.S. detention facility at Guantanamo Bay within one year. Liberals on two continents cheered.
But what to do with the detainees? France agreed to take one prisoner; Ireland two. A few others have made “commitments” to take one or two miscreants off of our hands, after months of pleading from the Obama administration. For the most part, however, the Euro-states who did the most braying about Gitmo detainees have declined to accept them into their streets and jails.
For a while, Democrats floated the idea of releasing some of the detainees into federal prisons in the United States. But those plans were met with public uproar after, among other things, FBI director Robert Mueller admitted that bringing the prisoners onto the mainland risked “the potential for individuals undertaking attacks in the United States.”
You don’t say....
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To the left these guys are simply freedom fighters defending their homes against American imperialists.
The left has been saying from day one that we are the war criminals.
Totally consistent
It was the strategy all along. Now we know why people question his loyalty.
I have heard in the past, it is against the Constitution to even bring them into the States. Anyone know anything about this? If it’s true, it needs to be brought......big time.
The brown clown cells are going.
Nothing new here. That was the plan all along.
...and give a free pass to the Black Panthers.
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