Posted on 02/01/2010 10:44:28 PM PST by pissant
Washington: Stating that the Guantanamo Bay terrorist detention centre is one of the biggest recruitment propaganda tools for extremist organisations world over, US President Barack Obama today reiterated his commitment to close Gitmo at the earliest.
"There's been no bigger propaganda weapon for many of these extremists than pointing to Guantanamo and saying that we don't live up to our own ideals.
That's something that I strongly believe we have to resist, even if it has some costs to it, and even if it's not always the most politically popular thing to do," Obama told YouTube in an interview.
Soon after becoming President, Obama had announced to close Guantanamo in one year, but he has not been able to meet the deadline.
Explaining the reason for this, he said: "Number one, you've got a whole bunch of individuals in Guantanamo, some of whom are very dangerous, some of whom were low-level fighters, some of whom the courts have determined should never have been put there in the first place."
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Yeah, the jihadists are willing to boil you in oil, behead their enemies, nuke major cities, blow up countless wimin and chillen - muslim wimmin and chillen no less, assassinate leaders of any religion, and use hospitals, mosques and orphanages as shields, and have been doing it for the last 30 years.
Yet somehow, the best prison any of these dirtballs have ever been in is somehow the BIGGEST PROPAGANDA TOOL FOR RECRUITMENT?
Bigger than Israel existing? Bigger than the plight of the po' palestinians? Bigger than us conquering Iraq and Afghanistan and installing democracy? Bigger than the 1000s and 1000s of jihadists that ended up like Uday and Kusay? Bigger than hanging Saddam the Magnificent? Bigger than us propping up fat King Saud/Faud? Bigger than us being Infidels?
Obama, you are either a very, very stupid man or a very twisted man with an agenda. I vote both.
No, our very existence is their biggest agit-prop in terrorist circles
It’s becoming very difficult for me to respond to this trash anymore, without using my Army words or saying something that could get me arrested.
The public trial in a civilian court of KSM will be a big propaganda tool for the islamic fascists.
Are we to believe that if only the trial is moved from New York to another city, that the world’s television cameras won’t be able to find it, and it won’t be a big circus?
Obama and Holder understand this, but the opportunity to allow KSM to put Bush and Cheney on trial is much more important than the propaganda opportunity for the radical muslims.
The terrorists have spoken in words and in deeds, including suicide bombers. They have what Churchill once described in the Nazis as ‘currents of hatred so intense as to sear the souls of those who swim upon them.’ We saw that on 9/11 — or should have seen it. But many, especially among the intelligentsia, are determined not to see it. ... People who have long been sheltered from mortal dangers can indulge themselves in the belief that there are no mortal dangers. Nuclear weapons in the hands of Iran or North Korea — and, through them, in the hands of hate-filled terrorists — may be all that will finally wake up such people. But that may be tragically too late.” — Thomas Sowell, here: http://freedomkeys.com/intellectuals.htm
“The fashionable idiocy that haters must have justifications is one of those ideas that George Orwell said only an intellectual could believe — because no one else could be such a fool.” — Dr. Thomas Sowell here: http://freedomkeys.com/intellectuals.htm
Actually, Jack Squat, you are the biggest propganda tool for Islamic extremists. Your wimp political correctness attitudes towards terrorists and terrorism are providing them with all the more reason to hit us, courtesy of your continued ineptness and weakness....you know, the one thing that those “extremists” abhor the most.
Be assured, they respected Bush; they do not respect you.
The existence of the United States of America itself, together with the existence of Israel, are propaganda tools for extremists. Should we close them as well?
The only way Gitmo is a propaganda tool is once the word got out all the jihadists want to go there.
I am sure every islamic imperialist expansion campaign had its own marketing slogan over the last 1400 years...
Also, they are busy attacking in China, India, and Russia places in Africa. Basically they are acting up globally.
Now tell me Obama, this was all cuzz of Bush and Gitmo, right?
Riggghhhhtt, fooool.
A reasonable nation would be showing and dramatizing the 911 film everyday but the Democrats/Leftist media have decided it is too insensitive for the survivors and kin to bear.
What a load of dog shit. Gitmo is like a Vegas resort where prisoners get better medical treatment than American prisoners in regular prisons, get recreational soccer time, get to take educational courses, get the best food served (up to $50 a meal depending if they are vegetarian, have allergies), etc. The terrorists will never mention this — so screw them and don’t try to pacify or appease these cold blooded bastards. Beat the shit out of them in battle. End of story.
BS: Mark
LOL! He works for the same people the terrorists do - the Saudis.
Maury Povich was already booked up.
The LEFT had turned it into a propaganda tool. Helped Obama get elected right? Obama “POS” POTUS.
It has its good points. What happens in getmo stays in getmo.
Gitmo: the nicest terrorist jail in the world (and yes, the Moose know it)
“There’s been no bigger propaganda weapon for many of these extremists than pointing to Guantanamo and saying that we don’t live up to our own ideals.
He’s actually speaking about himself, as he is one of the extremists.
“Obama told YouTube in an interview.
Maury Povich was already booked up.”
I would definately like to see him go on The Maury Povich show and get a lie detector test done. I bet Maury’s viewership for that episode would skyrocket to higher than that of the Superbowl.
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