Posted on 03/08/2011 11:33:32 AM PST by knighthawk
“Hope” and “change” may have been the twin messages of Barack Obama’s 2008 presidential campaign, but the pledge that best embodied the central theme was his promise to shutter the U.S. detention facility at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba within one year of taking office.
For the American and international left, Gitmo was the most powerful symbol of everything that was wrong with the Bush presidency and the U.S. war on terrorism. They maintained it was an evil place, where innocent bystanders who had been caught up in America’s imperialist aggression in the Middle East could be held indefinitely, incarcerated without cause and helpless against maltreatment. At Gitmo, the story went, torture was commonplace, defilement of the Koran and Islam were daily occurrences and the military tribunals that would hear suspected terrorists’ cases were rigged against the defendants.
Never mind that most of this was delusional fantasy, Gitmo had to go.
(Excerpt) Read more at fullcomment.nationalpost.com ...
Ping
24 hrs. since this was announced and is the Peace and Justice crowd jumping all over Barry’s case?
No, they are up in Madison, Wisconsin, raising a ruckus for public unions.
Hypocrites!
Obama has learned to play the violin durning city burnings
Excellent, well-written article. Naturally I’m sending it on to all interested parties in my e-mail world.
I believe that 0bama’s main motivation for wanting to close Gitmo was that he wanted to move the prisoners to the vacant, new, Thomson prison in IL, either to pay someone back for political favors or to buy future politcal favors.
When it turned out that was not going to work out (using Thomson), he quickly dropped the idea.
Bump
Knighthawk - check this out - it’s our National Public Radio people standing WITH the Muslim Brotherhood. You’ll be outraged...
I am reading thru it and find it indeed shocking! What a toons these people.
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