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Obama takes swipe at Congress over Guantanamo
CNN ^ | Dec 26, 2013 | Bryan Koenig

Posted on 12/28/2013 9:26:27 AM PST by Innovative

Edited on 12/28/2013 10:22:07 AM PST by Admin Moderator. [history]

President Barack Obama used his signing Thursday of the 2014 Defense Authorization Act to take a swipe at Congress for continuing to impede his efforts at closing the detention facility at the U.S. military base in Guantanamo Bay, Cuba.

Congressional opposition to transferring detainees owes to a fear that transferred prisoners would attempt to attack the United States. More than 80 prisoners have been cleared to return to their native countries, most to Yemen.


(Excerpt) Read more at politicalticker.blogs.cnn.com ...


TOPICS: Constitution/Conservatism; Extended News; Foreign Affairs; News/Current Events; Politics/Elections; War on Terror
KEYWORDS: gitmo; guantanamo; obama; terrorists
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Obama thinks he is an Emperor... and he has more concern for the terrorists than the US.
1 posted on 12/28/2013 9:26:27 AM PST by Innovative
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Act of War by Organized Rogue Operators..


2 posted on 12/28/2013 9:31:29 AM PST by Vendome (Don't take life so seriously-you won't live through it anyway-Enjoy Yourself ala Louis Prima)
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what a crock of sh^t. He has a pen and uses it illegally almost every day with executive orders.

A little thing like Congress doesn’t stop His Lowness.


3 posted on 12/28/2013 9:31:55 AM PST by llevrok (Obama 2008 : "If you vote for me, you can keep your country")
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Obama, whom I consider to be America’s Enemy Number One, should be incarcerated at Guantanamo. Before being locked up he should be waterboarded to see if he knows anything.

I doubt the cretin knows a damned thing!


4 posted on 12/28/2013 9:32:10 AM PST by IbJensen (Liberals are like Slinkies, good for nothing, but you smile as you push them down the stairs.)
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Seems like that would be the perogative of the
JUDICIAL/LEGISLATIVE branchs of our government.
Obama’s thirst for power is monsterous.


5 posted on 12/28/2013 9:33:30 AM PST by tet68 ( " We would not die in that man's company, that fears his fellowship to die with us...." Henry V.)
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Obama thinks he is an emperor...

Obama IS an emperor because he can always get enough backstabbing RINOs to go along with his agenda.

6 posted on 12/28/2013 9:37:10 AM PST by grania
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How many of those released have gone back to fighting?

Of course Obama wants to be able to free his fellow Muslims.

The Congress is crazy to allow him to have the authority he already has and the power he usurps every day./

If we had a real Congress instead of Democrats ass kissers and republican cowards we would also have a real President after this one was impeached.


7 posted on 12/28/2013 9:39:14 AM PST by Venturer (Half Staff the Flag of the US for Terrorists.)
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Still out there and growing — al Qaeda on the rebound, experts say

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/3106040/posts


8 posted on 12/28/2013 9:41:17 AM PST by Innovative ("Winning isn't everything, it's the only thing." -- Vince Lombardi)
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Of course Obama wants to be able to free his fellow Muslims.

That might be part of it. But, it always pays to follow the money. There was talk of re-commissioning a prison in Illinois to take the Guantanamo inmates, and Obama cronies were lining up to profit from its operation.

9 posted on 12/28/2013 9:41:24 AM PST by Pearls Before Swine
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What a snotty little pansy-boy the idiots have elected for their president.

it’s a shame his round heeled mother didn’t have enough sense to use condoms at her inter-racial parties.


10 posted on 12/28/2013 9:48:21 AM PST by Iron Munro (Orwell: There are some ideas so absurd that only an intellectual could believe them.)
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That’s right Barry, if it was up to you, they would be turned loose in our neighborhoods.

Idiot.


11 posted on 12/28/2013 9:49:46 AM PST by headstamp 2 (What would Scooby do?)
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During his campaign, why didn’t he reveal the fact that he is unable to accomplish anything because of GWB, Congress, the religious right, Republicans, the Tea Party, the Constitution and Fox News? Every time he shifts the blame, he’s admitting his own impotence and failures. Or he just didn’t know what his own administration was doing. By his own words, he’s confessing to be powerless and clueless.


12 posted on 12/28/2013 10:00:03 AM PST by Spok ("What're you going to believe-me or your own eyes?" -Marx (Groucho))
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and how many of those returned to Yemen have returned tro terrorism?

isn’t it like 50%

and how about those three a$$wipes they gave a house to in Jamaica? How are they doing?


13 posted on 12/28/2013 10:16:58 AM PST by Mr. K (If you like your constitution, you can keep it...Period.)
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“The executive branch must have the authority to determine when and where to prosecute detainees, based on the facts and circumstances of each case and our national security interests,” he said.

There it is without the modifier. It should send a chill
down any AMERICAN spine.


14 posted on 12/28/2013 10:22:19 AM PST by tet68 ( " We would not die in that man's company, that fears his fellowship to die with us...." Henry V.)
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Why doesn’t he just sign more executive orders?

Seems to be working with every other ILLEGAL law he has passed.

F U B O !


15 posted on 12/28/2013 10:24:32 AM PST by unixfox (Abolish Slavery, Repeal the 16th Amendment)
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Who hasn’t this nut job taken a swipe at?


16 posted on 12/28/2013 11:28:05 AM PST by freekitty (Give me back my conservative vote; then find me a real conservative to vote for)
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Did he hold his breath and stomp his feet?


17 posted on 12/28/2013 11:40:47 AM PST by bgill
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“Did he hold his breath ...”

We could only wish...


18 posted on 12/28/2013 11:48:42 AM PST by Innovative ("Winning isn't everything, it's the only thing." -- Vince Lombardi)
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I’m sure it was a b!tch to have to come in off the golf course...


19 posted on 12/28/2013 11:49:31 AM PST by nascarnation (Wish everyone see a "Gay Kwanzaa")
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Kill them all. Zero recidivism.


20 posted on 12/28/2013 12:01:59 PM PST by Carriage Hill (Peace is that brief glorious moment in history, when everybody stands around reloading.)
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