Posted on 02/09/2007 8:26:49 AM PST by tobyhill
WASHINGTON - Rep. John Murtha, D-Pa., said Thursday that he may seek to close the Guantanamo facility in Cuba - which is holding more than 300 al Qaida suspects - perhaps by including a requirement in the $100 billion supplemental spending bill for Iraq the Congress will vote on next month.
Murtha wields extraordinary power in the House as chairman of the military appropriations subcommittee and as a longtime ally of Speaker Nancy Pelosi, D-Calif.
Murtha told reporters Thursday that he had not made a final decision on trying to order the closure, but that he had dispatched a member of the House to Guantanamo last month to investigate.
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so we WILL have to release them into the US population,
they can't become indigent do they WILL get green cards.
Let's hope they all become taxi drivers in John Murtha's district.
The Dems are such complainers, they never think about the consequences of their positions. And they know the Russerts and the Matthews of the MSM are way too compromised to grill them on basic, obvious questions.
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