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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Send them all to Pennsylvania.
I dare him. This will be spoken about on the radio media and Fox equally or more than Pelosi's plane. I double dare him.
This is for no reason based on reality, just a crazy left wing political issue.
Good luck with that one. If the republicans had any spine they would pounce on this and hang the dems for wanting to let AQ out of detention.
Won't happen though..
I guess free legal services from the top corporate firms, and hearings befiore the US Supreme Court are not good enough for the terrorists.
Let them swim home.
Not all, half go to Pelosi's district in San Francisco.
You are right!The republicans do not have the balls to stand up and fight the rat's!!!!
naaahhhhh........just open the front gate at guantonimo, and let them walk straight into castro's arms....
The Democrats are the best friends the terrorists ever had and they are the worst enemies the American people ever had.
Trust Nancy Pelosi to put an anti-war traitor in charge of military appropriations.
Murtha also has a great deal of experience as the biggest grabber of military spending pork in the country.
Clearly they figure it's time to get back to the business of contracting out some $900 toilet seats--adjusted for inflation, of course.
Send them all to California and New York
Yes, sir! Keep on helping the democrat party with all the whining about who will run for president for us next time. You like what you see now in Congress? Well, you are gonna LOVE Old Crusty's best friend in the White House. For God's sake, compromise to some degree is what makes a free country. You got to give some to get some.
Not just anywhere in Pennsylvania, make sure it's Johnstown, Pennsylvania.
And a rider should be placed on the bill to free them offering them all room and board in Murtha's district.
Diana IREY! Where are you?.... Please run again!!!!!....
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