[444Flyer]

“...In the grand scheme, most of these guys will never pose a great threat to us anymore.”

5 currently held at Gitmo are alleged 9/11 conspirators.

Yahoo: “Lists of release Guantanamo prisoners who allegedly returned to battle”

See also:

“GUANTANAMO DETAINEE RESURFACES IN TERRORIST GROUP”
http://www.iht.com/articles/2009/01/23/mideast/detainee.1-414168.php

“RELEASED DETAINEES RETURN TO TERROR TRAIL”
http://www.news.com.au/story/0,27574,24960621-23109,00.html

[Red6]

Yes, in the grand scheme these guys are meaningless in so far that we're NOT talking about letting them go, but rather move where they are held. The folks at GITMO by now have little to no real intelligence value for us. The few that might get released eventually will be known and watched.

Obama is not saying to release these people.

That said, the closing of GITMO is stupid. It will cost the American tax payer; become a huge mess where terrorists get the chance to scream into the microphone; difficult to legally deal with because of the status of the terrorists, jurisdiction, and the classification of the information that is used against them; even the safety of these terrorists is an issue since they might get killed by fellow inmates........... In no respect does this make sense other than it “sounded good.”

What Obama will do is remove himself from the issue. OTHERS will have to figure out the who, what, where, when, and why and in this case the most important, how. Others will take the egg in the face, others will pay with their tax money, but Obama reaped the benefits on the campaign trail and that's all it was about. Now he will elevate himself above the issue, and the troubles associated with this move will be on the back of the DoD, some poor sap in the Justice Department, etc. OTHERS will now take the beating when things go wrong or get ugly. It's not a real terrorist act we're concerned with, but all the other crap that will ensue with this decision. IMHO