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Senate Blocks Transfer of Gitmo Prisoners to U.S.A.
FOX NEWS | 5/20/2009 | staff

Posted on 05/20/2009 9:17:19 AM PDT by kellynla

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To: kellynla

HIP HIP...


21 posted on 05/20/2009 10:00:44 AM PDT by VaBthang4 ("He Who Watches Over Israel Will Neither Slumber Nor Sleep")
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To: kellynla
ALL DURING THE BUSH YEARS - ALL you heard from the Marxist Dimocrats were that these people were uncharged, not criminals, were having their Constitutional rights violated, not charged, not terrorists: YET NOW TODAY, DICK TURBAN DURBIN ADMITS THEY ARE TERRORISTS AND THEY WILL NOT BE RELEASED IN THIS COUNTRY!!!!!!!!!!!!!! EVERYTHING AGAINST BUSH AND THE GITMO WAS PURE, 100% POLITICS, PLAYED WITH OUR SAFETY!!! EVERY dimocrat should be sent packing off to live in Afghanistan!!!
22 posted on 05/20/2009 10:02:41 AM PDT by RetiredArmy (Right wing military retiree. Proudly on DHLS hit list!!!!!)
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To: RetiredArmy

I share your anger. These people are disgusting and NOBODY calls them on this stuff. Nobody, except Fox, will utter a sound about this treacherous posturing.


23 posted on 05/20/2009 10:16:09 AM PDT by JudyinCanada
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To: kellynla

Crap........I was hoping they’d go to Washington or Oregon, or better yet.........Massachusettes.


24 posted on 05/20/2009 10:16:31 AM PDT by glide625 (Refuse to assist Evil; This Government is pure Evil; those who support it are complicit therewith.)
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To: eureka!

Yep, I agree.


25 posted on 05/20/2009 10:18:48 AM PDT by DoughtyOne (Obama is mentally a child of ten. Just remember that when he makes statements and issues policy.)
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To: kellynla

IMHO the I in C wanted this vote.

He stuck his finger in the wind, saw the public set against turning the prisoners loose and is using the vote to avoid keeping his promise.


26 posted on 05/20/2009 10:19:06 AM PDT by Vinnie (You're Nobody 'Til Somebody Jihads You)
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To: Grunthor
Well GITMO is officially the sole problem of the Socialist Democrat Party now.

Since they signed the huge stimulus packages to "save us all", so is the economy. They "fixed" it for us.

It's going to be a long 4 years.

27 posted on 05/20/2009 10:23:02 AM PDT by concerned about politics ("Get thee behind me, Liberal")
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To: kellynla

It’s just political cover for Obama.

A complete win-win.


28 posted on 05/20/2009 10:26:30 AM PDT by Tex Pete (Obama for Change: from our pockets, our piggy banks, and our couch cushions!)
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To: DoughtyOne
Why doesn't the King just issue yet another executive order to impose his will on the land?
29 posted on 05/20/2009 10:29:17 AM PDT by Carling ("We've lost two people in my family because you dickheads won't cut trees down," - Warwick Spooner)
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To: Carling

It sounds as if there may be the two thirds majority to overturn any such E.O. Heh heh heh...


30 posted on 05/20/2009 10:32:46 AM PDT by DoughtyOne (Obama is mentally a child of ten. Just remember that when he makes statements and issues policy.)
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To: kellynla
NAYs -—6

Durbin (D-IL)
Harkin (D-IA)
Leahy (D-VT)
Levin (D-MI)
Reed (D-RI)
Whitehouse (D-RI)

Not Voting - 3

Byrd (D-WV)
Kennedy (D-MA)
Rockefeller (D-WV)

==

Hypocrisy:

John ‘I will close GITMO on Day 1 of MY presidency and move detainees to Ft. Leavenworth' McCain voted Yea (for the amendment) to keep detainees out of the US.

31 posted on 05/20/2009 10:35:47 AM PDT by TomGuy
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To: raven92876

ping


32 posted on 05/20/2009 10:37:41 AM PDT by stylecouncilor (The black man is keeping me down!)
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To: TomGuy

Thanks for posting.


33 posted on 05/20/2009 10:39:51 AM PDT by kellynla (Freedom of speech makes it easier to spot the idiots! Semper Fi!)
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To: ArrogantBustard
So ... who are the six damfools?

The usual suspects...

Durbin, Leaky, Levin, et al.

34 posted on 05/20/2009 10:40:17 AM PDT by NautiNurse (Obama: A day without TOTUS is like a day without sunshine)
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To: kellynla

Fresh blow for Obama after Senate defeat over Guantánamo Bay

President Obama’s high-profile pledge to shut Guantánamo Bay was shot down by his own party today when Senate Democrats voted to block the transfer of detainees and refused to pay for the closure.

The blow is the latest setback for the Obama Administration, which has already disappointed supporters by announcing that controversial military tribunals for detainees, set up by President Bush but halted by Mr Obama on taking office, will be re-started.

Senators denied the request for $80 million to move the 240 detainees from the US military base in Cuba. They also voted 90 to six to prevent the Administration from transferring any of the facility’s prisoners to the US. ...

Times Online (U.K.)

35 posted on 05/20/2009 10:40:37 AM PDT by Schnucki
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To: TomGuy

If you find out who didn’t vote, please let us know.
I guess Kennedy for sure and of course since they’re short one in MN, that only leaves one? Right??

Thanks,
Kelly


36 posted on 05/20/2009 10:48:02 AM PDT by kellynla (Freedom of speech makes it easier to spot the idiots! Semper Fi!)
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To: TomGuy

Oh, never mind...I didn’t see the bottom of the post. LOL


37 posted on 05/20/2009 10:49:00 AM PDT by kellynla (Freedom of speech makes it easier to spot the idiots! Semper Fi!)
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To: ArrogantBustard

I GUARANTEE you Boxer, Feinstein, and Schumer voted with the other 3.


38 posted on 05/20/2009 10:51:00 AM PDT by unixfox (The 13th Amendment Abolished Slavery, The 16th Amendment Reinstated It !)
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To: unixfox

Guess I was wrong.


39 posted on 05/20/2009 10:52:19 AM PDT by unixfox (The 13th Amendment Abolished Slavery, The 16th Amendment Reinstated It !)
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To: kellynla

Byrd was hospitalized recently.


40 posted on 05/20/2009 11:01:03 AM PDT by NautiNurse (Obama: A day without TOTUS is like a day without sunshine)
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