Cheney was the Decider behind the release of the 1,500 Gitmo detainees to the Saudi “Art Therapy Terrorist Retraining Program” in Nov. ‘07. So maybe Obama did learn from him.
Back up that statement? Cheney said he disagreed with some of the decisions Bush made on other’s advice.
Didn’t the USSC force the release of these detainees from Gitmo?
No, Cheney was NOT “the decider”
Look to the USSC and their decision to grant GITMO detainees Constitutional rights, and the actions of numerous liberal judges and lawyers that freed these people on legal technicalities because the Bush admin was undercut at every juncture by our own legal system
The Saudi program did NOT receive “1500 GITMO prsioners”- it received only a select number of detainees who were Saudi, based on promises hy the Saudi govt to rehab them- they failed, or lied, or both, to Pres Bush
some background for you- and it sounds like you need to dig for more and educate yourself a lot more
http://www.antiwar.com/ips/fisher.php?articleid=8933
judge orders gitmo release
http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2008/11/20/terror/main4620638.shtml
supreme court gives gitmo detainees rights
http://www.upi.com/Top_News/2009/01/19/Gitmo-releases-indicate-scant-evidence/UPI-55661232370865
http://www.cnn.com/2009/WORLD/meast/03/13/guantanamo.saudis.yemen/index.html
released by bush, head of al qaeda in yemen
http://www.nytimes.com/2009/01/23/world/middleeast/23yemen.html?_r=1
Muhamad Attik al-Harbi
http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,494784,00.html
http://www.asharq-e.com/news.asp?section=1&id=15541
Said Ali Shari aka Muhamad al-Awfi
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Said_Ali_al-Shihri
http://projects.nytimes.com/guantanamo/detainees/372-said-ali-al-shihri
overview
http://www.the-american-interest.com/article.cfm?piece=634
It’s interesting. Democrats are big spenders on everything but national security, decade after decade, during peace or during war. Propose cutting almost any government program at any time and Democrats will scream and caterwaul until you’ve gone deaf. But they consistently lead the charge in cutting funding to DoD during peacetime and now, trying to cut funding for the war and Camp Delta at Gitmo.
If I’m right about the timing, 2009 is probably the next time we can look forward to a bona fide and spectacular al Qaeda attack attempt on American soil. Whatever they’re cooking up, it’s in the planning stages right now, in New York or the DC suburbs or wherever they believe they can operate without detection and will have access to their supplies and targets. Until they move or are busted, we can look forward to more idiotic posturing from Democrats who are at the same time promising to blow billions on new government programs for all kinds of things, while de-funding the war in Iraq and cutting the funds to house some very bad men at Gitmo. We can look forward to more context-free reports of carnage from all over the world, and we get to enjoy the downright delicious prospect of even Republicans deserting the war effort.
Their priorities tell us that virtually no Democrat and fewer Republicans are serious about the threat that those men at Gitmo and their mates in London pose.
http://hotair.com/archives/2007/06/2...h-close-gitmo/
perhaps liberals should leave national security to us