Posted on 01/07/2010 8:42:59 PM PST by neverdem
That Damn Guantanamo!
Obama gave a rather incredible press conference about his review of security lapses. When he evoked Guantanamo, the president all at once (“make no mistake about it”) (a) promised to close it, (b) promised not to send any more detainees home to Yemen, and (c) claimed it was a recruiting tool for al-Qaeda (i.e., apparently Bush’s Gulag had prompted the likes of Umar Farouk Abdul Mutallab to try to blow up an airliner).
This is nearly unhinged.
Mr. President consider:
1) Quit whining about closing Guantanamo, and close the damn thing. It either is useful or not. The American people are getting sick and tired of this sort of “Bush made me keep it open even though it is counter-productive” whining. If Guantanamo is a recruiting tool, then by all means stop the recruiting tool. Instead, we get the impression that these incredibly directionless people have discovered that Guantanamo has both utility and yet is a political liability among their more fervent supporters, and therefore they wish to continue its usefulness while blaming Bush for its unpopularity.
2) If you are not going to send back any more “alleged” terrorists to Yemen, then simply start trying them in your much preferred civilian courts. Why hold them any longer in the Gulag?
3) Let us get this straight: for a decade in the 1990s an ascendant al-Qaeda committed serial attacks against the U.S. and its interests. All that culminated in 9/11. In reaction to the mass murder, and as part of efforts to go after al-Qaeda and the Taliban in Afghanistan, Bush opened Guantanamo Bay — after which we have seen no successful major attacks on U.S. soil comparable to 9/11.
So consider the logic: before Guantanamo, al-Qaeda achieved its greatest success in damaging America; after it, it...
(Excerpt) Read more at pajamasmedia.com ...
Buck Zer0.
Now THAT actually made me laugh.
Good job, FRiend, and thank you.
The Buck Holder goes under the bus here.
And now...Another episode of:
‘President Bart Simpson Obama and his “I didn’t do it!” Gang’.
Or, “The Buck goes to non existing zip codes, and ends up in my pocket!”
LOL! ;*)
Or as Alfred E. Newman might say... “Buck?, What buck?”
Ping !
Let me know if you want in or out. Links:
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“This is nearly unhinged.”
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This is a fine piece of writing by Mr. Hanson but it suffers slightly from lack of brevity as does this sentence. In the four words quoted above one is unnecessary and actually diminishes the true meaning.
“Answer: After a year of observing, it is clear, he is both at the same time.”
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Imagine sounds of loud cheering and applause with a voice over comment, “Electronic measurements of the target indicate a bullseye hit within 99.9999 percent of perfect center.”
Or, alternately, “Cook county has scored an amazing 350 yard hole in one.”
Or, “I bleeve you dun sed a moufful, Cap’n”.
Great picture: Bucky stops here.
VDH disembowels Obama with his mighty pen.
Obama gave a rather incredible press conference about his review of security lapses. When he evoked Guantanamo... (a) promised to close it, (b) promised not to send any more detainees home to Yemen, and (c) claimed it was a recruiting tool for al-Qaeda... This is nearly unhinged.Correct, except for the "nearly". Thanks neverdem.
Nobama nailed again ping.
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