Posted on 01/22/2009 5:56:38 AM PST by Sergeant Tim
Over the objections of a large majority of 9/11 family members, President Barack Obama is expected to sign an Executive Order today directing that the detention facilities at Guantanamo Bay Naval Base be closed:
Relatives of victims of the September 11 attacks, who were at the base this week to observe pretrial hearings, told reporters they oppose any halt to the trials. "The safest place to have these trials is Guantanamo Bay. If they were to move to the homeland it would endanger all of us," said Lorraine Arias Believeau of Barnegat, New Jersey, whose brother, Adam, was killed in the attacks.
In addition, President Obama has directed a 120-day suspension of detainee trials so that, "...his administration [can] review the military commissions process..." and will order the closure of all overseas "C.I.A. prisons." On January 14, 2009, the Washington Times reported, "The Pentagon is looking at several military bases in the U.S. as possible sites to hold terrorist suspects now at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, including Camp Pendleton in San Diego and Fort Leavenworth in Kansas."
Debra Burlingame is skeptical about President Obama's stated intent and whether he believes Guantanamo can be safely closed within one year. She offers that the detainees are far more dangerous than Obama imagined prior to being read-in on their classified files. Yesterday, she discussed this with Neil Cavuto [video report].
But how dangerous is the average detainee at Guantanamo? Listen to Gordon Gucullu. Beginning in 2005, he made five trips to Guantanamo, spent 3 1/2 years researching the facility, and embedded with our troops there. He starts out by describing the frequent attacks made by the Islamic jihadist detainees there upon our troops:
The Wall Street Journal weighed in this morning:
One suggestion is moving the remaining prisoners to Kansas's Fort Leavenworth, but state politicians are already sounding a red alert. The military base is integrated into the community and, lacking Guantanamo's isolation and defense capacities, would instantly become a potential terror target. Expect similar protests from other states that are involuntarily entered in this sweepstakes.
The New York Times did its ritual dance of joy this morning. As expected, after it has once again endangered American lives through a successful propaganda campaign, it paraded the closing as the main headline this morning [Red Square emphasis added mine]. For the benefit of those non-Times readers, it also does this whenever it reveals America's classified secrets:
Lastly, Congressman John Murtha (D-PA) announced that he'd take the detainees:
Rep. John Murtha, D-Pa., said he would take the detainees in his own district, which lies just a few miles from the field near Shanksville, Pa., where United Flight 93 crashed after it was hijacked by terrorists on Sept. 11, [murdering all 40] people aboard."Sure, I'd take them. They're no more dangerous in my district than in Guantanamo," Murtha said, calling the Guantanamo prison a "sore in the United States' moral standards."
"There's no reason not to put them in prisons in the United States and handle them the way they would handle any other prisoners."
Congressman Murtha offered no opinion on the morality of willfully endangering his constituents in Pennsylvania's 12th District.
The diminutive Du-kaka.
As in "Beware of Greeks wearing lifts."
Al Qaeda has not and need not spend a penny defending their fellow murdering dog brothers. The ACLU has put up $8 million. The Kuwaiti government paid for both the lawyers and PR for their 12 jihadists. Literally bags of Middle Eastern money from Saudi Arabia, the UAE, you name it are waiting to throw at the lawyers itching to defend those b******s.
Hey! We’re not all ying-yang, slack jawed, doofuses, at least about 40% of us aren’t.
LLS
Pfft! Rumor has it that Club Gitmo is NOT closing. MTV is working on a new Real World segment - Real World Guantanamo ... very hush hush.
Afghanistan.
He tended to the well-being of the enemy! The very indescribably fiendish things that attacked and killed 3,000 civilians on 9/11 and that routinely dismember live captives before killing them.
As I read details of the latter I had the same disbelief that I had at the time of the former: these things don't happen but they did happen -- they are happening.
NEXT:
“President shows Cuba good faith by signing over possession of Guantanamo base”
The disdain this party shows against protecting this country should never come as a suprise anymore.
And when another attack happens, they’ll blame it on W, just like the idiots handbook tells them to.
:-) Be hard for my buds to bring any back to me though.
LLS
It is clear, is it not, that the MSM is INSANE!
The 9/11 Terrorists attacked New York and the NYT’s et al want to let them out of Gitmo to have another shot.
Fidel Castro 'Believes in Obama'HAVANA (AP) - Fidel Castro watched the U.S. inauguration
on television and said Wednesday that Barack Obama seems
"like a man who is absolutely sincere," Argentina's president
said after meeting with the ailing Cuban icon. "Fidel believes in
Obama," Cristina Fernandez said.The meeting with Fernandez, just before she ended a four-day
visit to Cuba, dispelled persistent rumors that the 82-year-old
Castro had suffered a stroke or lapsed into a coma in recent
days."I was with Fidel about an hour or more," she told reporters
at the airport as she left. "We were chatting, conversing.
He looked good."LINK:
http://apnews.myway.com/article/20090121/D95RQGSO0.html
Murta is a TROPHY IDIOT
I firmly believe that they are getting the government they deserve.
The problem is, with national level politicians, the REST of us get what they deserve also.
www.sportsmansguide.com
I never will.
AMEN. Amen.
BTTT
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