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This is getting all so confusing anymore. First they want to release them in the spirit of peace hopenchange and kubayainess. Sure bring 'em here. Let 'em set up shop for that matter, open a grocery store, maybe sell some fireworks. But now all that has changed.
HEY YOU NINCONGRESSPOOPS! Pleas make up your minds. How the hell are we supposed to be mad at you and write mean nasty disparaging (how ya like that word?) remarks if we don't know where you stand from one second to the next?
from Newsmax:
Democrats Want Gitmo Inmates Kept Out of U.S.
Wednesday, May 13, 2009 7:25 PM
WASHINGTON -- New legislation by Senate Democrats would fund the closure of the prison at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, but it would block the transfer of any of the detainees to the United States.
The move to sidestep a political minefield is a rebuff to President Barack Obama, whose promise to close the Guantanamo facility within a year of taking office has run into Republicans and Democrats opposed to bringing accused terrorists onto U.S. shores.
The development comes as the full House and a key Senate panel are poised to advance Obama's $85 billion request for military and diplomatic efforts in Iraq and Afghanistan, a request that has swelled by another $5 billion to reflect the cost of new U.S. contributions to the International Monetary Fund.
The request for $50 million to close Guantanamo and transfer its detainees elsewhere has attracted much controversy, occupying many lawmakers _ especially Republicans _ even as other lawmakers voice growing worries about the chances of defeating al-Qaida in Afghanistan and Pakistan.
The administration has yet to produce a plan for what to do with the approximately 240 Guantanamo detainees, but Defense Secretary Robert Gates has said that between 50 and 100 would end up in U.S. facilities.
The $96.7 billion measure headed for a House vote Thursday contains no funds to transfer Guantanamo detainees.
But Senate Appropriations Committee Chairman Daniel Inouye, D-Hawaii, on Wednesday circulated an approximately $91.5 billion measure that includes $50 million to shutter Guantanamo and move its prisoners _ with the proviso that they can't be sent to the United States. The Senate bill appears to favor paying foreign governments to accept the prisoners.
It's by no means certain that other countries will prove willing to accept many Guantanamo detainees, especially if the United States is unwilling.
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WASHINGTON, Jan 13 (Reuters) - The Pentagon said on Tuesday that 61 former detainees from its military prison at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, appear to have returned to terrorism since their release from custody. Pentagon spokesman Geoff Morrell said 18 former...
Green Energy
Democrats Want Gitmo Inmates Kept Out of U.S.
This is getting all so confusing anymore. First they want to release them in the spirit of peace hopenchange and kubayainess. Sure bring 'em here. Let 'em set up shop for that matter, open a grocery store, maybe sell some fireworks. But now all that has changed.
HEY YOU NINCONGRESSPOOPS! Pleas make up your minds. How the hell are we supposed to be mad at you and write mean nasty disparaging (how ya like that word?) remarks if we don't know where you stand from one second to the next?
from Newsmax:
Democrats Want Gitmo Inmates Kept Out of U.S.
Wednesday, May 13, 2009 7:25 PM
WASHINGTON -- New legislation by Senate Democrats would fund the closure of the prison at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, but it would block the transfer of any of the detainees to the United States.
The move to sidestep a political minefield is a rebuff to President Barack Obama, whose promise to close the Guantanamo facility within a year of taking office has run into Republicans and Democrats opposed to bringing accused terrorists onto U.S. shores.
The development comes as the full House and a key Senate panel are poised to advance Obama's $85 billion request for military and diplomatic efforts in Iraq and Afghanistan, a request that has swelled by another $5 billion to reflect the cost of new U.S. contributions to the International Monetary Fund.
The request for $50 million to close Guantanamo and transfer its detainees elsewhere has attracted much controversy, occupying many lawmakers _ especially Republicans _ even as other lawmakers voice growing worries about the chances of defeating al-Qaida in Afghanistan and Pakistan.
The administration has yet to produce a plan for what to do with the approximately 240 Guantanamo detainees, but Defense Secretary Robert Gates has said that between 50 and 100 would end up in U.S. facilities.
The $96.7 billion measure headed for a House vote Thursday contains no funds to transfer Guantanamo detainees.
But Senate Appropriations Committee Chairman Daniel Inouye, D-Hawaii, on Wednesday circulated an approximately $91.5 billion measure that includes $50 million to shutter Guantanamo and move its prisoners _ with the proviso that they can't be sent to the United States. The Senate bill appears to favor paying foreign governments to accept the prisoners.
It's by no means certain that other countries will prove willing to accept many Guantanamo detainees, especially if the United States is unwilling.
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I'm Here, I'm Queer, Where's My Mirror? I'm pretty sure there have been major Military leaders in the past who were gay. What bugs me about this guy is the only fucking reason he was chosen is because of how and who he fucks. It has nothing...
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BREITBART:President Barack Obama is about to release or transfer 55 Gitmo prisoners, despite reports that the Libyan believed to be behind the killing of US Ambassador Christopher Stevens was a former Guantanamo inmate transferred to Libyan...
- Gitmo Inmates To Sue To Stay In Gitmo?
Apparently: Buried in a blog item by Newsweek's ace reporter Michael Isikoff is a bombshell. Appararently lawyers for Guantanamo detainees want to keep their clients in Guantanamo, rather than transfer them to the Obama administration's proposed...
- Shock: Senate Votes 90-6 To Block Funds For Gitmo Closure
From Jihad Watch: I guess this means you won't be my neighbor?!? Sanity in the Senate? Who would have imagined? "Senate votes to block funds for Guantanamo closure," by Andrew Taylor for Associated Press, May 20 (thanks to Stlreader):WASHINGTON –...
-
WASHINGTON, Jan 13 (Reuters) - The Pentagon said on Tuesday that 61 former detainees from its military prison at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, appear to have returned to terrorism since their release from custody. Pentagon spokesman Geoff Morrell said 18 former...