Democrat vs Democrat

POSTED BY: whozit
UPDATED: Wednesday, May 20, 2009 20:43
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WHOZIT

Tuesday, May 19, 2009 11:49 PM

Worse comes to worse, put them all up in a "Motel 6" in Newark.

http://www.breitbart.com/article.php?id=D989ENI80&show_article=1

GINOBIFFARONI

Wednesday, May 20, 2009 1:00 AM

Send em to Atlanta, issue them a tent and they can camp out in Raps backyard.

" They don't hate America, they hate Americans " Homer Simpson

Lets party like its 1939

KWICKO

Wednesday, May 20, 2009 3:07 AM

I think they're having a hard time figuring out what to do with the detainees because they're having a hard time figuring out what they are. Are they battle-hardened terrorists who'd just as soon cut your head off as look at you, or are they weak-willed people of soft moral character who can be easily broken with nothing more than fraternity pranks?

It's important we know which kinds of people they are if we're going to be housing them inside the U.S. Of course, once they're on "real" U.S. soil, they might have a few more rights than they currently don't enjoy...

I'm glad Congress is forcing Obama's hand on this one. It's time he step up and address the issue clearly and figure out what the hell he's going to do about Gitmo and the detainees.

Mike

Build a man a fire and he'll be warm for a day...
Set a man on fire and he'll be warm for the rest of his life.

GINOBIFFARONI

Wednesday, May 20, 2009 3:52 AM

Quote:
Originally posted by Kwicko:
I think they're having a hard time figuring out what to do with the detainees because they're having a hard time figuring out what they are. Are they battle-hardened terrorists who'd just as soon cut your head off as look at you, or are they weak-willed people of soft moral character who can be easily broken with nothing more than fraternity pranks?

It's important we know which kinds of people they are if we're going to be housing them inside the U.S. Of course, once they're on "real" U.S. soil, they might have a few more rights than they currently don't enjoy...

I'm glad Congress is forcing Obama's hand on this one. It's time he step up and address the issue clearly and figure out what the hell he's going to do about Gitmo and the detainees.

Mike

Build a man a fire and he'll be warm for a day...
Set a man on fire and he'll be warm for the rest of his life.

or folk not guilty of anything, there are at least a few.

and mind you, if they didn't hate the US before their Cuban vacations, I'm sure they do now.

Hell, if you have to suppress the truth to protect yourself, you must be feeling guilty of something right?

http://www.spiegel.de/international/world/0,1518,625823,00.html

Obama Trips Over Bush Torture Legacy

By Hans Hoyng, Britta Sandberg and Gabor Steingart

US President Barack Obama had thought he could clean up the Bush administration's questionable human rights legacy on his own terms. Recent decisions regarding Abu Ghraib pictures and military tribunals show that he was mistaken. His message of "change" is at risk.

There are precisely 44 photos that put the national security of the United States of America at risk -- not quite four dozen images that threaten the lives of soldiers in Afghanistan and Iraq. They are images that are best kept from the global public.

Barack Obama is having trouble escaping the troubled legacy left him by the administration of George W. Bush.
AFP

Barack Obama is having trouble escaping the troubled legacy left him by the administration of George W. Bush.
US President Barack Obama has seen them. And last week, addressing reporters on the South Lawn of the White House, he decreed that they should be kept under lock and key. The images, he said in his brief yet firm address, could "reignite" anti-American sentiments.

Apparently the photos are horrifying, even worse than those from the Abu Ghraib prison in Iraq, made infamous by the first batch of torture images published in 2004. Some depict US soldiers driving a tank toward shackled prisoners, leading them to believe that they are about to die. Others show soldiers standing over the corpses of Afghan men. There is one photo of a soldier holding a pistol to the head of a shackled and hooded prisoner.

When the Abu Ghraib torture photos (a fraction of those taken) hit the headlines five years ago, they triggered a wave of anti-Americanism in the Arab world, but the revulsion was almost just as strong in Europe and back home in the US. The incident contributed greatly to the humiliation of the world's oldest democracy -- a worldwide beacon of freedom that had allowed islands of lawlessness and inhumanity to exist within its jurisdiction.

Disgraceful Chapter in American History

The photos that the Obama administration now wants to keep from the public apparently depict even more reprehensible, repulsive and inhumane images. There are allegedly photos of rape, of female prisoners being abused and sexual violence being committed against an underage male prisoner.

After viewing the photos, a member of the US Congress said that publishing them would inevitably spark new demands for an investigation into these atrocities.

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Of the 44 photos documenting a disgraceful chapter in American history, 21 were taken at US military bases in Afghanistan and Iraq. It is not yet known where and when the other 23 photos were taken. They

GINOBIFFARONI

Wednesday, May 20, 2009 8:43 PM

http://english.aljazeera.net/news/americas/2009/05/2009515211913607892
.html

Smalltown USA's Guantanamo hopes

Barack Obama has ordered the detention facility at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, to be closed by early next year, and as the fate of the remaining 240 prisoners is decided some could be moved to the US for trial or continued detention.

Al Jazeera's Rob Reynolds travelled to the town of Hardin in the US state of Montana to find out why it has offered to take in some of the detainees.

" They don't hate America, they hate Americans " Homer Simpson

Lets party like its 1939