Close-Gitmo Dems won’t put money where their mouths are
File under feckless:
The Close Gitmo Democrats won’t fork over $50 million requested by the Obama administration to fund the transition/resettlement costs for detainees once the facility is shut down.
Maybe the White House can hold a jihadi relocation telethon.
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Aren’t they just going to give them ACORN-seized homes?
I’ll take all the detainee’s for a million…. just line em up along the back wall………
We won’t fund it, so you’ll just have to let them out into the streets!
A new batch of landscapers coming to a neighborhood near you.
Just make em all jump off the sears tower.
Since this is all symbolic, why not just put them in blue jumpsuits instead of orange, and leave them at their “human-induced, sun-drenched, ocean-view resort”?
or just make em Senators, could they do any worse?
Knock-knock….
“Yes, may I help you?”
“I am Al Kaeeda, your new neighbor. I just came over to borrow a cup of C4.”
release them from 50,000 feet over the dead center of the pacific ocean covered in pigs blood.
Problem solved.
By the time they get out, there won’t be a Sears Tower to jump off.
The Willis Tower, maybe.
OH MAH GOODNESS!! SOMETHING ELSE TO BAILOUT!!! ANOTHER $50 MILLION DOWN THE DUMPER!!!
My first thought – “Bruce Willis has a Tower?”
They’ll do it under the cover of darkness, and then blame Boooosh for making those innocent men become America-hating
democratsterrorists.Please take this poll.
50 mil? They can get that much out of Michelle O’s shoe budget without anybody noticing it’s gone.
Can we get a night in the Lincoln bedroom like Clinton used to hand out?
Jihadi relocation telethon, you say?
I believe Obama is both a Marxist and a Jihadist. I bet the degree of separation between him and the Gitmo detainees is a very small number. Our founding fathers did not think in terms of bringing an Empire to its knees. But Obama and the Gitmo detainees certainly do.
Yes, I’ve posted this material many times before, but it bears repeating.
Obama should set an example and let them move into the WH. They could watch his kids so that his MIL can move home. It would be like Charles in Charge, except with KSM instead of Scott Baio.
Michelle Obama = Imelda Marcos
lgm swooped and pooped on this a few threads ago. I asked him how many of the Uighurs he’d take, but he hasn’t gotten back to me on that yet.
For 6 long years these neo-Dem cowards have been bawling about closing Gitmo….and now just to prove their cowardice, they won’t fund what they have wanted for years. I don’t want it closed, but I do believe this shows just how cowardly and hypocritical these useless bags of political skin..aka..the Democrats, are to the country………
I was thinking we send them to Mexico for a week, then back to the White House for a States dinner with Obama and all the leading democrats. After that they can all fly back to CA with Pelosi on her plane and we can release them in Berkeley and or SF.
Hope they can all get their taxi licenses before Gitmo closes.
This is nothing more than another dog-and-pony show.
Some on the left pretend to oppose Hussein, but then will immediately turn around and give him what he wants.
And that’s the key phrase, what he wants, not what is good for this nation.
Dance, monkey, dance!
If the Dimocrats really care (which I do not believe) about these Jihadist thugs, and were not just using them as a club to beat up their opposition…
MAKE them publicly vote the funds to move them and house them.
That way, we’ll have a bloody shirt to plaster on each member of Congress who supports that horrific idea with our tax money when another American is killed by these pirates.
They could be stunt doubles for Achmed the Dead Terrorist. Of course we would have to kill them first. Silence!!
$167,000 per detainee? What do two 9mm rounds cost?
Elk Creek can probably contribute that many rounds as part of his inventory rotation.
Can’t we just march them to the gate into Cuba ? Or, let ‘em swim home. Can’t Al Qaeda afford plane tickets after 9/11 ?
plenty o’ sarc
OT- Michelle Malkin…Since Hot Air is a subsidiary site of yours…Can you enable the same User and passwords for those of us who want to comment there, as well ?
Thanx
Or Mr Belvedere, except instead of giving etiquette advice, he can dispense Sharia advice.
Isn’t Benson the obvious comaprison to make?
Ahhh Benson, the power behind an empty-headed politician. Played by Rahm Emmanuel ?
Yippeee-kay-ay….(sp?)
send them all to France.
(no reason, I just don’t like the French.)
I think it is obvious, Aloha, based on the huge sampling of (so far) 9 people, that your opinions on the topic of “Willis” lies far outside of mainstream America, as represented here. I am pretty sure this lands you on some Homeland Security extremist definition.
Perhaps Soap would be more appropo. Drama, intrigue, and alien abductions. Yup, fits the bill.
We’re giving the place back to Cuba. Just leave them there and let Castro figure out what to do with them.
Um, Dumbocrats, any politically unpopular decision is solely the responsibility of the Dumbocratic Congress and the Dumbocratic White House. It isn’t as easy as your squawking for the past eight years would suggest.
My mind went to the Bruce, too.
His agent would be sooooooo pleased…
Branding is everything…
Where is lgm? Is this not his favorite subject?
Get them all jobs at Jimmy Dean grinding pork for sausage.
Nakatomi Plaza.
“Bruce” is making a comeback in the poll.
This cannot stand.
Come on “Whatchoo talkin bouts.” Make your voice heard. It only lets you vote once, but I am pretty sure that if you delete your cookies, it would let you vote again. Like in Ohio.
I resemble that remark.
The One already said that he closed Gitmo in his first hundred days. What is this all about?
Given the daily news, I do all I can to keep from tossing my cookies..
Wrong software. You can use Minnesota’s updated version of the Washington State software though. That lets you make up the results you want.
I am off for the night.
I know Aloha doesn’t believe me, but I really am in an internetless exile at nights.
When I come back, I expect “Whatchoo” to be winning handily. Come on people. I can only vote so many times.
Club me for asking the obvious…
What difference would it make where they are detained???
I thought Murtha wanted them. Maybe the “red necks” in his district can pass the ball cap around to raise the funds to move them.
Put them up on a ‘Dunk Tank’ & charge 25 cents per baseball to toss.
They’d make a ton of money. We might not ‘dunk’ them, but we’d sure throw a lot of balls…
If they hit US soil, there is a strong argument that we have to extend the same protections that any US citizen accused of a crime enjoys.
That is a HUGE mistake, and runs counter to historical treatment of…say…enemy spies. Which is more analogous to what these mokes are, rather than criminals or POWs.
I’ll defer to the lawyers to explain the details, but it seems to me that bringing them onshore would more than likely require giving them full “constitutional” treatment – and it’s unlikely anybody’s “Mirandized” them. Much, or most of the evidence against them would be tossed, and it’s unlikely that we could deport them after we couldn’t convict them in a civilian court. It’s also practically impossible to deport them, because nobody else wants them either. That means they wouldn’t be incarcerated – they’d be footloose and fancy free on the sidewalks of a city near you. Just my opinion, of course.
It seems to me that one of the main reasons for detainment is never even mentioned, much less debated. Prisoners of war/enemy combatants are seldom if ever released until the war is over. It isn’t a matter of trials and rights.
Far more feckless is the following from the linked article -
“However, money could be transferred later—without a politically challenging vote—if it were needed to move the detainees.”
But, again, these guys are not analogous to POWs. They are much more like enemy spies, who I think were tortured, and I KNOW were summarily executed historically. GB turned several captured Germans, for instance, with a simple choice: turn or die.
As is more than likely done far more frequently than anyone imagines.
Once again, I don’t know the legal aspects of this, but if they were captured on the battlefield, which includes pretty much the entirety of the M.E., that still puts them pretty much in the enemy combatants category. Not like terrorists in this country, which I would also lump in pretty much the same category as espionage agents. Spies (and war criminals, for that matter) did get trials, however, even if they were military and much less controlled by civilian rules of evidence and procedure.
Some spies got trials.
I think that blonde from “Moonlighting” probably has pretty extremist views of Willis.
I haven’t heard of many cases in this country where anybody was summarily executed – except, of course on the battlefield and one instance during the Clinton Administration, but they were religious cultists, so they were fair game.
I don’t pretend to be an authority, but…
“enemy combatant” is a term of art. It has a defined meaning. These guys do not fit the conventions.
We could always return them in similar condition to how they treat us…sans heads…
For you folks in Rio Linda that means without heads attached…
Since, they ARE non-uniformed; the Geneva Conventions do NOT apply here.
Nor does the convention on civilian treatment.
Yeah, I was thinking in terms of POW, and given that most of the guys we’re fighting in the M.E. don’t wear uniforms, they pretty much all fit in the “irregular” category. But since we’re not making any practical distinction that I’ve been able to see between military and non-military combatants (even though we should), it seems that treating them all as POWs would be more consistent. I take it you’d consider them all to be under the same general umbrella as resistance fighters – spies, saboteurs, etc.
And the penalty for being one in war-time is death; as soon as practicable.
Rod—jor!!!
While that is legally true, it hasn’t been Bush Administration policy. I agree these people actually have no rights under international law, but our government doesn’t see it that way.
Another unfunded federal mandate,maybe. Relocate them to red state areas and force the states to pay for them. Free housing, health care, education (if desired), and a nice monthly stipend to spend on their hobbies.
Kind of like, Hamas…The Hamas terrorist hides behind a baby carriage to shoot while, an Israeli stands in front of one.
We extended them due process that no law compels.
That’s the kind of monsters we are….
Please ? With sugar on top ?
I’ll take some…If a few of us volunteer…
Heh
If they were housed in a Texas prison with the Aryan Brotherhood, maintaining them would not be an issue for long.
But one fear is that, if they are housed in most American prisons, and cannot be segregated (ACLU), they will be effective recruiters.
The court of public opinion – where no law applies, only “feelings”.
Under responsible and mature leadership yes. Under this administration – a “get out of jail free” card, a genuine embossed certificate of apology signed by TEH ONE (suitable for framing), and all the afformentioned benefits I mentioned in a prior response.
Seriously…I have some interesting ideas under the heading of, ” Relocation Assistance ”
I was thinking of letting them go free on a few Hill Country hunting ranches, to take pressure off of the local deer herd…..They’d be a lot more sport than shooting deer eating at a feeder.
I havta figure they’d get “sported” pretty hard by the prison gangs…
Yes, they would, as has been the case already with domestic criminals of their ilk.
These terrorists are neither criminals, subject to the Constitution’s rights, or POWs. If they are released, expect more people to die. What happens if they are captured again? Give them U.S. citizenship?
I don’t have any 9mm. My daughter has some 9mm but not enough to do the job. What I have the most is 7.62x54R and 7.62x38R. If we used that and buried them anywhere it could be blamed on the Stalinists in 1941. My only other option is to reload a lot of black powder ammunition in .45 Colt and 12 gauge brass, a lot of times.
However, I much prefer that they be given the opportunity to swim to freedom in Cuba with the US Navy providing chum in the water. “There was a terrible accident during the First Annual Jihadist Trialathon in Guantanamo Bay. None of the participants survived the first leg, the ocean swim.”
See? Easy!
ECS
But PP would object.
We are supposed to be a civilized nation, dontcha know…
Hey, Elm…
I think there’s only about 200 left.
If they were lined up right…
spaceycakes #49,
Can we exchange the water with swine blood? Please, please, please…
ROTFLMAO
The more I’ve considered Elm’s idea, the more it appeals…
provided that each Triathlete is equipped with a pigskin Speedo…
Nah, you’ve got it wrong – it’s “Thank you sir! May I have another?!”
Stone-Age Democrat…
True, they do LOVE those college hi-jinks…
Release them all. Make them part of a reality show where they have to drive from El Paso to Texarkana in pink Volvo’s with a “Honk if you love the Ayatollah” and “I (heart) Sharia Law” bumper sticker.
First car to make it to Texarkana wins.
Better yet…
A Gitmo released prisoner AND an ACLU attorney per car.
Put them in D.C.
If they are harmless it shouldn’t be a problem, right?
Make it THREE ACLU attornies and a GITMO detainee driver – in SMART cars : ).
Eww… a three-fer…
effecient…
Under Republican leadership in the War on Terror, America’s non-aligned enemy combatants were housed at the Guantanamo Bay Detention Center, commonly referred to as “Gitmo.”
Now the Democrats have regained power, and has authority over those poor, abused, misunderstood, and not yet proven to be “enemy combatants”…
it is only fair that we rename said detention center with a name which is more reflective of their ideology. How about “Guano?”
GUAN
t-a-n-a-m-O…it is only fair that we rename said detention center with a name which is more reflective of their ideology. How about “Guano?”
Awright!!! Paging Col. Bat Guano! We’ve got a job for you!
It ain’t all good yet Obama will restart Military Commissions, protect secrets during civil suits by former detainees, fight extending habaes to Bagram detainees, keep eavesdropping on the enemy without FISA court approval … when will the MSM start referring to him as ‘Bush-light’?
The penguins and walruses took a vote. The good news is Antarctica has no objections to taking all current Gitmo detainees. The best news is they want them delivered on the first day of summer in the northern hemisphere. I’m willing to contribute $1,000 to help pay their way.
It’s a Fix….This way O can vote present….his hands are tied blah lie blah lie blah
Was that Vince Foster?