Dems run away from Gitmo again
Bok, bok, bok. Another chicken run from Democrats who desperately do not want to talk about Obama’s Gitmo jihadi dump.
Sen. Jim Inhofe’s office reports on how the Dems blocked his Gitmo amendment:
Senate Democrats today blocked the effort of U.S. Sen. Jim Inhofe (R-Okla.) to consider his amendment that would permanently keep the military-run detention facility at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba (GITMO) open while preventing terrorist detainees from being transferred to the United States.
“President Obama and the Democrats’ obsession with closing GITMO is confounding,” Inhofe said. “I attempted to get the Senate to consider my very clear and straightforward amendment to the Defense Authorization bill that would have ensured that GITMO remained open and denied the transfer of terrorist detainees to the United States. Polls have shown that most Americans do not want to close GITMO, and certainly do not want these terrorist detainees to be transferred to the United States. A few days ago, my office announced a petition drive to get Oklahomans and Americans to support my effort to keep GITMO open. In that short amount of time, my office was inundated with tens of thousands of signatures to the petition. The fact that the Democrats have blocked my amendment defies the outspoken desire of these Americans.”
Inhofe continued, “The amendment I tried to offer is very similar to S.370, a stand-alone bill I offered to keep GITMO open. I will continue to pursue every available opportunity to achieve legislation that permanently keeps the facility open and closes the door to terrorist transfers.”
To learn more about the Inhofe petition to keep GITMO open, visit here.
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It should come as no surprise that Senate Democrats aren’t at all interested in what Americans want.
If Odopey wants to keep just one of his many campaign promises someone help him find that scalpel he seems to have misplaced.
My guess is that a big percentage of that ‘most Americans’ number voted for The Prez. They just don’t admit it. Same with a lot of other issues. Their shame must be keeping them up at night.
If I were a detainee, would I want to be held in gitmo, or a supermax with child molesters and murderers…..
Gitmo.
I can see an up side to this supermax thing. Bubba already has a life sentence and will do ANYTHING of a crate of cigerettes.
hhhmmmm….
Run Away? LOL
Now go away or I shall taunt you a second time!
Ah, yes, the scalpel. The one he said he was going to use on the federal budget to reduce the size of it.
Remember, it’s not what they say, it’s what they don’t say. He told us about the scalpel he would use to cut the budget. He didn’t tell us about the tons of fertilizer he would use to make sure the budget grew.
The supply of fertilizer increases every time he opens his mouth.
In the last 6 months who have we arrested, despite 2 wars? Is there any doubt the word from the Obama administration is to KILL all prisoners. Do libs actually prefer killing to GITMO? I think they do.
Democrats: “We don’t care what the Polish say! Oh, you meant the polls! Oh well, too late!”
As the jihadis are merely victims of poverty and Western Imperialism these Leftist scum have painted themselves into a corner haven’t they? They railed against Gitmo on political/moral grounds yet Supermax is for Criminals-and it seems BroBama tit is in a twist
BroBama and his minions ran their mouths-let them deal with it. For one I would tell the Republican leadership to keep quiet and let the Leftist fight among themselves. Be they here or Gitmo for the next four years the jihadis are BroBama’s problem.
WE are NOT going to turn MuslimLand into free style democracies-it is not in their universe to be so. The sooner we quit dealing with those people-develop our own energy the sooner we can be rid of muslims and start to rid ourselves of these Obaminations. GITMO is the least of our problems.
http://quotes.liberty-tree.ca/quotes_by/marcus+tullius+cicero
Anyone else think the socialists have crossed the line from dangerous goddamn fools to aiders and abettors, whether or not knowingly, of our enemy(ies)?
(Yes, I realize this may in fact not be the first time they may be considered to have crossed this line.)
I cannot disagree with you.
I cannot say you are wrong.
Whether it be official policy or just the fact that our soldiers are required to read captured prisoners their miranda rights, the result seems to be take no prisoners.
Works for me.
Speaking of scalpels, I seem to remember during the presidential campaign something Jesse Jackson said about using one on a certain part of Obama’s anatomy.
Over time the Democrats and especially Obama, concentrated their criticism of Bush on three major areas concerning the War on Terror:
1) GITMO
2) Interrogations
3) The conduct of the Iraq War, specifically The Surge
Their positions are a house of cards. The surge succeeded. Interrogations were not criminal, signed off by the Intell Committees, enhanced techinques were targeted, as well as limited, and produced important results. GITMO has turned out to be the best choice for a location and facility to house these terrorists.
Right now Obama is 0-2, because of what has come to light regarding The Surge and interrogations. If he can’t close GITMO, he will come off (correctly I might add) looking like someone who shot is mouth off and didn’t have a clue what he was talking about.
Also implied is that the Evil Booooosh and the Arch Fiend Cheney turned out to be pretty much on target with their decisions and management. If that happens the unhinged Left will tear him to shreds, long before the voters do.
Obama is in a poltical corner where he is now forced to do ANYTHING to close GITMO, because he can’t “lose” on this one. This will not be putting lipstick on a pig; it will be putting lipstick on a hippo.
The troops do have a way of crafting the best solutions in the field.
MM has liberal bloggers beat in the childish and angry writing category.
Gitmo has been a disaster for the international reputation of the United States. Closing Gitmo will make us safer. Given the polls you mentioned. The Democrats are showing courage to close it in the face of demagogues like Inhofe.
Guy at back of room raises his hand…
THE ONE has been following a pattern of lowering the costs for jihad against the US.
When you lower the cost of something, supply being constant, you raise the demand for it.
The world is more dangerous for US under THE ONE.
They crossed that line in 1968 and have been there ever since.
Frankly, my dear, I don’t give a flying phoc about what “international” thinks.
No need to ask just how. You’re an idiot, so nothing you say will be rational.
You mean, “Impose their collectivist silliness in the face of the expressed desires of the people they pretend to represent, and all good national security sense”.
Just go away.
That’s nothing more than the fallacious liberal belief that the rest of the world hates everything Republicans do as much as they do.
Whoa!!
The other day I time-traveled back to the 60s while reading a post….
Now, I watch, before my eyes, as infintity – in the form of infinite foolishness – is infinitely raised to the infinite power…by a mathematician, no less!
So, has infinity just been shown not to be infinte?
Have the world and, indeed, the cosmos been turned upside-down?
Will things now fall up if I let go of them?
Will the sun rise in the west tomorrow morning?
Will my watch run backwards?
Will I be a day younger tomorrow?
Well?
Bueller?
Anyone?
That’s why I said that this may not be the first time…I agree with you completely.
Name the number of times since September 2, 1945, that a Democrat Administration or Congress was willing to fight a war to win.
Answer……. ZERO.
I wonder why the “eastern bloc” communists were able to start the cold war in 1945 or shortly thereafter in the reasonably strong position that they were able to….
LGM: A couple of serious questions:
How?
How?
Provided that we line all the detainees up against the wall and execute them before leaving.
Yalta and Truman disarmed the U.S.
EXAMPLE: At the start of the Korean War, the U.S. Marines were so depleted they did not have one Marine Division. They stripped Marines from embassies world wide and took platoons straight out of basic with their DI’s. in order to form the First Marine Division.
A friend of my family was in one of those basic training platoons. He said within a month all the guys who did not listen in basic were dead or wounded.
When America is attacked again from recruits that the terrorists have trained, terrorists that the left wants to move to this nation, I’m taking a page from their playbook and suing them, all of them.
Personal injury or some other cause. Really, they deserve it.
That might require gathering up all the pieces…
Yep.
‘Course, you know I was “wondering” rhetorically….
No wonder they love the U.N.
Priorities…
lgm said:
Ok. So what happens after we move everybody to Supermax and it develops a bad international reputation? Do we close Supermax? Our international reputation is based on rumors not facts. The rumors will continue no matter where we house the terrorists.
When you have problems, you fix them. You don’t burn down the house and rebuild. Even Eric Holder says that the problems at Gitmo have been fixed. So the problem has been solved. If it aint broke, don’t fix it.
I didn’t think you’d answer, lgm. You’re just spouting off again, without a clue.
I doubt very much Papa Louie if LGM will answer that question. It does not answer very often and it never answers me. If he is worried about the reputation of the USA then maybe LGM could possibly take in a couple of Gitmo guys in his personal house. At least he could put them up in a nearby halfway house. Another thing none of the nations that are bothered by GITMO are offering to take any of the GITMO guys themselves.
lgm said:
That’s all you need to read of lgm’s post to know he’s lying. Next thing you know he’ll be talking about the courage of the French and the fearsome battle techniques of Code Pink…