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1. #1
   On July 24th, 2009 at 10:31 am, NJ-Aviator said:

   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.

   It should come as no surprise that Senate Democrats aren’t at all interested in what Americans want.

2. #2
   On July 24th, 2009 at 10:32 am, ajmontana said:

   If Odopey wants to keep just one of his many campaign promises someone help him find that scalpel he seems to have misplaced.

3. #3
   On July 24th, 2009 at 10:34 am, spaceycakes said:

   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.

   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.

4. #4
   On July 24th, 2009 at 10:36 am, sonofdy said:

   If I were a detainee, would I want to be held in gitmo, or a supermax with child molesters and murderers…..

   Gitmo.

5. #5
   On July 24th, 2009 at 10:37 am, sonofdy said:

   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….

6. #6
   On July 24th, 2009 at 10:40 am, behiker said:

   Run Away? LOL

   Now go away or I shall taunt you a second time!

7. #7
   On July 24th, 2009 at 10:40 am, backwoods conservative said:

   On July 24th, 2009 at 10:32 am, ajmontana said:

   If Odopey wants to keep just one of his many campaign promises someone help him find that scalpel he seems to have misplaced.

   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.

8. #8
   On July 24th, 2009 at 10:41 am, Mister P said:

   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.

9. #9
   On July 24th, 2009 at 10:41 am, Rogue Cheddar said:

   Democrats: “We don’t care what the Polish say! Oh, you meant the polls! Oh well, too late!”

10. #10
    On July 24th, 2009 at 10:49 am, ArizonaNeanderthal said:

    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.

11. #11
    On July 24th, 2009 at 10:49 am, granite said:

    “President Obama and the Democrats’ obsession with closing GITMO is confounding,”….

    Marcus Tullius Cicero:

    A nation can survive its fools, and even the ambitious. But it cannot survive treason from within. An enemy at the gates is less formidable, for he is known and carries his banner openly. But the traitor moves amongst those within the gate freely, his sly whispers rustling through all the alleys, heard in the very halls of government itself. For the traitor appears not a traitor; he speaks in accents familiar to his victims, and he wears their face and their arguments, he appeals to the baseness that lies deep in the hearts of all men. He rots the soul of a nation, he works secretly and unknown in the night to undermine the pillars of the city, he infects the body politic so that it can no longer resist. A murderer is less to fear. The traitor is the plague.

    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.)

12. #12
    On July 24th, 2009 at 10:51 am, granite said:

    On July 24th, 2009 at 10:49 am, ArizonaNeanderthal said:

    WE are NOT going to turn MuslimLand into free style democracies-it is not in their universe to be so.

    I cannot disagree with you.

    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.

    I cannot say you are wrong.

13. #13
    On July 24th, 2009 at 11:02 am, walterc said:

    Mister P said:

    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.

    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.

14. #14
    On July 24th, 2009 at 11:05 am, bradley said:

    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.

15. #15
    On July 24th, 2009 at 11:23 am, Flyoverman said:

    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.

16. #16
    On July 24th, 2009 at 11:25 am, Flyoverman said:

    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.

    The troops do have a way of crafting the best solutions in the field.

17. #17
    On July 24th, 2009 at 11:27 am, lgm said:

    Bok, bok, bok. Another chicken run from Democrats…

    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.

18. #18
    On July 24th, 2009 at 11:31 am, Ragspierre said:

    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)?

    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.

19. #19
    On July 24th, 2009 at 11:34 am, Flyoverman said:

    Anyone else think the socialists have crossed the line from dangerous goddamn fools to aiders and abettors

    They crossed that line in 1968 and have been there ever since.

20. #20
    On July 24th, 2009 at 11:35 am, Ragspierre said:

    Gitmo has been a disaster for the international reputation of the United States.

    Frankly, my dear, I don’t give a flying phoc about what “international” thinks.

    Closing Gitmo will make us safer.

    No need to ask just how. You’re an idiot, so nothing you say will be rational.

    Given the polls you mentioned. The Democrats are showing courage to close it in the face of demagogues like Inhofe.

    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.

21. #21
    On July 24th, 2009 at 11:39 am, backwoods conservative said:

    Gitmo has been a disaster for the international reputation of the United States.

    That’s nothing more than the fallacious liberal belief that the rest of the world hates everything Republicans do as much as they do.

22. #22
    On July 24th, 2009 at 11:42 am, granite said:

    Closing Gitmo will make us safer.

    The Democrats are showing courage to close it in the face of demagogues like Inhofe.

    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?

23. #23
    On July 24th, 2009 at 11:44 am, granite said:

    On July 24th, 2009 at 11:34 am, Flyoverman said:

    That’s why I said that this may not be the first time…I agree with you completely.

24. #24
    On July 24th, 2009 at 11:52 am, Flyoverman said:

    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.

25. #25
    On July 24th, 2009 at 12:02 pm, granite said:

    On July 24th, 2009 at 11:52 am, Flyoverman said:

    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….

26. #26
    On July 24th, 2009 at 12:07 pm, txvet2 said:

    LGM: A couple of serious questions:

    Gitmo has been a disaster for the international reputation of the United States.

    How?

    Closing Gitmo will make us safer.

    How?

27. #27
    On July 24th, 2009 at 12:21 pm, J S Ragman said:

    Closing Gitmo will make us safer.

    Provided that we line all the detainees up against the wall and execute them before leaving.

28. #28
    On July 24th, 2009 at 12:23 pm, Flyoverman said:

    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….

    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.

29. #29
    On July 24th, 2009 at 12:53 pm, madmonkphotog said:

    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.

30. #30
    On July 24th, 2009 at 12:56 pm, Ragspierre said:

    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.

    That might require gathering up all the pieces…

31. #31
    On July 24th, 2009 at 1:31 pm, granite said:

    On July 24th, 2009 at 12:23 pm, Flyoverman said:

    Yep.

    ‘Course, you know I was “wondering” rhetorically….

32. #32
    On July 24th, 2009 at 1:34 pm, Flyoverman said:

    On July 24th, 2009 at 1:31 pm, granite said:

    No wonder they love the U.N.

33. #33
    On July 24th, 2009 at 1:57 pm, Ragspierre said:

    Former Secretary of State Madeleine K. Albright on Thursday delivered some spectacular news to all Americans ashamed of their homeland: With President Obama now in office, you no longer have to pretend you’re not from the States when you summer in Europe.

    “It is nice to be popular, and I think that people feel better if we are liked, if, you know – Americans now don’t have to say they’re from Canada when they travel around,” the Clinton-era diplomat said to laughter from a roomful of reporters at the National Press Club.

    http://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2009/jul/24/global-obama-fans-outpace-local-ones/

    Priorities…

34. #34
    On July 24th, 2009 at 5:00 pm, Papa Louie said:

    lgm said:

    Gitmo has been a disaster for the international reputation of the United States. Closing Gitmo will make us safer.

    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.

35. #35
    On July 24th, 2009 at 7:03 pm, txvet2 said:

    I didn’t think you’d answer, lgm. You’re just spouting off again, without a clue.

36. #36
    On July 24th, 2009 at 11:11 pm, garydt said:

    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.

37. #37
    On July 26th, 2009 at 7:38 pm, Papa Louie said:

    lgm said:

    The Democrats are showing courage…

    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…