Obama just extended by six months a review of some 240 terror suspects at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba - now just halfway finished - putting in jeopardy his campaign promise to close the U.S. military detention facility by January. The Department of Justice and Department of Defense announced that the Detention Policy Task Force will not submit its report for another six months .
Will someone please tell me how do you release a review of how dangerous the remaining prisoners are and then close the facility in just a few days? Man, that would take a tremendous number of lies and bribes to foreign states to take these dangerous terrorists. By then 0bama should be running short of lies and he's already run short of money.
But, but, but I thought we needed to close Gitmo immediately to show the rest of the world that we're their friends now and it's okay to like us again.
Obama is as clueless as any man has ever been in this government. The only people more clueless than he is are those freekin' Morons who voted for him!
This is what happens when one is willing to say ANYTHING to get elected... This is just further evidence that the Messiah is incompetent...
End the War in Iraq- nope
Close Gitmo- nope
Free Health Care for All- nope
Fix the Economy- nope
Better relations with Russia- nope
Solve the Iranian issue- nope
Hold unemployment in check- nope
Shovel ready projects- nope
Transparency in legislation- nope
Green energy panacea- nope
No lobbyists in administration- nope
New basketball court in White House- check
Fly in a Pizza Chef for 25 people- check
Buzz the Skyscrapers in New York City for a photo op - check
Why close Gitmo!It has worked all these years. The prisoners are living better than they have at home.We have made some mistakes and apologized for them.Why do we have to keep spending money that we do not have!! Why not change the name of Gitmo to Kenya?
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- I’m just a retired Soldier ( retired, NOT tired) who does not like seeing my Country torn apart by people that don’t give a damn about it. I went into the Army at the age of 19 and stayed in for 20 years. Never regretting one day of it. I saw lots of places, I met lots of people and learned lots of things. The main thing that I learned is that there is NO place in the world like America. I Love this Country, and I'll fight tooth and nail to defend this great country, anytime and any place. ... I will fight again, and again, anytime to keep her strong and free.
They can’t understand why I cheer for the military. They can’t understand why I’m in favor of this war.
Well, My generation had Vietnam. My generation had 9-11. My generation has Iraqi and Afghanistan and Iran.
And they can’t understand that.
I see liberals every day on TV. I see journalists like Katie Couric, Sam Donaldson, and Peter Jennings talking about a “quagmire.” I see celebrities like Alec Baldwin, Ed Asner, and Danny Glover talking about how they’re ashamed of America. I see anti-war protesters, some my age still sticking with their parent’s beliefs, equating my President to Hitler. I see Vietnam Vets, like the man in my office, saying we should keep our military at home, and worry about protecting our own land, and not worry about what’s happening in the rest of the world. And I see Democrats, calling for a regime change, and urging us to put our safety in the hands of the strangers at the UN.
They do not represent my generation. The Greatest Generation is gone. The Baby Boomers are a setting sun. Generation X is dead. But Generation 9-11 is alive and well. I woke up on September of 2001, as did many others like me. We have to live with losing friends and loved ones that day. We have to live with being cautious every day after. We have to live with sacrificing some of our freedoms for the greater safety of others.
This is the dilemma we see every day. Me, and others like me, want to trust our government. We want our troops, who have selflessly volunteered to fight for us, to go wherever the terrorists are hiding, and kill them before they can kill us. We want our Homeland Security to tell us to be careful. We want to believe our President is doing what’s best for us.
My parent’s generation wants to recapture the 50's.
Some still live in those days of Richard Nixon when the government was corrupt.
My generation wants America to be right. And we believe we are.
This is our world war. My grandparent’s had Germany and Japan. We have Afghanistan and Iraq, not to mention Iran and North Korea. We are all soldiers, and we are all patriots. We fight every day, not only against those who wish to do us bodily harm, but those who wish to do us mental and spiritual harm as well. We fight against anti-war ideals and isolationism, which have never worked. We fight against a media inundated with negativity. We fight against politicians who wish to sell us out to the UN. And we fight against the sixties generation and their disciples, who still believe we are not at war.
But it is war. It’s a different kind of war. It’s not the kind our parent’s grew up with and it’s not the kind they can understand. But me and my generation, we’re coming to understand it very well.
So when this man, who works in my office, looks at me and says “You don’t know what it’s like.” I can’t help but think…
He’s got it backwards.