BARACK OBAMA, President of the United States: By the authority vested in me as president -- as president by the Constitution and the laws of the United States of America, in order to effect the appropriate disposition of individuals currently detained by the Department of Defense at Guantanamo and promptly to close the detention facility at Guantanamo, consistent with the national security and foreign policy interests of the United States and the interests of justice, I hereby order.And we then provide the process whereby Guantanamo will be closed no later than one year from now.
OBAMA (chiseling in marble sound effect): In order to effect the appropriate disposition of individuals currently detained by the Department of Defense at Guantanamo, uh, and promptly to close the detention facility at Guantanamo consistent with the national security and foreign policy interests of the United States and interests of justice, I hereby order. And we then we will then, uh, provide the process whereby Guantanamo will be closed no later than, uh, one year from now. We will be... Uhhh.... Ummm.... Is there a separate executive order, Greg, with respect to how we're going to dispose of the detainees? Is that it, eh, uh, what we're doing?There's more!CRAIG: We'll set up a process!
OBAMA: We will be, uh, setting up a process whereby this is going to be taking place.
h/tOBAMA: What we're doing here is to set up a special interagency task force on detainee disposition. They are going to provide me with information in terms of how we are able to deal in the disposition of some of the detainees that may be currently in Guantanamo that we cannot transfer to other countries, who could pose a serious danger to the United States, uh, but, uh, we cannot try because of various problems related to evidence, uh, in a Article 3 court. So this task force is going to provide us with, uh, a series of recommendations on, uh, that. Is that correct, Greg?
CRAIG: That's right. And detainee policy going forward.
OBAMA: And detainee policy going forward so that we don't find ourselves in these kinds of situations, uh, in the future.
CRAIG: And there is clear guidance for the military as well.
OBAMA: And that we are providing clear guidance to our military in terms of having to do with it.
Now that was clear as mud. only a fool would put himself in such a stupid position as showing he knows nothing about what he's talking about! Uh, uh, uh, DUH!
Hey, you h/t'ed yourself. Who do you think you are, the Washington Post???
Hey, a guy's got to come through on his campaign promise to close Gitmo.
Switzerland has offered to take some of the bad guys.
Where do the rest go?
They'll figure that one out later.
Or as Caroline might say.... "youknow"
I Can't wait until he meets Achmadenijad and talks about nukes.
Could you see the strings?
Ready to govern from day one . . . uh . . . hundred and . . . uh . . . right?
Switched to the tele-uh-prompter, did he?
What a trainwreck...
And we have at least 4 years of listening to Tony Rezko's boy blustering his way through this disaster.
This is akin to having sex with a malevolent ghost. No one is really sure what happened, or what may happen next. So we are not really sure if we might have been screwed, are being screwed, or are gonna get screwed. Are we frightened yet?
The rubber is hitting the road like bald summer tires in Northern Ontario in January......
Democrat Congressman John Murtha of Pennsylvania has said that his state would welcome the Gitmo detainees since "they're just like any other prisoners". Unfortunately there are no Maximum Security prisons in his state to hold them.
I wonder how the citizens of Pennsylvania would feel about building one there just for them?
What. The hell?
Obama really is foolish.
Actaully I liked the suggestion of Laura Ingraham last night on O'Reilly.
She would put them in Barbara Streisand's neighbourhood!!
Or how about Robert Reford's quiet Sundance country? eh?
Translation:
We will close Gitmo and move the terrorists where the media can't follow and where I don't have to answer your questions.
Then I'll pretend there are no terrorists to the media while taking credit for making the eurotrash like us again.
This is so typical of the Utopian Left.
They want to get to "there" from here, without living in the here and now, and then pass a lwa that says we have to be "there" by such-and-such a time with no path to get there sketched out in detail.
This is why Zero is so popular.
It takes magic to get to "there" from here.
(especially when here is fantasyland)
After going to Rush's site to read this link,I noticed even funnier link there on the cadaver Larry King telling Bob Woodward that 'his eight year old son now wants to be black!'
I thought this cartoon appropriate (as well as funny).
http://www.jewishworldreview.com/toons/varvel/varvel.php3
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Good Lord, he's even dumber than I thought. Someone's got to keep the media away from him until he gets his lines memorized.
Ya, but ,uhm, you know, Bush was ,uhm, stupid,uhm right?
If it's Barack Obama's first order of business to shut down Guantanamo Bay, I hope we don't get stuck taking Omar Khadr back. But perhaps Omar could send me one of those souvenir club Gitmo T-shirts: “My Mullah went to Git-Mo and all I got is this lousy T- shirt”
Sammy, no problemo. If Eminem can do it then anyone can.
When I was eight I wanted to be an Indian because I thought Tonto was such a cool guy. When I grew older I found out it's a lot harder to be an Indian than a Negro.
(although Grey Owl and Ward Churchill managed the trick of it)
Chauncy Gardner votes present.
Sorry to go off topic Kate,but I'd rather listen to this guy than Obama.http//www.Maniacworld.com/are you going to finish strong.html
Larry King has an eight year old son?
WTF????? The guy is s shriveled old dinosaur!
The woman must have been staring at the bank statements to get through that one.
http://www.nytimes.com/2009/01/23/world/middleeast/23yemen.html?_r=2&partner=permalink&exprod=permalink
It is pretty bad when the NYT is talking about Gitmo grads without a "good Boy" tilt to the story. Looks like the undergrads have a halfway house to go to.
Note to self: if ever running for office all I have to have is a plan to make a plan, which of course is better than the other guy's plan.
Hmmm...and that stupid Sarah Palin who only cares about clothes and being a bimbo gave an excellent State of the State speech last night, which she apparently wrote. She also disagreed wtih Obama strongly, while being exceedingly gracious (which Obama could not even do to Bush on inauguration day).
www.conservatives4palin.com
Anne (not from Cornwall)wrote:
"Note to self: if ever running for office all I have to have is a plan to make a plan, which of course is better than the other guy's plan."
Mr Dion tried that in Canada...remember the "within the first 60 days I will sit down with experts...to make a plan..?" However, he got shown the door. I guess we learned from Trudeau...but not enough and not enough of us.
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Scary. I cannot believe that Obama is so inept that he flubs the oath of office and now appears to be completely lost without his handlers and teleprompter. God help us all.
(we can say God now, Obama does it so we can, too)
Hmmm...and that stupid Sarah Palin who only cares about clothes and being a bimbo gave an excellent State of the State speech last night, which she apparently wrote. She also disagreed wtih Obama strongly, while being exceedingly gracious (which Obama could not even do to Bush on inauguration day).
www.conservatives4palin.com
They'll be setting up a process?
Oh goody.
When I worked for the Feds back in the day, all of the bureaucrats I worked with/for loved "setting up processes." In fact, some of them had built entire careers setting up processes which were beautiful on paper.
But results? Not so much. Expecting their processes to actually produce tangible, measurable results was somehow demeaning to the whole, uh, process of setting up a process. It's beautiful all by itself! Can't you fools see that?
Whoever's "setting up the process" for emptying Gitmo will be rewarded for it handsomely. Whether it actually works or not will be moot.
And people wonder why I left government employ.
Garth
Obama to GOP: 'I won'
President Obama listened to Republican gripes about his stimulus package during a meeting with congressional leaders Friday morning - but he also left no doubt about who's in charge of these negotiations. "I won," Obama noted matter-of-factly, according to sources familiar with the conversation.
http://www.politico.com/news/stories/0109/17862.html
I've got a better idea than Laura Ingraham. Put the detainees in CONSERVATIVE neighbourhoods. They'd blow the mofo's heads off. End of problem, no chance of 're-offending', just swift cowboy justice.
NS,
Not only are we going to get Khadr back, we're going to give him millions. If there's a pool, put me down for $20M.
Why don't they simply unlock the gates, let them escape and let the Cuba's deal with them.
Then bulldoze the place and build a club med. How long's the lease?
Danggit Kate, you gona drive me to drinking early today, ;-)
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Visit Dust my Broom or Halls of Macedonia to see what released terrorists do.
favill -
Iggy's not much different, although he does not attest to actually having a plan to even making a plan, he's all about shooting down the other guy's plan. BTW, I'm surprised I have not heard any comments regarding Iggy's speech earlier this week, something to the effect of the liberals would be better in dealing with the US under Obama, like minded, etc, etc. How quickly they forget just how much harm the liberals did under Chretien for our relations (American bashing to no end, made me want to hide my head in shame).
Elizabeth - many thanks for the link to Conservatives for Palin. Gosh, she's quite a remarkable person. I liked also his outline of 'what is America'. thanks.
One year from now there will still be a gitmo and there will still be detainees in it. That is what the "process" will ensure.
The reason is that BO doesn't want two things to happen that would happen if he closed Gitmo:
1. media-soaked show trials in a US court trying to deal with this juristictional no-man's land showing all of america what a damn fool idea it was to close Gitmo.
2. Lots of video of many of those released from gitmo celebrating their reunion with there Al queda brothers on Al Jezeera and then replayed on Hannity and O'Reilly. (A third possible result - as opposed to these two certainties - is that one or more of these murderers will engage in another terror attack perhaps killing one or more americans thus putting the blood of americans on the hands of BO)
A lot of prevarication here.
At the end of the day he kept a campaign promise. The US has the penal and judiciary system to handle it as much as it can be handles.
Recall that a Bush appointee has determined one of the scumbags cannot be tried because he was tortured. Time to send them to the States for a legal trial and lock them away in ADX.
i'd laugh if it wasn't so damn pathetic.
fast freddy: "only a fool would put himself in such a stupid position as showing he knows nothing about what he's talking about!"
Boy, did Obama look frazzled and spooked signing whatever he was signing the other day. I think it's finally sunk in that this isn't a gig he can just cut and run from. I figure four years is looking like a mighty long and unfriendly corridor right now. Even if he runs, he can't hide. I ALMOST feel sorry for him. Being POTUS when you're a greenhorn ain't going to be a picnic -- for him, for the U.S., or for us.
set you free: "Switzerland has offered to take some of the bad guys. Where do the rest go?"
If the Troika of Twits has their way, Canada I guess, Toronto, to be precise. No doubt Moron Miller will be out with the welcome mat and welfare for them and their extended families. Maybe he'd like to host them in HIS neighbourhood rather than mine.
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CRAIG FOR PRESIDENT!
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"maryt says... Visit Dust my Broom or Halls of Macedonia
to see what released terrorists do."
"macedonia?"
geez, mary... sorta makes me feel like the low man on the
"scrotum" pole.
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I posted the other day, after reading an Obamination to Israel and HamASS, the boy uses a lot of words to say nothing. He has nothing to say because he doesn't underststand the "mechanisms" at work in these international situations.
Next thing you know he'll be conducting seances and talking to astrologers.
I saw the President sign this order on tv news chan and this is what I saw:
I saw a skinny fool dwarfed by his desk, dwarfed by his two sheets of typewritten text, dwarfed by the background of big guys in blue suits. I saw the US presidency reduced to a three stooges joke. I saw a lawyer give other lawyers jobs for life and a thumb in the eye of every other constituent save those lawyers and the loon left.
The picture though remains in my mind: a skinny fool, much like Doonebury's feather but less consequential, less important, and out of his depth.
This one will be easy.
So Switzerland wants some of the detainees - For what test subjects in that fancy cyclotron they are building?
Did I just see the big Owe searching for the PRESENT card?
Where do the rest go?
Quebec