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| B.O. vows to exit Iraq, shut down Gitmo |
| 2008-11-18 |
| In his first major post-election interview, with CBS program "60 Minutes," President-elect Barack Obama vowed to pull troops out of Iraq, crush al-Qaeda in Afghanistan and shut down the Guantanamo Bay camp as part of a dramatic foreign policy break with George W. Bush. |
| Posted by:Fred |
| #22 The answer is obvious. Make them residents of Chicago, then US citizens, then kill them so they can vote Democrat in the next election. |
| Posted by: rjschwarz 2008-11-18 17:40 |
| #21 Catch and Release, yes Rahm and friends are definately on board! Abdallah Saleh Ali Al Ajmi (b. August 2, 1978 – April 26, 2008) was a Kuwaiti citizen, who was held in extrajudicial detention in the United States Guantanamo Bay detainment camps, in Cuba. His Guantanamo detainee ID is 220. Joint Task Force Guantanamo counter-terrorism analysts reports that he was born on August 2, 1978, in Almadi, Kuwait. On September 2, 2003 attorneys Thomas Wilner, Neil H. Koslowe, Kristine A. Huskey, and Heather Lamberg Kafele filed a Petition for writ of Certiorari on behalf of Al Ajmi and eleven other Guantanamo detainees. In March of 2008, following his release, Al Ajmi took part in three suicide bomb attacks in Iraq. He was reported to have been killed in one of these or a subsequent bombing. In April 2008 Al Ajmi was reported to have conducted a suicide attack in Iraq Neil H. Koslowe Harvard University, Law School, J.D. 1969 Yeshiva University, B.A., 1966, magna cum laude Heather Lamberg Kafele Georgetown University, J.D. Macalaster College, B.A. Kristine A. Huskey JD 1997, University of Texas at Austin BA 1992, Columbia University The above all loyal soldiers of Shearman & Sterling LLP, an firm with a ....."diverse membership." |
| Posted by: Besoeker 2008-11-18 14:39 |
| #20 We can't send many of them back to their home country because many have death sentences waiting for them there - so say the same leftards who are braying to shut down gitmo. Way to go NOOBama. |
| Posted by: Rex Mundi 2008-11-18 12:46 |
| #19 "Vowed", did he? Color me unimpressed. Did they get it in writing? |
| Posted by: mojo 2008-11-18 11:34 |
| #18 Freeze them, and "promise" to "thaw them out when we find a cure..." |
| Posted by: M. Murcek 2008-11-18 11:30 |
| #17 "Prison? I was thinking they might get a position in his administration." good one S and T lol |
| Posted by: Jan from work 2008-11-18 10:59 |
| #16 He'll first have his staff label them as lobbyists in their field of endeavor, then hire them to work his administration on the premise that they won't 'lobby' for 2 years... |
| Posted by: logi_cal 2008-11-18 10:57 |
| #15 send them home whether they want them or not , their citizens their problem and just maybe they will get the justice they deserve |
| Posted by: chris 2008-11-18 10:40 |
| #14 "What do you do with the Gitmo inmates when their nations either don't want them, or are likely to torture them to death?" I'd tell you what I would do with them RJ, but there would be certain whiners here that would lash out. A permanent solution to these scumbags is the only real solution. |
| Posted by: Woozle Elmeter 2700 2008-11-18 10:34 |
| #13 Send them back to their respective countries. That would be a far worse fate for them than anything we could do. Many have been cleared, but no country will accept them. |
| Posted by: bigjim-ky 2008-11-18 10:05 |
| #12 Obama will release the Gitmo prisoners in Chicago. He'll extract an agreement whereby they must promise to behave and to vote Democrat. Bill Ayers will put up a bunch of them at his house. He'll find they share a common view of the USA. |
| Posted by: DMFD 2008-11-18 08:53 |
| #11 Good idea Ed. I hear the property taxes are |
| Posted by: Besoeker 2008-11-18 08:01 |
| #10 He'll just let them loose in the US. WRT Iraq, of course he'll leave, it's over. Why not leave EUrope, Japan, and SKor too? |
| Posted by: Spot 2008-11-18 08:00 |
| #9 Take them to the Hyde Park islamic rest and refit center. |
| Posted by: ed 2008-11-18 07:59 |
| #8 There's a host of things Obama cannot do. This is one he CAN. Rest assured, he'll close GITMO and bask in the headlines. What he'll do with these buggers is anyone's guess. |
| Posted by: Besoeker 2008-11-18 07:54 |
| #7 just put a gun in their hands and released them in a kindergarten in their hometowns or MY hometown! |
| Posted by: Glenmore 2008-11-18 07:40 |
| #6 Prison? I was thinking they might get a position in his administration. |
| Posted by: Shalet and Tenille1168 2008-11-18 02:36 |
| #5 What will happen is the Federal Government will build a prison facility in Detroit to hold the guys who should be put to death. All politics is local. It's all about jobs. |
| Posted by: Penguin 2008-11-18 02:04 |
| #4 The Gitmo detainees will reportedly be transferred to CONUS? ION OBAMA > WAPO OP-ED by GEORGE WILL = SOCIALISM? ITS ALREADY HERE! |
| Posted by: JosephMendiola 2008-11-18 01:04 |
| #3 Are any of these guys really in a position to be a problem anymore? It might be better to either deport them to a place where the natives will take good care of them, like Beslan, or just put them back in Pakistan where they will do something stupid and get killed five minutes after they are released. Or maybe Antarctica. Maybe I'm wrong, but it seems they would do more damage to our intelligence collection methods if they were tried in civilian courts than if someone just put a gun in their hands and released them in a kindergarten in their hometowns. |
| Posted by: gorb 2008-11-18 00:55 |
| #2 I was wondering the same thing. Although explaining this problem would require the media to explain why they have never brought up the problem before. |
| Posted by: phil_b 2008-11-18 00:27 |
| #1 What do you do with the Gitmo inmates when their nations either don't want them, or are likely to torture them to death? I'm not sure Obama has thought it through. On the bright side as least the media and left will give him a pass on whatever happens. |
| Posted by: rjschwarz 2008-11-18 00:07 |