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Sen. Webb reverses on Gitmo plans
2009-05-18
With Capitol Hill Republicans cranking up the volume on the issue of where to send alleged terrorists detained at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, Democratic Sen. Jim Webb (Va.) reversed himself Sunday, and questioned President Obama's "artificial timelines" for closing the facility.
The Dems won't wait to be thrown under the bus on this issue, they're bailing out themselves ...
Webb, appearing on "This Week with George Stephanopoulos" with Arizona Republican Sen. Jon Kyl, said that after reviewing Obama's plans to close the facility within one year, he doesn't agree with the president's time schedule and he opposes bringing any detainees to U.S. soil.

"We spend hundreds of millions of dollars building an appropriate facility with all security precautions in Guantanamo to try these cases," Webb said. "There are cases against international law. These aren't people who were in the United States, committing a crime in the United States. These are people who were brought to Guantanamo for international terrorism. I do not believe they should be tried in the United States."
That's quite a ray of sunshine for a Democrat ...
When pressed on the year deadline, Webb suggested the administration might have to be more flexible as it figures out where to send detainees. "They've said a lot of things and taken a look and said some other things," Webb said. "So let's process these people in a very careful way and then take care of it."

He added: "I think we should defer to the judgment of the administration who is looking at this. I think we all are moving toward the right direction. But we shouldn't be creating artificial timelines."
Posted by:Steve White

#7  He went Hollywood Washington DC - the Hollywood for ugly people.
Posted by: ed   2009-05-18 22:24  

#6  "Fields of Fire" was a good book. What happened?

-no kidding, he had the media pretty much pegged in that book.
Posted by: Broadhead6   2009-05-18 22:18  

#5  Thanks for that takedown Verlaine. I haven't seen the word 'beclownment' in quite awhile, and it was used most deftly here.
Posted by: Cynicism Inc   2009-05-18 19:24  

#4  "Fields of Fire" was a good book. What happened?
Posted by: bman   2009-05-18 18:22  

#3  A .22LR costs 2¢ and is more justice than the islamic terrorists deserve.
Posted by: ed   2009-05-18 06:57  

#2  In other words, it's not so easy when you're responsible, eh, Jimmy?
Posted by: Bobby   2009-05-18 06:17  

#1  Get lost Webb. Viet vet, Reagan SecNav, chronicler of pugnacious/awesome American Scott-Irish legacy, blah blah blah. You're a kook and a strategic imbecile on Iraq and no weasel words now will make you anything other than another bit-player in the national beclownment that occurred in November.

Bambi's moves re Gitmo (and almost everything else) are embarrassing, damaging, stupid blunders of the sort one would expect from an inexperienced and not-too-bright narcissist with a truly astonishing ignorance of history and world affairs.

Sadly, the backsliding and temporizing Webb and others just like him will muddy the waters and along with the absence of a real press will prevent Bambi from being harshly and fairly judged as unfit and unimpressive by the busy/ignorant/media-afflicted middle.

Posted by: Verlaine   2009-05-18 04:25  

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