Comments on: The votes are in: No Gitmo terrorists in our backyards

By: janis

janis — Mon, 11 May 2009 14:30:01 +0000

I think the detainees would probably prefer Gitmo. Lord knows the winters in Cuba are kinder than in Montana, and, if you escaped in Montana, your odds of passing for a native are pretty low compared to Cuba. Besides, I was in Montana a couple of years ago and you would be hard pressed to find a place bristling with more American flags and guns than that state.

By: realityunwound

realityunwound — Mon, 11 May 2009 14:03:35 +0000

finish a thought. My bad

By: realityunwound

realityunwound — Mon, 11 May 2009 14:02:47 +0000

What I can’t, for the life of me, understand, is why there is this HUGE disconnect between what people seem to think of his policies, and what people seem to think of him. I’m increasingly reading about people thinking his ideas are bad or dangerous, but his poll numbers are steady as the mail. I don’t get it.

By: gekster

gekster — Mon, 11 May 2009 02:32:57 +0000

By: 6eorge Jetson

6eorge Jetson — Mon, 11 May 2009 02:28:49 +0000

By: 6eorge Jetson

6eorge Jetson — Mon, 11 May 2009 02:22:32 +0000

Why not?

By: $peciallist

$peciallist — Mon, 11 May 2009 00:21:28 +0000

well done

By: antisocial

antisocial — Mon, 11 May 2009 00:16:41 +0000

Once they experience the joy of living in a free and civil world they will be reformed. And….. that will send a message to the world about the greatness of this nation. Everybody will stop hating America… Then the troops will come home. Everybody will live happily ever after……

By: avgamerican

avgamerican — Sun, 10 May 2009 23:39:12 +0000

I was trying to reply to IJB, I must have twice clicked the wrong reply. But anyway, I have to agree more with IBJ on this. Polls may not be enough to curb BHO. As I told a friend, the Jeremiah Wright video should have been the end of BHO. It wasn’t and in fact his popularity soared past Hillary. These are different times. I am willing to say later and hopefully will say I was wrong about this assessment.

By: bs

bs — Sun, 10 May 2009 23:20:54 +0000

Last week I was reading a book about the 70s, and the similarities really are stunning. President Fluffy couldn’t get closer to Carter if he was trying on purpose.

By: avgamerican

avgamerican — Sun, 10 May 2009 23:18:43 +0000

That’s what made this election feel eerily different to me. A combination of a mysterious popularity of a blind electorate and a marxist candidate equals what?
Now that he has almost complete power, do Americans think he will be controlled by the polls?

By: avgamerican

avgamerican — Sun, 10 May 2009 23:02:30 +0000

That’s my view. What made this election feel different to me was how this guy could get elected in the first place. And right I don’t believe BHO will be moved by polls. That’s what makes him so dangerous. A combination of mysterious popularity by blind Americans and a marxist candidate. What does that equal?

By: avgamerican

avgamerican — Sun, 10 May 2009 22:54:58 +0000

I think the USA is the only country in the world ever charged with the responsibilty for the welfare of its enemies. Geneva Convention rules are only applied to USA directly and bureaucratically and cowardly ignored by the UN and others. You’re simple logic is the 1,000 lb gorilla in the room, the left can’t grasp.

“Speak softly, but carry a big stick.”

Theodore Roosevelt

By: blooch

blooch — Sun, 10 May 2009 21:58:52 +0000

for adoring Nation of Islam inmates, and their wonderful transformation from terrorists to teachers will be gushingly reported in the MSM. Any incidents of their martyrdom at the hands of Aryans will just crank up the Mumiacs.

By: mom2oneson

mom2oneson — Sun, 10 May 2009 13:41:40 +0000

Why is it our responsibility if their home country wants them or not. If their home country doesn’t let them in that isn’t our responsibility. Why do we care about their long term stability when they are the bad people that attacked our soldiers.

By: bk

bk — Sun, 10 May 2009 13:12:51 +0000

Bush’s plan was to keep the bad guys there, get a little tough with a couple of them, and release the ones to other countries he could.

Other than saying he won’t waterboard, I haven’t heard that much different from Obama. He says he’ll close it, but he has no plan to do so and says that they can’t all get released. Uh okay, what then?

I like the response from France or Germany or wherever it was. Obama asked them to take some of these scum and they said, “If they’re not terrorists, why don’t you just let them live in the US?” EXACTLY!

By: bk

bk — Sun, 10 May 2009 13:09:28 +0000

They can’t get involved in any plots to damage major oil facilities there, and they can help celebrate the new “Islam Day”.

By: kyle8

kyle8 — Sun, 10 May 2009 12:47:35 +0000

Its like Deja Voodoo all over again.

By: antisocial

antisocial — Sun, 10 May 2009 05:55:01 +0000

and Iranian Revolution… I am stunned by the similarity in terms of so-called morals, friendliness and stupid foreign policy.

I hope Afghanistan and GWOT does not end up like Iran revolution…. With Carter on steroids that is definitely a possibility.

I don’t think releasing terrorists into US is going to happen. First of all this is unconstitutional. This administration doesn’t care much about constitution but I think that will be a move with extremely high political price. Also in a largely unnoticed event Senators Lamar Alexander of Tennessee and Richard Shelby of Alabama turned up the heat last week on the GITMO terrorist release and torture investigations.

http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2009/05/07/holder-says-terrorists-wont-set-free/

http://senatus.wordpress.com/2009/05/09/alexander-asks-holder-to-investigate-members-of-congress-on-interrogation-tactics/

By: ajl_mo

ajl_mo — Sun, 10 May 2009 02:22:14 +0000

http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=103545840
Hardin, Mont., Eyes Guantanamo Detainees
All Things Considered, April 27, 2009 · Officials in Hardin, Mont., want the Two Rivers Regional Detention Facility, their brand-new, but empty jail, to be the new home for terrorism suspects from the U.S. detention center in Guantanamo Bay, Cuba. Greg Smith, executive director of Two Rivers Authority, says the transfer could create jobs in the community.

Here’s a link from a MT TV station
http://www.kulr8.com/news/local/43501597.html