scrappleface.com - 1/13/2009
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(2009-01-13) — As news broke that Barack Obama reportedly plans to issue an executive order on his first day in office closing the U.S. terrorist detention center at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, Democrat governors across the country lobbied Mr. Obama for the privilege of welcoming the remaining ...
jihadwatch.org - 1/14/2009
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jihadwatch.org —
This shouldn't surprise anyone, since nothing is done
at Guantanamo to disabuse inmates of their beliefs about...
the responsibility of Muslims to wage war against and subjugate unbelievers. The prevailing PC "Islam Is A Religion of Peace" line prevents ...
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Pentagon: 61 ex-Gitmo inmates have returned to jihad
crooksandliars.com - 1/14/2009
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crooksandliars.com —
Obama is apparently sticking to his Sunday claim
that it could take more than 100 days to...
shutter America's Shame. But after an outcry from civil liberties groups, human rights advocates and many of his own supporters he is now also saying (or ...
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Closing Gitmo
acus.org - 1/14/2009
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acus.org —
Whether by mischievous intent or happy coincidence, mere
hours after Obama people announced that he would order...
the Guantanamo Bay detention facility closed , the Bush administration announced that 61 former detainees had returned to terrorism read ...
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Freed Gitmo Inmates Return to Terrorism
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Stand In Line
Neptunus Lex —
... practice of using “signing statements” to amend legislation.
For the most part, the home countries of Guantanamo detainees either do not desire to repatriate them, or will only do so in hopes of efficiently torturing them to death. Since some standards do apply, even in what’s left of George W. Bush’s amerika, that means they’ll have to settle elsewhere. Probably here.
Where, Scott Ott assures us, they’ll probably be very welcome:
As news broke that Barack Obama reportedly plans ...
You Can’t Make This Stuff Up
Neptunus Lex —
... Earlier in the month, Scott Ott wrote a piece of satire on his Scrappleface site, saying that public officials were lining up to import Guantanamo terrorists. ...
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