article.nationalreview.com - 11/16/2008
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Gitmo was never the problem, and closing it will not solve anything.
washingtonpost.com - 11/15/2008
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washingtonpost.com —
The Associated Press Sunday, June 24, 2007; 8:21
PM SAN ANTONIO -- Barack Obama told a Texas
crowd on Sunday that he wants the Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, detainee facility closed _ a step the Bush administration is considering. The Democratic presidential ...
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Obama Says Gitmo Facility Should Close
examiner.com - 11/20/2008
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End of the cruise
Power Line —
... Long Knives.") Bill McGurn was President Bush's chief speechwriter. He made a heartfelt defense of President Bush, testifying to his affection and admiration for him.
6. The speakers included conservative stars such as Mark Steyn, Victor Davis Hanson, Jonah Goldberg, Andrew McCarthy, Byron York and Bernard Lewis. It's a hard working group. Among the columns that appear to have been written on the cruise are Professor Hanson's "The same old change," McCarthy's "Obama and Gitmo" and Goldberg's "Keep right."
7. Byron York debarked early and ...
The Audacity of Patience
RedState: Conservative News and Community —
... A couple of weeks ago, I wrote this article imploring the incoming administration — before digging themselves in any further with more cavalier promises to shut down the detention facility at Guantanamo Bay — to develop a concrete plan tackling the problem that, you can bet the ranch, applies to the majority of the 250 or so enemy combatants we are still holding: namely, what to do with detainees we know are terrorists based on reliable intel but whom we (a) don’t have enough usable evidence against to prove guilt beyond a reasonable doubt in ...
The Audacity of Patience
RedState: Conservative News and Community —
... A couple of weeks ago, I wrote
this
article imploring the incoming administration — before digging
themselves in any further with more cavalier promises to shut down
the detention facility at Guantanamo Bay — to develop a concrete
plan tackling the problem that, you can bet the ranch, applies to
the majority of the 250 or so enemy combatants we are still
holding: namely, what to do with detainees we know are terrorists
based on reliable intel but whom we (a) don't have enough usable
evidence against to prove guilt beyond a reasonable doubt in a ...
McCarthy: Welcome to the Real World, Mr. President-elect
Articles on National Review Online —
I t is impossible for someone who has demagogued a complex problem to transform the overheated campaign cant into responsible principles of governance. When it comes to Guant namo Bay and the wartime detention of alien enemy combatants there, demagoguery is exactly what candidate Barack Obama (and top aides like Eric Holder) engaged in. Now, as some of us forewarned , the inevitable damage control effort is underway. Obama s Gee, this is harder than I thought shuffle which, in his trademark rhetorical habit of insulting the audience s intelligence, is couched as if it ...
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Obama reaches out to former rivals —
msnbc.com: Politics 11/16/2008
As he forms his new team, President-elect Barack Obama is pledging to reach out to past rivals such as Hillary Rodham Clinton and Republicans. What does the past tell us about such lofty intentions?
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