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As far as I know, this is a fairly standard thing to do during a transition. ....
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In terms of his dealings with national security, the man's first day in office was not spent ensuring our people in the military have adequate funding, or whatever they need to ensure success of their mission. Instead his first day in office was spent fighting for rights of our enemy combatants at Gitmo. He decided to use his first day to misuse the executive order to protect enemies of this country. That is not a standard thing any President has ever done. |
Take that junk to freeperville. It's just laughable here.
That excuse to keep gitmo open died years ago. Get new material. |
Sadly enough, only a Democrat wouldn't be able to figure out the negative consequences of releasing enemy combatants while at war against them. Most of these people were found in Afghanistan armed to the teeth, fighting alongside Taliban wackos against our soldiers. This will indeed increase the chances of another attack against our interests, or more coalition soldiers dead at the hands of these psychos. But I'm sure none of that is important to you. Like Mr. Obama seemingly, you see no dangers.
You're more worried about how we treat them than what dangers they pose to us. And you give primary concern as to what some of the whiny Europeans think of us, rather than what we should do to ensure our own security. I guess we should get used to the old "sweep it under the rug" policy. Change and Hope???? Yeah...change back to the 90's. And only hope for the enmy terrorist combatants. In regards to the relevance of the material, National Security is never an old or obsolete concept. And there are many well reasoned arguments to keep Gitmo open, and there are virtually no good arguments to close it other than the usual "we'll be more respected by the whiners of the world" nonsense. Unfortunately, you guys on the left never seem to get it. Nor do any of you seem to be students of history. I am saddened if the results of this lead to more U.S. casualties. I'm worried because this single action is likely to lead to more danger.