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Wednesday, May 06, 2009
Rich Galen :: Townhall.com Columnist
Obey Didn't Obey Obama
by Rich Galen
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House Democrats broke up Barak Obama's perfect game this week when, according to the WSJ a war funding bill didn't include funds "to begin closing the U.S. prison camp in Guantanamo Bay, Cuba."

According to the Journal Appropriations Chairman David Obey (D-Wis) complained that "the administration has not yet developed a clear plan to wind down operations at Guantanamo and relocate the detainees, either abroad or in the U.S."

President Obama was requesting $50 million to begin the process of shutting down Guantanamo which, in the wake of a $92 BILLION Appropriations bill is less than the pixel on the edge of an asterisk.

But it wasn't the amount of money the Administration was asking for. It was the bigger - and unanswered question - of whatcha gonna do with the terrorists who are currently housed there?

One of the many problems with moving all, or any, of the terrorists to U.S. soil is that every square inch of American soil in the Continental United States is represented by a Member of Congress and two Senators. And no Congressman or Senator is going to want to explain to his or her constituents why the guy mowing the lawn outside the county courthouse has 137 soldiers surrounding him with weapons at the ready.

Oh. That's not correct. It seems that there IS a small section of the United States which is NOT represented by a Congressman or any Senators.

The District of Columbia. We could move the terrorists to DC. I kind of like that idea. They could just vanish among the crooks and thieves who already hang out in the House and Senate office buildings.

Remember when we residents of the Commonwealth of Virginia were forbidden to enter the District of Columbia during the inauguration of Barack Obama?

If we put the prisoners in DC, Virginia could return the favor - close the bridges coming INTO the Old Dominion. Gotta protect us from the terrorists just as DC had to protect its residents from us.

Whoa! How about this? Every Embassy of a foreign government is, under international law, the actual soil of that country. We could just drop a few off here and there … a couple on the grounds of the French Embassy - officially delivering them to France; maybe one or two at the German Embassy - just for old time's sake; and a half-dozen or so at the Embassy of Iran - they know a little something about hostages. Continued...

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Rich Galen has been a press secretary to Dan Quayle and Newt Gingrich. Rich Galen currently works as a journalist and writes at Mullings.com

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There WAS Nothing Wrong w/Gitmo!!
The Fixation that "Gitmo" was bad, Gitmo was a Torture Chamber, etc, etc..Gitmo AS A POLITICAL PLOY that the Dems used to Criminalize Bush and Cheny!! Gitmo, as I recall Had been a Navy Brig (in addition to it's normal functions whatever they were) for a LONG TIME..A friend in Alaska, with whom I flew a HOMEMADE AIRPLane in the 1962 time frame, had been a Marine Guard at GITMO Long before that..I hear inside "trash" that they're gonna be PUSHED OFF on Alexandria VA..The whole TRANSFER?CLOSURE SCHEME SUCKS!! CHEERS!!

Obey Was Wrong!!
President Obama has a Plan. It is called an "Exit Strategy". The Terrorist were wrongfully incarcerated, apologize, pay them, and release them in Colorado. The Democrats even have their own Plan. It is called "Retreat and Withdraw". Send John Kerry to talk to those countries, no one in the media ever names them, that no longer respect America,apologize, pay them, and drop the Terrorist out of Airforce One with a copy of Obama's video while the plane is doing a photo op over Tehran. Now you may not like the Plan, but the Democrats had several of them.
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