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Topic: Obama: Guantánamo camps
a waste of U.S. resources |
Obama: Guantánamo camps
a waste of U.S. resources
Miami Herald, by Carol Rosenberg
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Posted By:LittleHoodedMonk, 1/3/2013 8:28:47 PM
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| President Barack Obama late Tuesday signed a $633 billion defense bill that continues to block his ability to close the prison camps at Guantánamo, then in a separate signing statement issued Wednesday called the prison camps a waste of national security resources. “I continue to believe that operating the facility weakens our national security by wasting resources, damaging our relationships with key allies, and strengthening our enemies,” Obama said in a statement released by the White House Wednesday morning. While the president has bristled at the restrictions in past signing statements,
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Comments:
At bottom of article, says 0bama signed this bill personally, unlike the "fiscal cliff" bill which was done with an autopen. Makes one wonder why...
Nice to see that the GOP caused a wedgie in his pants still over GITMO. I suggest he move the detainees to White House where he seems to be rarely home & has so many rooms. With all the SS protection there, a win-win for 0bama./S
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Reply 1 - Posted by:
hisself, 1/3/2013 8:40:56 PM (No. 9097341)
With all the vacations, campaign trips and all his staff, obama and moochelle are a far greater waste of U.S. resources!
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Reply 2 - Posted by:
Boneshaker, 1/3/2013 8:43:09 PM (No. 9097344)
That money could be going to pay more Obama voters and other moochers not to work.
Instead we are wasting it by keeping muslim terrorists imprisoned.
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Reply 3 - Posted by:
VinGoombatz, 1/3/2013 8:47:52 PM (No. 9097348)
So Barry has his "beliefs"
BFD
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Reply 4 - Posted by:
Nimby, 1/3/2013 8:49:44 PM (No. 9097350)
So is he
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Reply 5 - Posted by:
uno, 1/3/2013 8:53:01 PM (No. 9097354)
Oh sure! Tell us aawwllll about waste Mr Obamboozler!
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Reply 6 - Posted by:
Blue-Z-Anna, 1/3/2013 9:05:28 PM (No. 9097366)
As Emperor, the truth proceeds from his spoken word ipso facto.
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Reply 7 - Posted by:
lylacat, 1/3/2013 9:34:14 PM (No. 9097388)
Read #1 again and again. I could not agree more, and I loathe these moochers also.
With all the vacations, campaign trips and all his staff, obama and moochelle are a far greater waste of U.S. resources!
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Reply 8 - Posted by:
jl80863, 1/3/2013 9:45:15 PM (No. 9097404)
My idea of "wasting resources" is a $20M vacation in HI and the $1.5 Billion spent on the obama family last year.
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Reply 9 - Posted by:
ColonialAmerican1623, 1/3/2013 9:55:59 PM (No. 9097413)
Why does it cost $800,000 per year per
prisoner for a POW ? Did they get their outdoor courtyard so they could see the ocean while playing sports ? Where is Sheriff Joe ?
It must be hard to leave Camp Gitmo and go back to a camel, a goat, and a cave.
They could always reopen Alcatraz so it will feel more like home.
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Reply 10 - Posted by:
Not your typical New Yorker, 1/3/2013 10:02:21 PM (No. 9097417)
For the next 4 years ALL AVAILABLE FUNDS WILL BE FUNNELED TOWARDS OBAMAS SLACKER BASE!
That is all, carry on....
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Reply 11 - Posted by:
hamrman, 1/3/2013 10:06:48 PM (No. 9097421)
So is Obama!
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Reply 12 - Posted by:
Happy Trails, 1/3/2013 10:29:08 PM (No. 9097439)
Don´t you know that the savages that overran the Benghazi complex were "graduates" of Camp Gitmo. He just wants ALL of "his people" to go free. What a piece of crap this guy is. Kill them all with your hollow point bullet stash, you traitor. (I just can´t say enough about how I feel about this jerk. Still, if we could put him and a hundred of his friends in there, we could let the others go.)
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Reply 13 - Posted by:
Father of Internet, 1/3/2013 10:51:33 PM (No. 9097457)
But sending US chefs around the world instead of protecting the embassy and consulate in Libya doesn´t weaken our security.
Our President is totally delusional.
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Reply 14 - Posted by:
The Advocate, 1/3/2013 10:57:01 PM (No. 9097465)
We should keep GITMO open so Obama, Holder, Jarrett et al will have a safe place to serve out their natural lives for treason.
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Reply 15 - Posted by:
a man over thirty, 1/3/2013 11:52:38 PM (No. 9097535)
I thought presidential signing statements were anathema to liberals.
Oh wait, that was 2000 to 2008.
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Reply 16 - Posted by:
PageTurner, 1/4/2013 1:08:53 AM (No. 9097592)
Fine. Kill them then. Or is that something you don´t quite have the stones to do, Obozo?
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Reply 17 - Posted by:
LanieLou, 1/4/2013 1:34:00 AM (No. 9097604)
Only because his intent is to quietly continue to release them...
Read about African civil war prisoners being transferred to the US for trial. Holder says it´s to make sure they aren´t treated cruelly... Really??? Come on...
Now we choose winners & losers in African civil wars... and provide prison benes ?
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Reply 18 - Posted by:
Trigger2, 1/4/2013 4:05:13 AM (No. 9097657)
No, the Obamanation is a waste of US resources.
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Reply 19 - Posted by:
ladychatalie, 1/4/2013 4:28:25 AM (No. 9097673)
The middle of the three items would be the one Obama cares about most: key terrorist allies of his (not of America´s).
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Reply 20 - Posted by:
mickturn, 1/4/2013 9:08:45 AM (No. 9098021)
You wouldn´t know waste if it bit you on the behind.
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