tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4912713243046142041.post198336176036187424..comments2024-03-28T23:22:41.774-05:00Comments on TYWKIWDBI ("Tai-Wiki-Widbee"): President Obama's anti-terrorism policiesMinnesotastanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01382888179579245181noreply@blogger.comBlogger5125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4912713243046142041.post-41241851933141034552011-01-19T00:36:49.996-06:002011-01-19T00:36:49.996-06:00One of the problems Obama has faced in closing Gua...One of the problems Obama has faced in closing Guantanamo is what to do with all of those prisoners. The Republicans have blocked him in so many ways in trying to bring the prisoners that it's become all but impossible to close Gitmo. And there are Super-Max prisons here in the United States that are all but empty, and would love to have a chance to open full time, but no.<br /><br />DaBrisDaBrisnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4912713243046142041.post-48277909770267964742011-01-18T21:02:17.566-06:002011-01-18T21:02:17.566-06:00@BJN You betcha. I'll see you one Glenn Gree...@BJN You betcha. I'll see you one Glenn Greenwald and raise you a Ron Paul.<br /><br />Glenn Greenwald is especially exasperating to folks like me because he pulls out his can of leftie whoop ass rhetoric... and he's right. Assassinating US citizens is perhaps not a power we should give to the executive branch, be it controlled by the Ds or the Rs.<br /><br />I could go on, but I need to get back to stockpiling my bullets, silver, and non-hybrid seeds.KevinMnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4912713243046142041.post-71859766380530231242011-01-18T20:59:49.640-06:002011-01-18T20:59:49.640-06:00He learned, IMHO, that if he could be painted as &...He learned, IMHO, that if he could be painted as "soft on terror," he was unlikely to be elected to a second term.<br /><br />(Cynical, moi??)<br /><br />--Swift LorisAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4912713243046142041.post-66207012561207133192011-01-18T20:31:24.275-06:002011-01-18T20:31:24.275-06:00Some friends and I were just discussing this today...Some friends and I were just discussing this today. What could he have learned that would make him renege on his decision to close Guantanamo? To appear to support the Bush-Cheney policies he and the Democratic Party had decried? My friends and I are quite upset about this.Barbwirenoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4912713243046142041.post-89191337640921634312011-01-18T15:25:26.416-06:002011-01-18T15:25:26.416-06:00Just made a donation. I wonder if a lefty like me ...Just made a donation. I wonder if a lefty like me would have any common ground with conservative teabag folks when looking at these assaults to civil liberty by the executive?BJNnoreply@blogger.com