>Well, Barack Hussein Obama is admitting he's nowhere near getting Guantanamo Bay closed....
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>This insanity goes back a year, when the Supreme Court disgracefully ruled 5-4 that suspected terrorists held by the U.S. military at Guantanamo Bay, have the right to challenge their detention in Federal Court. Justice Scalia summarized the four dissenting votes: "America is at war with radical Islamists...this decision will almost certainly cause more Americans to be killed....The Nation will live to regret what the court has done today."
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>The detainees at Guantanamo are not "petty theft criminals" – some are Al-Qaeda/Taliban fighters, captured on the battlefield!!!!!
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>Obama's position is about one thing - making our enemies believe that we're really nice people. For those old enough to remember, this is as bad as the Andrew Young apologist years in the late 1970's.
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>Fortunately, even some of Obama's democratic allies have spoken - that Obama is essentially nuts for wanting to imprison, try, or free any of the detainees on U.S. soil. The FBI has also ripped Obama for lack of a strong plan for dealing with the detainees in the U.S.
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>Bush was not a good leader - but Obama is a seriously BAD leader on so many fronts.

At least some, if not a lot, of the detainees at Gitmo are completely innocent.

I don't have a problem with military tribunals, which I assume are somewhat similar to our court system. But these people needed some kind of legal recourse.