Looks Like Gitmo Will Be Open Longer Than Promised
Dec 26, 2009 Political
Barack Obama roared into office with lots of bluster and one of the things he did was sign an order to close the prison at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba. He said that it would be closed in a year and that year ends in January of 2010. After Obama signed the order to close Gitmo he began to see how difficult it would be to close the place.
He was able to move a few of the prisoners but many remain and now he has a plan to move them to Illinois. I do not like the idea of moving them to the US. It really makes no sense to move them from one prison to another for the sake of closing Gitmo. The outcome is the same but with different locations. The only thing I like about it is that the terrorists held in Gitmo will move from the comfortable weather in Cuba to the harsh winters of Illinois. I love the idea of these people freezing their rear ends off. How many claims of torture will come from this?
The plan to move them to Illinois is meeting resistance form residents of the state and the whole plan requires Congressional action with regard to funding and changing the law that only allows detainees to be held in the US while they await trial. Many of them have not been charged so the law would need to be changed. Many members of Congress might be reluctant to move these people to the US and to change current law when so many Americans oppose the idea. The whole mess now means that Gitmo will likely not be closed until 2011.
Oops, looks like Obama made a commitment that he could not keep. I think he overestimated his ability and the difficulty of accomplishing the task. I think he believed the messianic hype his followers were spewing and believed that he could walk on water.
Instead, he is drowning in a promise he could not keep.
This is what happens when they send a child to do a man’s job.
Somehow, he will blame this on Bush.
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No Surprise Here; Castro Succeeds Brother
Feb 24, 2008 General
Raul Castro has been selected to lead Cuba a week after his brother Fidel resigned. This comes as no surprise as Raul has been running the country during Fidel’s illness.
It is possible that Fidel Castro has been dead for some time and the resignation letter was not written by him. This would keep Cuba from suffering riots and civil upheaval. I think that if he is dead it will not be long (now that Raul is in) before they announce he is dead, stuff his body and put him on display.
Fidel Castro led the Cuba for nearly 50 years and is the longest ruling Communist dictator. Ironically, his socialized health care system, the one touted by Michael Moore, is what killed him. The surgeons botched his surgery and they had to call in doctors from other countries to clean up the mess. It appears as if the mess was too much for old Fidel to handle.
This is what Hillary and Obama want to give us.
I don’t know if Fidel is dead but I certainly hope he is and if not, that he dies soon. The world will be a better place when he is gone and Cuba will be a better country if they can get rid of his brother Raul.
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