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If you thought President Obama’s release of five top Taliban commanders in exchange for POW Bowe Bergdahl was bad, wait until you see what his Gitmo parole board plans. Desperate to empty the Guantanamo Bay prison by the end of his term, Obama quietly is giving “get out of jail free” cards for the flimsiest of excuses.
One al Qaeda suspect captured in Afghanistan is considered reformed because he took up yoga and read a biography of the Dalai Lama. Another is eligible for release because of his “positive attitude.”
And one longtime detainee, a former bodyguard for Osama bin Laden, is now harmless because he’s going to start a “milk and honey farm.”
I make no apologies for it. It was a unanimous decision among my principals in my government, and a view that was shared by the Joint Chiefs of Staff. This is something I would do again and will continue to do whenever I have an opportunity.
originally posted by: beezzer
a reply to: Eryiedes
Not only no, but hell no!
Obama has passed beyond being a joke, and has now stepped into pathetic territory!
originally posted by: jimmyx
originally posted by: beezzer
a reply to: Eryiedes
Not only no, but hell no!
Obama has passed beyond being a joke, and has now stepped into pathetic territory!
so you believe the headline?....and there is nothing pathetic about that, I guess.....look I voted for Obama, but I think all of them should be put on trial, even the ones George bush released. apparently that doesn't get in this thread however because that would interrupt another daily saliva-inducing rant against Obama
originally posted by: beezzer
a reply to: Eryiedes
Not only no, but hell no!
Obama has passed beyond being a joke, and has now stepped into pathetic territory!
originally posted by: beezzer
originally posted by: jimmyx
originally posted by: beezzer
a reply to: Eryiedes
Not only no, but hell no!
Obama has passed beyond being a joke, and has now stepped into pathetic territory!
so you believe the headline?....and there is nothing pathetic about that, I guess.....look I voted for Obama, but I think all of them should be put on trial, even the ones George bush released. apparently that doesn't get in this thread however because that would interrupt another daily saliva-inducing rant against Obama
Refute the topic then.
Illustrate how Obama is not a pathetic excuse for a leader and president.
Show how his foreign policy and stance on Gitmo detainees is solid.
Go for it!
originally posted by: jimmyx
originally posted by: beezzer
originally posted by: jimmyx
originally posted by: beezzer
a reply to: Eryiedes
Not only no, but hell no!
Obama has passed beyond being a joke, and has now stepped into pathetic territory!
so you believe the headline?....and there is nothing pathetic about that, I guess.....look I voted for Obama, but I think all of them should be put on trial, even the ones George bush released. apparently that doesn't get in this thread however because that would interrupt another daily saliva-inducing rant against Obama
Refute the topic then.
Illustrate how Obama is not a pathetic excuse for a leader and president.
Show how his foreign policy and stance on Gitmo detainees is solid.
Go for it!
I don't need to refute it, YOU need to prove that it was said in the first place, because nowhere does it say that "the prisoner was released because he took up yoga"....that's a made-up line by the writer of the Post...and if it isn't please point to the quote....
What he did: Classified as an “indefinite detainee” in 2010 because of the danger he posed to the US. The Yemeni national was captured in 2001 fighting in Afghanistan. The military said he was a troublemaker while in custody, even inciting riots. He was uncooperative in interviews, showing “ill intentions toward the US.” One of his brothers in Yemen is a leader in al Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula, the terror group’s most lethal branch.
What they say now: His government-appointed lawyer argued he was merely an assistant cook for an unspecified military group. “He has asked for yoga magazines and self-help books,” lawyer Pardiss Kebriaei told the parole board in April, noting he practices yoga in his cellblock and has read biographies of the Dalai Lama and Martin Luther King Jr.
In his own plea to the board, Bihani suggested his hostility comes from losing his parents as a boy, saying, “It was hard growing up without a mother or father.” He promised to start a family and live a peaceful life if freed. “I look forward to the day when I can hold my baby in my hands,” he said. Last month, the board said it found his story “credible” and declared al-Bihani “no longer…a threat to the security of the United States.”
Obama’s terrorist parole board was established in 2011. He appoints its members — officials from the Justice Department, Pentagon, State Department and Homeland Security — without a congressional confirmation process. It is secretive and lacking in accountability.
"After arriving in Qatar, Noorullah Noori kept insisting he would go to Afghanistan and fight American forces there,” a Taliban commander told NBC News via telephone from Afghanistan.
Noori pushed to return to Afghanistan after learning that the U.S. had provided written assurances that no country would arrest any of the five freed for a year as long as they lived peacefully, one of his relatives told NBC News by telephone from Afghanistan. - See more at: www.abovetopsecret.com...
What he did: Classified as an “indefinite detainee” in 2010 because of the danger he posed to the US.
The military said he was a troublemaker while in custody, even inciting riots.
He was uncooperative in interviews, showing “ill intentions toward the US.”