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Liberal leaders in the Congress and the White House have always known that releasing prisoners from Guantanamo Bay was a bad idea, but 2006 and 2008 were election years and the need to placate their base was much more important than national security. Additionally, they saw Guantanamo Bay as the perfect excuse to attack George Bush and energize their base even if they knew that returning detainees back to their homeland would put our country at a major risk for more terrorist attacks.
With the failed Christmas attack, criticism has emerge over the policy of releasing these detainees. Liberals were quick to point out that the two Guantanamo Bay prisoners who were released were done under the Bush administration, however, what they fail to note is that Bush was required by law to release them, because the ACLU with its liberal backers sued the administration. You can read about that decision here.
Remember, Obama promised that closing Gitmo would make us more safe- the reasoning being that Gitmo was used by Al Qaeda as a “recruiting tool” and by closing it, we are somehow eliminating that. That very same reasoning was echoed today by Senator Reed (D-RI) on Fox News Sunday. Personally, I’m still trying to understand why moving terrorist from Gitmo to Thomson Correctional Facility in Illinois would make it any less of a “recruiting tool”. Hey, I’m not a liberal so what do I know. What I do know, however, is that liberals have a real mess on their hands and its of their very own creation. From Gitmo to Al Qaeda to these trials in New York, these people have no idea what their dealing with… or may be they do.
From Newsmax:
Dozens of released Guantanamo detainees have returned to the battlefield, said a senior US Senator, urging the Barack Obama administration not release more inmates from the war-on-terror prison camp.
US Senator Dianne Feinstein told CBS television’s “Face the Nation” program that about a third of former inmates at the US naval base who have returned to fight against US interests come from Yemen, the new focal point in the US fight against terrorism.
“If you look at Yemen, and we’re taking a good look at Yemen, what you see is I think at least 24 or 28 are confirmed returned to the battlefield in Yemen, and a number are suspected,” said Feinstein, head of the Senate Intelligence Committee.
“If you combine the suspected and the confirmed, the number I have is 74 detainees have gone back into the fight, and I think that’s bad,” she said.
Closing Guantanamo: a numbers game
“I think the Gitmo experience is not one that leads to rehabilitation,” Feinstein added.
Her views were seconded by Congressman Peter Hoekstra, the top Republican on the House Intelligence Committee, who appeared on the same CBS television program.
“These people are released and a number of them go back to the battlefield,” he said.
“When these Gitmo detainees find their way back on the battlefield, they’re no longer focused on the conflict in Pakistan, Afghanistan or Iraq,” he said.
“They form the corps of people who want to attack the United States. It’s a national security, homeland security issue.”
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