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2009-09-25 Home Front: Politix

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Posted by tipper 2009-09-25 02:09|| || Front Page|| [7 views ] Top

#1 "Guantanamo was everyone's part-time job,"

You asked for it; you got it. Toyota.

Posted by Bobby 2009-09-25 07:02|| 2009-09-25 07:02|| Front Page Top

#2 Good grief, they're trying to blame this on Bush as well? Weasels.

Posted by Rex Mundi 2009-09-25 10:00|| 2009-09-25 10:00|| Front Page Top

#3 Three administration officials said they expect Craig to leave his current post in the near future, and one said he is on the short list for a seat on the bench or a diplomatic position.

Oh, Lordy! Ginsburg was hospitalized last night and diplomacy hasn't got us anywhere with Iran and the Norks as it is. Just when I thought it couldn't get much worse....

Posted by Lumpy Elmoluck5091 2009-09-25 10:47|| 2009-09-25 10:47|| Front Page Top

#4 "White House Counsel Gregory B. Craig, who initially guided the effort to close the prison and who was an advocate of setting the deadline,"

"Craig to leave his current post in the near future, and one said he is on the short list for a seat on the bench or a diplomatic position"

So he gets a district court judgeship, or a minor embassy. Where hes no longer a headache for the WH. This admin moves quickly to fix its mistakes.

Imagine if Rummy had been made ambassador to, I dont know, Japan in summer 2004. We would have had Iraq under control two years earlier.

Posted by liberalhawk 2009-09-25 11:48|| 2009-09-25 11:48|| Front Page Top

#5 Good grief, they're trying to blame this on Bush as well?

Why not. They're still running against Bush and will be well into the next decade.

Posted by Woozle Uneter9007 2009-09-25 17:02|| 2009-09-25 17:02|| Front Page Top

#6 Not at this rate. The shot across the bow comes in 2010. The broadside comes in 2012.

Posted by Rex Mundi 2009-09-25 18:04|| 2009-09-25 18:04|| Front Page Top

#7 the administration will need to find facilities to house 50 to 60 prisoners who cannot be released and who cannot be tried because of legal impediments

Sounds like double-speak/same-but-different way of saying what W said: We can't try them because they would just take advantage of an inapplicable legal system to cause even more grief by disclosing methods and means. Besides, that's the NYSlime's job. So it sounds like Nobama et. al. are just going to make themselves a new rule that keeps this from happening even on US soil. Which implies that W was worried that the Donks would make political hay out of this, so he put himself in a position where he would be safe for the duration of his stay in office, and let the Donks perjure themselves when their turn came.

Posted by gorb 2009-09-25 22:25|| 2009-09-25 22:25|| Front Page Top

#8 ION PAKISTANI DEFENCE FORUM > THE END OF BRITAIN AS A MAJOR POWER? OBAMA REJECTS GORDON BROWN'S REQUESTS FIVE TIMES [BAMMER-GORDEY private = bilater talks]; + BRITAIN'S ROLE IN G20 THREATENED BY US PLANS; + [GUARDIAN.uk] BRITIAN IS NO LONGER A MAJOR WORLD POWER, SO LETS BECOME A FAIRER, NICER NATION ABOUT IT. UK BUDGET OWES > PROBS OF CREDIT CRUNCH = come Year 2034, UK will be a MIDDLE-RANKING WORLD POWER albeit still nuke-armed + econ important to more potent States???

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