Senate sends bill to block Gitmo grads from Yemen
As we discussed yesterday, the Yemen government is being held hostage in the capitol by Shiite rebels, so the Senate, for some reason, think that we shouldn’t send graduates of our Guantanamo University back there when they complete their studies, according to the Associated Press;
Republican senators introduced legislation last week, citing the Paris and other terrorist attacks, as a reason to legally reinstate a ban on Yemeni transfers among other restrictions on Guantanamo transfers during Obama’s remaining two years in office.
“The last thing we should be doing is transferring detainees from Guantanamo to a country like Yemen,” New Hampshire Republican Sen. Kelly Ayotte said in a news conference to announce the bill. “We have not received assurances from the administration that they will not seek to transfer anyone to Yemen, despite the wild, wild West nature of what we’re facing when it comes to terrorism in Yemen.”
Administration officials say even if they will not send detainees to Yemen now, Obama will not officially reinstate the ban to maintain flexibility in case conditions improve. The officials say he does not want any further restrictions on his ability to close Guantanamo with so little time left to meet his goal of shuttering it.
Yeah, well, the administration, just last week released four graduates to Oman – you, know, the nation right next to Yemen on the Arab Peninsula, so how much difference does it make, really? By the way, the president promised to close Guantanamo by the end of 2009 and that goalpost has been passed by, so what’s the damn rush?
Category: Terror War
I read that the Grand Poobah/President Emeritus/Whatever of Yemen is willing to negotiate with the rebels. Isn’t that rather like wanting to negotiate a salary increase with your employer after you’ve been canned? And who the hell are the rebels, exactly? That term is used as a pejorative by the media. Isn’t the term the Brits used to describe those colonial ingrates?
Iran backed Shiites. Makes sense since hussein is a Shiite Muslim himself.
How about we just cut to the chase and send them to Syria and save us all a lot of time and money trying to keep track of them, then nuke them from orbit…it’s the only way to be sure.
Fly ’em to Syria and let Bernath fuel up the plane
Announce their “release”, and then, as they leave the gates, they “disappear”. Permanently. Ya’know’wha’I’mean?
Just a wee bit off topic:
I have been watching the Woman’s Singles from Melbourne.
Three Words:
OH. MY. GOD.
If you just listen to the soundtrack of women’s tennis without looking at the screen, it sounds an awful lot like lesbian porn. Just saying.
Yemen = ABM Bodine
All jacked up!
Sorry for the FY 2000 reference!
When it comes to what’s happening in the Middle East, I think President Thomas Jefferson had the best idea. Ask them nicely. If they continue, send in the Marines to kill every male who carries a rifle… no if’s, and’s, or but’s.
Hussein has a pen and a phone. He’s said so. He’ll do whatever he wants and get away with it.
Most of this part of the world is just a disaster… is it not? I’m all for keeping these effers engaged on THEIR turf to limit their mischief-making here. But how long can we keep these trying to save these people from themselves?
These cultures and mindsets are pretty much a lost cause for us to try and win the hearts and minds of.