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Obama to Close Gitmo…One of These Days

Jimmie | January 12, 2009 | Comments (1)

President-Elect Obama is allegedly going to issue an executive order to close the detention facilities at Guantanamo Bay as his first official act as President. But it won’t really close. In fact, it won’t close in the first hundred days of his Presidency or even in the first year. According to the report, all the [...]

Sympathy for the Devils

Jimmie | November 12, 2008 | Comments (0)

My heart is absolutely broken. MIAMI (Reuters) – Former Guantanamo prisoners released after years of detention without charge went home to find themselves stigmatized and shunned, viewed either as terrorists or U.S. spies, according to a report released on Wednesday. The report by human rights advocates urged U.S. President-elect Barack Obama to form an independent, [...]

It’s Not All About Jane, Much to Her Chagrin

Jimmie | August 21, 2008 | Comments (1)

Jane Hamsher, the lefty blogger who once unrepentantly portrayed Joe Lieberman in blackface while working “unofficially” for his opponent Ned Lamont, has concocted a scenario by which John McCain picks Joe Lieberman as his VP. In this fantasy McCain dies in office and President Lieberman then throws her and all the other bloggers who backed [...]

New York Times Invents Yet Another Bush Conspiracy

Jimmie | August 7, 2008 | Comments (0)

the New York Times New York Times editorial today is a nifty little bit of hyperbole entitled “Guilty as Ordered”. The editors seem to think that the military tribunal that found Osama bin laden’s former driver guilty of supporting terrorists was a fait accompli. Here’s the lede in all its accusatory glory: Now that was [...]

Surprise, Surprise. Khalid Sheikh Mohammed Wants to Be A Martyr.

Jimmie | June 6, 2008 | Comments (2)

At least if it happens now, it won’t kill a few thousand Americans too. Fortunately for us, we don’t give a rat’s patoot what he wishes: GUANTANAMO BAY U.S. NAVAL BASE, Cuba (Reuters) – The accused al Qaeda mastermind of the September 11 attacks stood in a U.S. military court on Thursday, sang a chant [...]