Bush Released 500 From GitMo...171 Went Back To The Fight

[bravoactual]

Director of National Intelligence: Bush-Cheney released 171 Gitmo prisoners who returned to battlefield, compared to Obama's 7 ? The Lead with Jake Tapper - CNN.com Blogs.

Of the Five Hundred (500) Detainees released from Guantanamo Bay by bush 43, One Hundred Seventy-One (171) went back to the battle field to continue the fight.

How dare President Obama release 5-al_Qeada leaders, only the shrub and darth dick(less) can do that.

 

[Little-Acorn]

That's what he gets for listening to liberals squalling, "But... but... you can't keep them indefinitely without charges! That's UNFAIR!"

....as though able-bodied prisoners of war were EVER released back to the other side before the conflict ended.

 

[LadyGunSlinger]

Boooooooooooooooooooooooooooshhhhhhh


Bush sucked too.. having said that HE DID NOT NEGOTIATE WITH TERRORISTS . HE DID NOT trade 5 of the worst terrorists for a deserter/traitor. HE did not break the law by not notifying Congress and pretending like he was an Emperor. ( George Bush usurped his Constitutional powers also by EO) but this wasn't one of those times.. so when you compare apples, bring apples.

 

[tinydancer]

Obama released 5 top echelon Taliban leaders. Not Mohammed 6 packs.

The fool released in a time when we are still at war with the Taliban their leaders.

It's the equivalent of the Allies in WWII trading 4 cabinet ministers and a Rommel for a hostage.

In the immortal words of Joe Biden "it's a big fucking deal".

 

[Moonglow]

Boooooooooooooooooooooooooooshhhhhhh


Bush sucked too.. having said that HE DID NOT NEGOTIATE WITH TERRORISTS . HE DID NOT trade 5 of the worst terrorists for a deserter/traitor. HE did not break the law by not notifying Congress and pretending like he was an Emperor. ( George Bush usurped his Constitutional powers also by EO) but this wasn't one of those times.. so when you compare apples, bring apples.

He did, BOOOOOOOOOSH! paid Sunni's in Anbar province of Iraq to fight on our side, even after killing US soldiers...and he made amore to Quadafy.

 

[Moonglow]

Obama released 5 top echelon Taliban leaders. Not Mohammed 6 packs.

The fool released in a time when we are still at war with the Taliban their leaders.

It's the equivalent of the Allies in WWII trading 4 cabinet ministers and a Rommel for a hostage.

In the immortal words of Joe Biden "it's a big fucking deal".

How else would you track them to find out their network?

 

[whitehall]

Doesn't it indicate that it ain't a good idea to trade five generals for a PFC? When are they going to stop blaming Bush?

 

[bendog]

Remember "the surge" involved actually paying sunnis, who'd participated in killing Americans during the insurgency, to police their own neighborhoods and stop shooting at us. Not all in the military were pleased, but Petreaus was the hero of the hour with politicians. If you ever wondered why his fall was so swift and deep with no chance of redemption .... he made enemies in the army.

That's not to argue "BushII did it too." HE did but its irrelevant. Rather, invading and occupying Iraq and Afghan were fools' errands, and we're merely dealing with the shite left behind by both potuses. You can't keep holding people who simply supported fighting the US in their own countries after the fighting stops.

 

[Redfish]

Let me see if I get what you libs are saying--------If Bush did something stupid it makes it OK for Obama to do the same stupid things ??????????? WTF is wrong with you people?

But for the record, Bush did not release the 5 most dangerous guys in exchange for one possible deserter.

You stupid moral equivalency attempts fail-----as they always do.

 

[Redfish]

Obama released 5 top echelon Taliban leaders. Not Mohammed 6 packs.

The fool released in a time when we are still at war with the Taliban their leaders.

It's the equivalent of the Allies in WWII trading 4 cabinet ministers and a Rommel for a hostage.

In the immortal words of Joe Biden "it's a big fucking deal".

How else would you track them to find out their network?

Oh, did we put tracking chips under their shin?????????

 

[Moonglow]

It's called precedent..

 

[Rambunctious]

bush!

 

[Moonglow]

Obama released 5 top echelon Taliban leaders. Not Mohammed 6 packs.

The fool released in a time when we are still at war with the Taliban their leaders.

It's the equivalent of the Allies in WWII trading 4 cabinet ministers and a Rommel for a hostage.

In the immortal words of Joe Biden "it's a big fucking deal".

How else would you track them to find out their network?

Oh, did we put tracking chips under their shin?????????

Or armpit, skull, maybe in the upper sinus region...or I am guessing?? Anally???

 

[Moonglow]

bush!

Shave it off!!!

 

[PaintMyHouse]

Releasing them was a terrible idea. We should have made them all go on Dancing With The Stars. No one reappears after being on that.

 

[bendog]

It's called precedent..

I don't agree there's a precedent. What there is is law. Detainees have a right to an impartial review of why they are being held. Presumably they can be indefinitely held if there is probable cause to believe they participated in a terror attack against the US OR if they have something akin to POW status or are commanders of opposing forces in an ongoing foreign war.

 

[Moonglow]

The reason that Bush had Congress declare war on terror, they invoked the right to Habeas Corpus..pretty bad when spell checker does not know how to spell...

 

[whitehall]

Low information lefties often substitute hatred for logic in desperate attempts to defend the administration. They see a left wing blog and the pounce without thinking. President Bush was pressured by the democrat majority in congress to release Gitmo prisoners. Barry Hussein broke the freaking law that he sighed by not consulting with congress when he made the worst deal in history by trading five generals for a PFC who was apparently a deserter.

 

[Plasmaball]

It's so fun watching the partisan hacks get bent out of shape over things they either ignored or defended at the time under bush.

 

[bendog]

It's so fun watching the partisan hacks get bent out of shape over things they either ignored or defended at the time under bush.

Well, sure BushII ignored law when it suit his purpose, and so does Obama. It may well be true that Obama had to act quickly, and it's obviously true that congress had been informed in the past that a prisoner swap was on the table. I don't think its really bushii did this or Obama did that. What it is is disingenuous for congressmen to say "we had no idea ....." And better yet with McCain, who was for it before he was against it.

But all that is a separate issue to actually releasing people from gitmo. Legally, it must be done when certain conditions are met. BushII had to comply with law. This issue has been to the supreme court twice, if I recall right, and it was most recently in the 2nd Cir Court of Appeals. Those five had to be released when the US ceases military options in Afghan, UNLESS they are wanted by some govt on some charges unrelated to simply opposing their country being invaded by the US and the dwindling coaltion.