I hearby order

[malaise]

Guantanamo will be closed no later than one year from now.

GObama - on GEM$NBC

sp

[Ichingcarpenter]

1. Isn't this great!

I'm watching on blinkotv..... No torture too!!! Army field manual


http://www.blinkotv.com/

[malaise]

2. Fabulous

Promise kept. Senior army men cheer.

[Ichingcarpenter]

3. The last one is on the Arbari case

Man, listen to those cameras click

[malaise]

4. Did you notice Contessa calling him Barack Obama and

not President? I may send her a little note. :D

sp.

[Ichingcarpenter]

5. Yes, I almost turned it off but Schuster came on

She is a big republican hack

[Ichingcarpenter]

7. Contessa Brewer: just played Rush then

attacked Biden on his joke about Roberts.

Geez that woman is such a obvious hack.

[lumberjack_jeff]

6. I hereby K&R. n/t

[UrbScotty]

8. What a relief it is to have a President who cares about our values!

[malaise]

9. Yes indeed

http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2009/jan/22/hillary-clinton-diplomatic-foreign-policy





Steve Bell

http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/cifamerica/2009/jan/22/guantanamo-closing-obama-order
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President Barack Obama has done more in a few short hours to protect the security and uphold the values of the United States than his predecessor did throughout his long eight years in office. Guantánamo will be closed. The secret CIA prisons will be shut down. And torture and other "enhanced interrogation techniques" will be prohibited. Much work remains to be done, but President Obama has begun his administration by sending a clear signal to friend and foe alike: America is back and ready once again to lead the community of nations toward a future that is both more secure and more free.

George Bush abandoned centuries of American respect of the rule of law in the misguided belief that he could purchase some measure of security for this sacrifice of liberty. He could not have been more wrong. Hundreds if not thousands of Americans have died as a direct result of Bush's Guantánamo and Abu Ghraib catastrophes. America's torture and detention regime drove a constant stream of suicide bombers into the arms of al-Qaida in Iraq. These foreign fighters were the suicide bombers and insurgents who fed the violence in Iraq that claimed the lives of so many Americans and Iraqis. The bizarre claims during the Bush legacy tour that the former president kept Americans safe from terrorists can only count if you don't consider US soldiers and marines serving in Iraq Americans.