Let me get this straight - The Senators want the President to come up with a plan for Gitmo?

[rufus dog]

Including Reid and the Majority of Dems! I have to ask, what are they doing to clean up the mess of the last 25 years, why the fuck don't they get together and come up with a plan. Be a leader, take some ownership. It is easy to sit back and wait for a solution. Off to see who were the handful of Senators with a backbone.

Friggen wimps.

[Captain Hilts]

1. The Exec. Branch put those folks in Gitmo, not Congress. nt

[phleshdef]

2. This is true. But if Congress is going to control funding, they have a measure of duty...

...to offer some insight on possible solutions as well.

[DJ13]

3. Pay the home government of each prisoner $10 million to take them back

What their own government does with them (provided they agree to humanitarian rules) is their own business, but it ends the problem.

Then close Gitmo, and turn it over to Disney to create a GOP torture themed park, with free lifetime passes for GOP Congress members.

[stillcool]

12. I wonder if they would promise

not to say anything to get out of the "No-tell Cheney Motel"...kind of like Vegas.

[ShortnFiery]

4. I can't even recognize Reid as a fellow democrat today. He's INSANE. We have the best SUPER-MAX

prisons. What the hell are these candy-assed democratic Senators afraid of?!? We have serial murderers, gang banger hit men and all other flavors of violent personas in prisons BUT fear-mongering Harry Reid is afraid of "propaganda" that MIGHT HAPPEN. That these "illustrious" Enemy Combatants, many of them mentally ill due to all the torture they've endure WILL INFLUENCE hardened American Criminals.

Well, I'll stack up our VIOLENT CRIMINALS against any other Nations - We kick ASS! :silly:

Seriously, what the hell are they afraid of? Why CAN'T we bring these men into the American Judicial System.

Methinks these gutless "democratic" leaders may have something they wish the American People do NOT discover about their LACK of NERVE for the important topics ... SUCH AS, "The Bill of Rights."

If we don't push this issue, if or when we have another Terrorist Attack, EVERY US CITIZEN will also be "a potential enemy combatant.

[RandomThoughts]

6. He put the emphasis on the word 'releasing'.

Sounds like that word has some meaning to them, beyond simple concept. His statement about not releasing them from Gitmo, was his point. Which doesn't make sense since change of location is not a worldly releasing, but seems to be some thought of a bigger meaning to the word releasing.

Or they are making the only arguments they can, because they don't want to make arguments based on their real reasons.

Many Democrats want to get back to just the status quo. And for some reason, it seems, they either don't want to admit it, or maybe they are afraid of something. Or maybe they can't figure out how to do it, they might fear some information getting out. Hard to know, they might be stuck with what Bush did, and want to forget it happened, since if people find out they will freak out.

[RandomThoughts]

8. There are alot of groups that do alot of thinking on spiritual stuff.

There was a Stargate Atlantas episode, where the main character was playing poker, he had a bunch of sixes as cards, and the bad guy in the show, a wraith had a bunch of sevens. I say this just to give an example of the frame of mind of some groups. It is a regular scifi show, but so many shows like that have spiritual stuff in them, and the 'groups' that many in government are in, have lots of spiritual stuff to them. So I would guess it is something from that group.

Some meaning to the word 'releasing' that bothers Harry Reid.

[John Q. Citizen]

5. I say the Senators and House members who voted for war should come up with a plan

[polichick]

7. That's pretty good - where were they when Bush had no plan for Iraq...

They funded time and time again.

[blm]

9. Hate to say this, but since Durbin also took point on the move then this is OBAMA buying time...

Durbin is one of Obama's key operators in the senate.

[pdxmom]

10. I don't have a problem with Congress asking to see the plan, but I wish

that they had had the courage to force Bush to provide some plans for the entire freakin' war before opening up the U.S. Treasury to him.

Never once did they require anything from Bush...they just rolled over and peed themselves, even when they controlled Congress. Now they think they are showing accountability by making it difficult for Obama to accomplish something that the majority of this country wants taken care of.

The Dems, once again, have their heads up their asses.

[Rosa Luxemburg]

11. there's plenty of land at the ranch in Crawford, TX

Bush can house them. Most of them were probably his patsies anyway.

[rufus dog]

13. KO just had a guy on from outside Billings MO

Harden, Montana will take 100 of them. They have a completely vacant Maximum Security Prison and want the cash. The guys said the locals would rather have terrorists than sex offenders! And if you think about it logically that viewpoint makes sense. a terrorist escapes and has miles of flat land to deal with and what the hell is he going to do, walk into a store in Billings or Sheridan and buy a truck load of fertilizer? A sex offender has a better chance or creating havoc. Hell if a terrorist escapes he would have a higher probability of being blown up than blowing anything up.