Obama & Gitmo Prison

[apb]

...Look at how many times we were attacked, at home and abroad, under Clinton and, excpet for a couple of Cruse missles and unsupported Blackshawks, all he ever did was talk. I will be willing to bet that before the end of 2009 there will be a Terrorist attack on US soil that will make 9/11 look mild.

Grumpy

Other than the one attack on the World Trade Center under Clinton, what other attacks on US soil were there? Bear in mind that Clinton had no support from the Republican Congress to engage any further, so I don't think you can lay all of the blame at his feet. Hearing of attacks all the time on US personal overseas under Bush.

Andrew

[Grumpy]

Andrew: Besides the first WTC in 1993, other Terrorist attacks were:

1993: CIA Headquarters, langley, VA

1995; US Air Base, Riyahdh, Saudi Arabia

1996: Khobar Towers

1998: American Embassies in Kenya and Tanzania

Abductions and killings of American citizens all over the world.

The difference in responses to terror attacks between Clinton and the responses from Reagan before him and the two Bushs is that Clinton treated terrorist attacks as CRIMES to be investigated by the FBI and not as terrorist attacks to be responded to by our military.

Most Americans think that the terrorist war/Islamic Jihad started with the Word Trade Center but it has really been going on since the overthrow of the Shaw of Iran in 1979. And, it is not going to stop by talking to them as Obama wants to do. Unless, of course, what he says is: WE SURRENDER!!

Grumpy

[thebassman30]

Well put Richard!

[Downwind]

McCain also wanted to shut down GITMO, only he still wanted to use the same system of Military trials currently being used..

[Mean Morone]

So we give them an ACLU lawyer who gets them off on a technicality because one of our soldiers didn't give them their Miranda Rights and they walk right out the front door of the court house into your back yard? Yeah, makes sense. The evil Bush has been trying to keep some Muslim Chinese detained because China has said that we need to release these detainees over to them. I think we know what will happen to them over there. After being "re-educated" for a time, their families will be getting a bill in the mail for the cost of the bullets. I'm sure what we are doing to them is far worse.