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The American Conservative
by Kelley Vlahos

05/20/09

In the end, Obama could not ‘transcend’ — as was promised, endlessly — post-9/11 politics as usual in Washington, which is all about fear and manipulation, convincing everyone that there is a missing hijacker behind every bush on Mayberry Street. And repeating a lie enough to make it the truth. Which is exactly what Republicans did to cow Obama and his weak sister Democrats on the Hill this week — by repeating the word ‘terrorist’ at every chance regarding the Gitmo detainees, even when they know it doesn’t legally apply to even half of them. We know at this point that out of the 240 detainees currently on the island, 60 were cleared of any wrongdoing by the last administration and are just languishing there in a sort of limbo and 80 others have yet to be tried in whatever court the administration finally settles on. According to Sec. Def. Bob Gates, that leaves 50 to 100, who cannot be charged with terrorism but won’t be released because they are supposedly too much of a risk. That leaves how many convicted ‘terrorists?’ Three...

http://www.amconmag.com/blog/2009/05/20/stop-calling-them-terrorists/


Informant: Thomas L. Knapp



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