And I guess they love you back

Feel the love

Like a caress from heaven

Like a sublime velvet glove...

http://www.ynetnews.com/articles/0,7340,L-3643550,00.html

And we love those guys.

The fact that improvements, pertaining to the functioning of the MAC, means that the funds budgeted are being spent and the last possible tax monies for corruption will be misspent accordingly for that purpose. Concluding that GITMO and the MAC will continue because the money is being spent makes sense, of course, that it is the purpose for keeping GITMO is the wrong conclusion. The conclusion is that the tax monies are just the last of the Bush maladministration opportunity for corruption and that's all.

CRIMINAL & TREASONIST ROGUE ELEMENTS OF THE AMERICA GOVERNMENT PERSONNEL ABOVE THE RULE OF LAW WERE EMPLOYED & DIRECTED TO ENGAGE & EMPLOY & ASSIST ENEMY PLAYERS TO COMMIT ACTS OF VIOLENCE IN & AROUND VARIOUS PARTS OF THE WORLD SO THAT NATIONS' EVENTUALLY WOULD WEAKEN THE PEOPLES' RIGHTS AS A CITIZEN & PLACE THE AUTHORITY ON ITS' OWN NATION TO SAFEGUARD ITS' OWN PEOPLE BY STRIPPING THEM SLOWLY BUT SURELY OF THE INDIVIDUAL RIGHTS...

NOT TO MENTION THE DELIBERATE KILLING OF SOME OF THESE PEOPLES'

THOUGHTS / MINDS / MEMORIES BY KEEPING THEM IN CAPTIVITY FOR SO LONG & HOPING THAT SECRET TRIBUNALS WOULD NOT REVEAL ANY GOVT. OFFICIALS INVOLVEMENT WITH THE SO-CALLED TERRORISTS LIKE A OPEN PUBLIC FEDERAL TRIAL JUST MIGHT REVEAL...

...shutting down Gitmo (if it happens -- I wouldn't be surprised if the issue suddenly becomes "complicated" on Jan. 20) means that all those prisoners get to go home?

...to create a mechanism to transfer these cases to civilian courts? Just asking...

The government works at a glacial pace,

Except of course when it comes time to give away $700 billion to the big wheels in the financial industry.

For the *really* important things, government can move very rapidly indeed.

Consider also that Congress declared war (how quaint) on Japan on December 8, 1941.

Christmas Interview with Margaret Bryant-Gainer Palestine and Prison

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P2MU5WVO4X8

......points to an unconstitutional monster that George W. Bush created during his tenure in office. The Navy Captain who stated that justice never sleeps in the case of the "terrorist" he is trying should be aware that justice is blind and he may be next to face her sword. They have twisted the U.S. Constitution and the law of our land and THAT is about to end on January 20, 2009. Obama has my support to close the base in Cuba and let the American people decide the fate of these prisoners. We want change and we want it NOW. Goodbye GITMO and good riddance!

the detainees due for release but his implorings are falling on stony ground. Portugal, which colonised what is now Brazil, has been making cheerful sounds as it attempts to rally the other 26 States of the EU, Germany is thinking it over but with an election there in 2009 that rumination may be prolonged; Denmark is downright surly and who can blame those Danes who like cartoons and even the Swedes, thos icons of liberalism, have enough of the smorgasbord. As the West is leaching blood in Afghanistan where a Taleban State is a virtual certainty, all those captured in Afghanistan might prefer to return to that country if US taxpayers are unwilling to have them settle in America. 30,000 extra US soldiers are to be deployed in Afganistan in 2009 so these ex-detainees would be invaluable in language coaching, even teaching the American troops the local lingo equivalent to "WTF", that elegant expletive.

You've got to admire the Australians, after all. They repatriated David Hicks, the former kangaroo-skinner from Adelaide, who was captured in Afghanistan, and also Mamdouh Habib, a Sydney resident of Egyptian birth who also had felt enough wanderlust as to leave the delights of Bondi Beach and travel to Pakistan AND Afghanistan. As one Danish politician put it, If they're not a threat why isn't it possible to give them a welcome in the American homeland? This is what President-Elect Obama has to ponder during his well-earned rest in Hawaii. They are from countries as distant from each other as China and Yemen but, by now, they might have learned enough about the American way of life to pass a citizenship test.

BAGHDAD — The Iraqi Parliament accepted the resignation of the Parliament speaker, Mahmoud al-Mashhadani, on Tuesday and immediately authorized the government to approve a resolution to allow British, Australian and other foreign troops to stay in Iraq after the end of the year.

http://www.nytimes.com/2008/12/24/world/middleeast/24iraq.html

And the waters of the Red Sea will crash down on the army of pharaoh.

Then you are a truly delusional Obamanoid. People are missing the point. The phony "evidence", the bogus confessions, the 9/11 patsies, the torture.. Its all for us, brown people from far away first, then US citizens next.

"So why does the government act like they'll [military commissions] continue past January 20?" - BECAUSE THEY WILL!

I tried to cheer him up, saying the U.S. will stay in Iraq after all, just re-label soldiers "advisors" or "peacekeepers." Then he unexpectedly started singing:

"They'll torture Arabs now, but not for me.

They'll start another war, but not for me.

They'll burn a hole right through

A trillion bucks or two

To raid a nation few Yanks ever knew.

They'll open wide the U.S. Treasury

And take the loot to help th'economy.

We broke the law for you,

And Dems approved it, too,

They'll have a spree again, but not for me."

...even though the people charged had nothing whatsoever to do with 9/11. The mind reels.

With the other 2.5 million people who are there now. No one cares about them, right?

In a little less than a month the Guantanamo disaster can move into the cleanup phase. After that it can join the Japanese Internment Camps, the Trail of Tears, and Slavery in the list of American human rights abuses.

I ain't saying that I don't think Gitmo will close. THe odds are that it will, but it is no longer a metaphysical certainty. I am one Conservative who is taking a second look at that crazy kid from Chicago you guys voted for.

For one, he appears to have done a complete 180 on Iraq...Gates and Jones are 5 star, gold plated American warriors. And Hillary? I'm no fan but one thing I can say for her is that she is aware that the world has bad people in it who need to be killed and she is prepared to do it (cover it up all you want but she was on the "A Team" getting us into Iraq. Good for her!!

And the Rick Warren thing. Thank a merciful God. Obama ain't going to let perverts set the agenda. He might even introduce some pro-family legistlation.

So, the flip-floppingest Ivy Leaguer I've ever seen might not be so bad after all. OF course, you lefties shouldn't feel too bad. With that FOCA monstrosity, you'll still get to kill lots of babies.