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#1 Bulgaria bomber is a former Gitmo prisoner and left-wing icon/hero
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07-20-2012, 02:20 AM
http://www.breitbart.com/Big-Peace/2...released-Gitmo
Leftists who hate Israel can rejoice; their efforts at securing the release of a Gitmo detainee and their subsequent lionizing of him allowed him to murder five Israelis in the bombing Wednesday in Burgas, Bulgarian. The bomber has been identified as Mehdi Ghezali, who was detained at Gitmo Bay in Cuba from 2002 to 2004.
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07-20-2012, 09:38 AM
He was released from Gitmo in 2004. I don't think a liberal was responsible for that.
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07-20-2012, 10:56 AM
I have to ask the question, "Who was campaigning for 'humane treatment' and release of those who have not been convicted?"
It was the liberals, of course. Just because the liberals are not in power at some given moment doesn't mean they are without input. Conservatives have some input to the course of things now, and liberals had some input during the Bush years.
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07-20-2012, 11:11 AM
Wow. Um... To be perfectly polite, but blunt, that's pretty ignorant. Gitmo has been a prime target for liberals since the Bush Administration started detaining prisoners there and they have constantly put heavy pressure on the government to release as many people as possible.
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07-20-2012, 11:15 AM
Are you really that stupid...are just trying to copy from A-D's playbook?
The Liberals have been against detention of ANY terrorist suspect at Guantanamo Bay since the first one was placed there.
Hell the law firm that Eric Holder worked for along with nine lawyers now working for Justice were all doing pro bono work on behalf of these poor mistreated bomb throwers.
Who do you think threw the whole tribunal system into legal limbo and made sure that these thugs had protection under American laws?
Hint: It wasn't Bush or the Republicans.
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07-20-2012, 11:20 AM
Oh, gosh. Here's a big surprise. Now that their golden boy has exposed himself for what he truly was, the Swedish government, which virtually laid out the red carpet for him on his returns home from both Gitmo and Pakistan (see the Breitbart piece), is denying the reports along with the U.S. (thanks, Obama!).
http://forward.com/articles/159581/o...namo-detainee/
U.S. and Swedish officials denied widespread reports that the suspected suicide bomber who blew up a bus of Israeli tourists in Bulgaria was an Islamic militant from Sweden who served two years at Guantanamo Bay.
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07-20-2012, 01:53 PM
I'm one of those liberals who doesn't like the idea of detaining people and depriving them of due process of law. Especially if we detain them outside of our own borders because we don't have to follow due process if they aren't in our country.
That doesn't mean I think that the detainees should be set free to do whatever. I just felt they should be incarcerated in the US, treated humanely while incarcerated and be prosecuted in the US court system.
It doesn't matter what the left's position was on Gitmo and tribunals, or whether Eric Holder's law firm did pro bono work on behalf of the detainees held at Gitmo because they didn't make the decision to release this guy. Bush's administration made that decision. If they did so under pressure from the left, well, then be mad at the Bush administration for caving.
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