New TV Ad Opposes Closure of Gitmo: MAF Leaders Joined by Families of Victims of 9/11 Attack

WASHINGTON DC – Move America Forward, the nation’s largest grassroots, pro-troop organization, today released a television commercial condemning President Obama’s order to close the camps at Guantanamo Bay.

The new commercial, which was presented at a press conference at the National Press Club, opposes re-locating terrorists to U.S. sites, including Fort Leavenworth, Kansas, Camp Pendleton California, and the Navy Brig at Charleston, South Carolina. Citizens are asked to sign a petition at www.moveamericaforward.org opposing Obama’s plans.

 

 

“President Obama doesn’t have plans for the terrorists who have been safely kept at Gitmo. His policy is reckless and dangerous to Americans,” said MAF Chairman Melanie Morgan. “He has talked about sending them back to their home countries or may even bring them to the United States. This is pure madness and totally unnecessary.”

Joining Morgan at the podium were Sen. James Inhofe (R-Oklahoma), Families of Victims of the 9/11 terrorist attacks, and Gold Star mother Debbie Lee.

“President Obama’s decision to shut down Guantanamo Bay could have a devastating impact on our national security and is simply unacceptable,” Inhofe said. “I am working hand in hand with the Oklahoma delegation and through my position on the Senate Armed Services Committee, to prevent these terrorists from coming to my state or any state on American soil.”

Inhofe, on February 3, introduced legislation that would prevent Obama’s Administration from transferring Guantanamo detainees to American soil. Inhofe is a senior member of the Senate Armed Services Committee, and recently returned from a fact-finding mission to Guantanamo Bay.

“I’m very concerned that the President’s order to close the detention camps is part of a disturbing pattern of risky decisions,” Morgan said. “From restricting interrogation techniques to asking the Pentagon to make huge budget cuts, Obama has clearly demonstrated that he doesn’t know the stakes we face in our war with radical jihadists.”
Move America Forward also visited the terrorist camps at Guantanamo Bay during the Christmas holidays and saw firsthand the conditions of the prisoners and the professionalism of U.S. troops.

“I believe it is important for the American people to know the real value of this installation and its contribution to the security of the United States,” Sen. Inhofe said. “The military detention facilities at GTMO meet the highest international standards and have a fundamental part in protecting the lives of Americans from terrorism.”

Gold Star mom Debbie Lee went to Guantanamo Bay with MAF, and she is dismayed that Obama insists on closing the prison even though he has never even visited the facilities himself.

“My son, Marc Alan Lee, gave his life in Iraq fighting the terrorists over there. Now, President Obama’s policy risks bringing those terrorists here,” Lee said. “It’s dangerous to Americans and our troops; no terrorist should ever have to be captured twice.”
Scores of former Gitmo detainees have already been freed and have returned to terrorism. One of the released prisoners, Said Ali al-Shihri, 35, is believed to have been involved in the bombing of the US Embassy in Yemen that killed an 18-year-old American citizen.

Several 9/11 families also came to show their support including; Debra Burlingame, Hamilton Peterson, Geraldine Davie and Lorraine Beliveau.

Burlingame’s brother, Charles “Chic” Burlingame, was the pilot of the plane that hit the Pentagon on 9/11. Debra is a member of 911familiesforamerica.org, and is very critical of Obama’s plan to shutter Gitmo. Debra met with President Obama with other families of terror victims earlier this week where Obama tried to explain his reasoning for closing Gitmo and putting the trials to a halt. She was not swayed by the President’s arguments.

“At the meeting, President Obama acknowledged that Gitmo was not like Abu Ghirab. Nevertheless he insisted that the camps at Gitmo had to be shutdown because they were ‘symbols’ to the rest of the world,” revealed Burlingame. “I was disturbed that he recognized this, yet still chose to place world opinion over the truth about Gitmo and our children’s safety.”

The U.S. Senate already passed a resolution in 2007 94-3 stating, “Detainees housed at Guantanamo should not be released into American society, nor should they be transferred stateside into facilities in American communities and neighborhoods.”

“It is frightening that President Obama would ignore the will of the Senate and of the American people,” MAF chairman Morgan said. “What our Commander in Chief should do is overturn his previous order and change his focus to protecting America from the very grave threats to our safety, not creating new ones.”

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Guantanamo Closure Plan Ordered: Who Want’s ‘Em?

No one that’s who…

US Defense Secretary Robert Gates has ordered plans to be drafted for the closure of the Guantanamo Bay detention centre, the Pentagon says.

A team was looking at moving inmates from the facility in a way that continued to protect the American people, a spokesman said.

About 250 detainees remain in the controversial Cuba camp.

US President-elect Barack Obama says closing the camp “in a responsible way” is one of his top priorities.

Mr Obama, who takes office on 20 January, said earlier this week he aimed to close the facility within two years.

Pentagon spokesman Geoff Morrell said Mr Gates – who is to retain his position in the new administration – had wanted to be prepared in case Mr Obama wished to tackle the issue “early in his tenure”.

“He has asked his team for a proposal on how to shut it down, what will be required specifically to close it and move the detainees from that facility, and at the same time protect the American people from dangerous terrorists,” he said.

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We all know that one of the largest obstacles to shutting this place down is going to be finding a country willing to take the suicidal knuckleheads in.  Personally I’m in favor of an unexplained fire.  Problem solved!

Here’s a few things you may not have known about some of the failed jihadi merry men that may make you consider opening your doors to them or possibly renting out that Miami condo your Auntie Grace left you.

In no particular order:

Ibrahim al-Adham is good with children (he’s fathered 16) and can cook an egg 213 different ways.  His egg cooking prowess won him many wives and goats prior to being captured by American forces on the battlefield where he was found cowering in a hole clutching an unloaded 9mm and a copy of Obama’s book, “The Audacity of Hope.”

Can he come live with you?

Yusuf Abu Baseer al-A Asimi is fond of goats and young boys.  His talents include sweet talking young boy’s into his tent with his dreamy eyes and then not calling the next day.  In his circle of influence he is known as quite the player and free style rapper.

Can he come live with you?

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Attiya Allah unfortunately is the victim of centuries of inbreeding and is pretty much useless other than his uncanny ability to quote Sean Penn movies and touch his elbow with is own tongue, a talent not lost on the local goat herd.  Hates kids, hates women, pretty much hates humans in general…

Can he come live with you?

NOTE: If you voted for Pelosi or Reid you may not know I made this up… I’m still in favor of the fire idea…

Gitmo Lawyer Shows His Ass

David Remes, a lawyer representing 15 Yemeni detainees at Guantanamo dropped his trousers and lifted his shirt in a press conference in Yemen to demonstrate how guards daily humiliated his clients. No Remes didn’t drop his tidy whities he showed his ass with his remarks.

“I’d been to Guantanamo in mid-June,  and there’s a certain amount of normalcy that has settled over the normal miserable conditions of confinement, which amount to solitary confinement without sleep and without sunlight and without anyone to talk to. So at the news conference, I said that, in addition to this torment, which has become so typical that we don’t even talk about it anymore, now the torment also consists of constant body searches in which the men are required to pull their shirts up to their chest, drop their pants, and then the corn-fed U.S. military sticks their thumbs under the prisoner’s underwear band and circles the prisoner’s torsos. At the press conference in Yemen — this is a society where the rule of morality is so strict — I wanted to drive home the degree of humiliation that these searches cause by illustrating a typical body search. The physical abuse they can stand. The verbal abuse they can stand. But when the military punishes Muslim men by shaving off their beard, or by forcing them to disrobe — for a Muslim man that is a thousand times more cutting than a Westerner can imagine. And that’s what I was trying to dramatize. The reaction to what I did makes me very sad. I wish people paid as much attention to the suffering and torment in Guantanamo as they paid to the way I sought to dramatize it.”

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