WELLINGTON, New Zealand -- The remote Pacific island nation of Palau said Wednesday it has agreed to a U.S. request to temporarily resettle up to 17 Chinese Muslims now held at the Guantanamo Bay detention center. ...This is nothing other than political cowardice. Nobody has shown an iota of evidence that the Uighurs have done anything wrong. They were sold to the US by bounty hunters and kept imprisoned by two administrations that both lacked the guts to admit to a mistake. The Obama Administration is running scared of the goons in the GOP who are frothing at the mouth at the idea that any detainee from GITMO, regardless of whether or not they did anything at all, might set foot in this country.
Two U.S. officials, who spoke on condition of anonymity, said the U.S. was prepared to give Palau up to $200 million in development, budget support and other assistance in return for accepting the Uighurs and as part of a mutual defense and cooperation treaty that is due to be renegotiated this year.
So rather than resettle these men in our country, we'll
This is not an act of generosity and humanitarianism towards the Uighurs. This is an act of craven political cowardice on the part of the Obama Administration.
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