Seen on the street in Kyiv.

Words of Advice:

"If Something Seems To Be Too Good To Be True, It's Best To Shoot It, Just In Case." -- Fiona Glenanne

“The Mob takes the Fifth. If you’re innocent, why are you taking the Fifth Amendment?” -- The TOFF *

"Foreign Relations Boil Down to Two Things: Talking With People or Killing Them." -- Unknown

“Speed is a poor substitute for accuracy.” -- Real, no-shit, fortune from a fortune cookie

"If you believe that you are talking to G-d, you can justify anything.” — my Dad

"Colt .45s; putting bad guys in the ground since 1873." -- Unknown

"Stay Strapped or Get Clapped." -- probably not Mr. Rogers

"The Dildo of Karma rarely comes lubed." -- Unknown

"Eck!" -- George the Cat

* "TOFF" = Treasonous Orange Fat Fuck, A/K/A Dolt-45,
A/K/A Commandante (or Cadet) Bone Spurs,
A/K/A El Caudillo de Mar-a-Lago, A/K/A the Asset., A/K/A P01135809

Wednesday, June 10, 2009

Obama Administration: Naked Political Cowardice

In this morning's WaPo:
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. ...

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.
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.

So rather than resettle these men in our country, we'll bribe pay Palau $200 million to exile take them? For $1.7 million a head, we could resettle them nicely in this country, complete with a first-class education and language classes, and save $170 million.

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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