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[johnny9fingers]

A former detainee at Gitmo has been named as the deputy leader of Al Qaeda in Yemen.

http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2009/jan/23/yemen-guantanamo-alqaida

This is being touted as a reason why Obama should not close Gitmo: despite of course the fact that Said Ali al-Shihri was released into Saudi custody by the Bush administration.

If it didn't work for GWB....let's keep doing it because it still won't work for Obama. Brilliant thinking except.....evidently Obama's version of Gitmo can't afford to be as lenient as GWB's: I don't know how they come up with this sort of logic sometimes. But let me repeat....GWB's version of Gitmo couldn't stop Said Ali al-Shihri from becoming the Al Qaeda number 2 in Yemen.
What some folk really want is the involuntary internment of all Terrorists, Muslims, Darwinists,  Democrats, Palin-ridiculers, Perverts, anti-gun campaigners, and everyone from San Francisco: which is, as we know, Babylon-on-sea.

When folk draw stupid lines in the sand, calling it 'common sense'.....

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[ankh156.livejournal.com]

If those conservatives and republican brains were dynamite, it would even ruffle their haircuts ...

The story would also seem to suggest that detention in Gitmo is very effective at hardening the determination of would-be-terrorists (or even non-terrorists) to wreak revenge upon american interests by acts of violence and destruction. Al-Qaeda was invented by the CIA and its chief recruiting officer was George 'shit-fer-brains' Bush and his bellicose cronies.

I think President Barry has gotten off to a flying start - what, what ?

[johnny9fingers.livejournal.com]

So far so good with Barry. He appears to have the gravitas sadly missing from the role these past eight years. He seems a big man, but I fear he's got an even bigger job ahead of him. Whether he can unite the American people and get them all pulling in the same direction is questionable: there may be worse ahead than just our petty internecine squabbles about p'litics or the God/NotGod question.

You remember that rock that is going to miss us in twenty years time or so....well it is going to miss then....but depending on the degree of perturbation or whatever it may be a lot closer on the next pass, which is some short-ish time later (a couple of decades if I recall rightly).

This aside from '4 years to save the world' as we know it.

In their latter years the educated skeptical few watched the superstitious masses in their orgy of willful ignorance and feared for their children and their children's children. But such is the end of all civilisations. 'Not with a bang, but a whimper' as the poet said. Or not in this case, perhaps. Hey-ho there you go, there's always something worse just around the corner.

'We're doomed' said John Laurie.

[johnny9fingers.livejournal.com]

It's called 'an underlying sense of optimism' and contributes marvellously to good humour. Following the love interest thread in your blog.....pretty certain you have a bounce in your step too.