{"id":35792,"date":"2013-05-23T17:08:08","date_gmt":"2013-05-23T21:08:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=35792"},"modified":"2013-05-23T17:08:08","modified_gmt":"2013-05-23T21:08:08","slug":"playing-to-the-band","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=35792","title":{"rendered":"Playing to the band"},"content":{"rendered":"

So, the President made another windbag speech today this one about national defense in the forms of drone strikes and Guantanamo and it was really nothing more than playing to his base trying to look like the anti-Bush again. Of course, the reasons that he’s cleaved to the drone program and Guantanamo is because this administration has no real solutions beyond what President Bush started. But, in the wake of the recent spate of scandals, Obama knows he can’t get his base on board to continue on with his programs while even Jon Stewart is taking shots at him. From Fox News<\/a>;<\/p>\n

He also spoke in detail about his long-stalled effort to close Guantanamo Bay. He said that the administration is looking for a site inside the U.S. to hold military commissions, while looking to transfer detainees outside of the prison camp once again. <\/p>\n

In re-affirming his pledge to close the detention center at Guantanamo, Obama is pushing for a renewed effort to transfer its 166 detainees to other countries. Congress and the White House have sparred since Obama took office in 2009 over the fate of the suspects and whether they can be brought to trial on U.S. soil. In the meantime, the detainees have been held for years with diminishing hope that they will charged with a crime or be given a trial.\n<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Yeah, well, the detainees in Guantanamo are conducting a hunger strike because they know they can move Obama and his policy using that strategy whereas they couldn’t use it against Bush. I’m sure they all thought they’d be released on January 21st, 2009, like Jimmy Carter’s amnesty for draft dodgers his first day in office. <\/p>\n

On drones, Obama defended the decision to order a strike on U.S. citizen Anwar al-Awlaki in Yemen. “He was continuously trying to kill people,” Obama said of the Al Qaeda operative. <\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Trying? al-Awlaki actually had people killed. Carlos Bledsoe actually killed one soldier and wounded another under the influence of al-Awliki in Arkansas. Nidal Hassan killed at least 13 people at Fort Hood, TX at al-Awliki’s behest. Neither Bledsoe nor Hassan have been charged as terrorists, so I guess we can’t really call al-Awliki a terrorist, either.<\/p>\n

By the way, Susie Benjamin, the chief hag at Code Pink was at obama’s speech today and she heckled him. I guess Code Pink’s income has been flagging what with two terms of Obama and everything. But, here’s the video;
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