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Originally posted by Hank Chinaski
I believe Bush would like there not to be guys at Gitmo(I'm not trying to sound butch, I just know I can't spell it). He was stuck having to do something with them- with no blueprint of what to do. With a few exceptions they are people who would like to blow up your kid's school because God told them to. I don't want them on the street, Bush doesn't and probably you don't.
He came up with a plan- and the Supreme Court by 5-3 said "get Congress to make you a plan." That's all. Now you guys with your chorus of how clearly wrong it was seem to be ignoring how close the vote was. What clear guidence that he was heading down the wrong path do you really see?
This isn't some major rebuke. Those guys aren't going anywhere.
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Are you kidding? This case smashed the Administration's theory of the Unitary Executive so forcefully that they have David Addington on a 24 hour suicide watch. I don't care if it was 5-3, 5-4 or if SCOTUS had to go to Rock, Paper, Scissors. It's the law now.
I'd be more sympathetic to your characterization of the President as just a poor guy with a job to do and no blueprint to go by if the Administration hadn't spent the last 5 years telling Congress and the courts to go fuck themselves, thank you very much, because they, the grownups, have a plan, the Constitutional authority, and trust us because we don't need no fucking oversight either.
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ETA: And it's not as if we've been saying that they had to empty Gitmo and put 450 guys on the NY subway tomorrow. Notably, a
WaPo poll finds that 71 percent of folks think that the Gitmo detainees should either be given POW status, or charged with a crime.
