Democrats Leave Gitmo Closing Money Out Of Bill

Source: Associated Press

(05-04) 14:09 PDT WASHINGTON, (AP) --

Amid fears that terror suspects could be brought to the U.S., House Democrats on Monday rebuffed the Obama administration's request for $50 million to relocate prisoners from the detention facility at Guantanamo, Cuba.

House Appropriations Committee Chairman David Obey, D-Wis., dropped the request from a $94.2 billion measure funding military and diplomatic efforts in Iraq and Afghanistan through the fall.

At the same time, Obey served notice that President Barack Obama's move to boost troop levels and increase the tempo of military operations in Afghanistan had better show results or else he would rethink his support of the effort.

The bill, which was released to key lawmakers Monday, registers about $9 billion more than Obama's $84.9 billion request, reflecting additional money for procurement of cargo planes, armored combat vehicles, helicopters and other items. About $3 billion was added above Obama's $7 billion request for foreign aid accounts, including security aid to Israel, funding to help Mexico fight drug cartels, and $100 million to fight AIDS and other diseases in places like Haiti and the Congo.

Obey also boosted the administration's $1.5 billion request to fight the flu to $2 billion.

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How much can it cost to shut down a torture camp?

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Let there be no place where the law cannot reach.

Sigh.

Charter a plane, lock them up, load them on, and drop them off. Do the world tour!

What a colossal mess moron* and his room full of dopes left in their wake.

There's the cost of housing them, feeding them, legal representation, prosecution costs, etc.

Imagine that!

Good grief are we setting them up in hotels? 50 million dollars? Did it cost that much to get them here? Let the Bush crew pay for it. I'm sure they've made 50 mill in the past 8 years.:dilemma:

living in their district ?

prisoners at 277. How in the world could it cost $50 million to move 277 prisoners?

You could put all 277 of these people on three C-130s and fly them anywhere for far less than $50 million. They're worried about the fact that once they start looking into this shit, at least half those people are going to turn out to be asshole neighbors.

Let me explain: You're an Afghani man whose next-door neighbor is an asshole. He likes nothing more than to upset the tranquility of the neighborhood. Allah be praised but you hate that man. So...when the US forces started offering rewards for the names of terrorists, you were first in line. "Hamid, who lives right next to me, is a terrorist. Please take him away." In reality, Hamid's NOT a terrorist, but try telling that to the US forces.

Unfortunately for Hamid, he's now been waterboarded so many times he thinks he's Osama bin Laden.

Anyway, once we investigate everyone in Gitmo we're going to find a lot of Hamids, and we'll have to pay reparations to them all.

Hell if they get good attorneys they will get more than 50 million each when they sue.

And even if these folks are terrorists (and I don't believe it for a moment), they've still done less damage than the huge funds and banks have done to the country.

No, not being sarcastic.

Thanks to the gutless Dems in the House of Reps.

Mostly cowardly fraidy cats

The terrorists can be re-trained as librarians and there would be money to spare.

Good times GWB assh*le.

have a maximum security prison in their district? Getting funding for that?

I have a sex offenders detention center not far from where I live. I don't like the men housed there but its not like they're out mingling with the public.

detainees, with community approval. http://www.billingsgazette.net/articles/2009/04/23/news/state/21-hardin.txt