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David Stanley Ford

Sen. Jim Inhofe joins group fighting to keep prisoners in Cuba

BY CHRIS CASTEEL    Comments Comment on this article13
Published: February 11, 2009


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WASHINGTONSen. Jim Inhofe on Tuesday helped a nonpartisan group launch a media ad opposing President Barack Obama’s order to close the U.S. prison at Guantanamo Bay.

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Inhofe, R-Tulsa, praised the group, Move America Forward, and said he is pushing legislation that would prevent any of the prisoners from being moved to prisons in the United States.

Inhofe, who recently returned from a visit to the prison in Cuba, said the detainees are treated well and that the prison is serving a valuable purpose.

Asked whether the prisoners should remain at the prison indefinitely, Inhofe said, "I wish there were more choices. There really aren’t. I guess we could execute them. Do you want to do that?”

Melanie Morgan, Move America Forward chairman, said Obama’s "misguided” decision to close the prison would "impact the safety of every American.”

Attending the news conference were relatives of people killed in the 9/11 attacks and in the war in Iraq. The group’s television ad asks people to sign a petition opposing Obama’s order.

The president met last week with victims’ relatives of the 9/11 and USS Cole attacks and said he thinks closing the prison would keep the nation safe and ensure "swift and certain justice” for the detainees, according to the White House.

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Richard, what evidence do you have to say President Obama is a traitor? you know something, you need to get over yourself and realize that the majority of Americans disagree with you. You can either be an American and work to build our country back to a place it deserves to be or you can be a traitor to the flag you so claim to love and be a ignorant SOB that only thinks of himself before country. grow up and if you can prove the crap you spew from your mouth bring it. show your cards because you won't because you are just a bitter white guy that can't handle the fact that America is changing trying to form that more perfect union. You know make a choice are you an American or are you not. because the way your acting in the forums and the vial crap you write in here makes me believe you are about as ant-American as one could be.
Michael, Yukon - Feb 11, 2009 at 11:15 pm
way to go jim, keep the traitor in the white house straight and not helping our enimies as he is showing he wants to do as all the demoliar party has been doing since the days of vietnam. the lost of military lives is directly tied to the mouth pieces of the demoliars, hanoi jane and that penn idiot, smurtha
richard, oklahoma city - Feb 11, 2009 at 3:13 pm
Inhofe is the typical white okie fool. The US people want these detainees released - they have done nothing - and that is why they elected ME!
Buzz Lightyear, OKC - Feb 11, 2009 at 12:36 pm
Scoresby, who are you trying to fool. Using the the Republican talking point of the scare tactic to tell everyone that they will living among us. Come on, get honest here. If you can. You do realize that this country has many people incarcerated now that are far more dangerous in prisons close to yours and my home right now. Who are you trying to kid here. If they stick them among the regular population of prisoners, it is the Gitmo detainees that need to worry about themselves and their safety. Scoresby don't come here and urinate on our collective legs and try to convince us it's raining. Look at all of the responses so far to see that even in Oklahoma, in the ultra-ultra-conservative DOK comment section, the policies of the Neo-Cons and the "Bushees" is a failed dead ideolgy. Try not to heed those who want to see the country fail (Rush Lamebrain types), to advance some crazy right wing political agenda they have. Scoresby, you can best be characterized in a quote by Lord Byron "There are none so blind as those who will not see".
stynker, Scottsdale - Feb 11, 2009 at 11:57 am
Why does the online DO place pictures of individuals unrelated to the story alongside the story??
John, Norman - Feb 11, 2009 at 11:37 am
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Does Senator irrevelant know who the commander in chief is?? Move America is hardly a non partisan group. A search on Wikipedia quickly debunks the assertion that this is a non-partisan group. Move America Forward is a controversial conservative non profit political action group based in California in the United States headed by Republican activists. Through media-saturation campaigns that include television and radio commercials;lobbying politicians at the local, state, and federal levels; and by encouraging grass-roots activism, Move America Forward has sought to advance a conservative agenda that includes the removal of the United Nations headquarters from the United States, a petition directed at President Barack Obama to keep the Guantanamo Bay detention camp open,the recalling of state governors it deems too "liberal," restricting what it terms "liberal" or "activist" media, the closing of the U.S.-Mexico border and the deportation of illegal aliens back to their country of origin, opposition of what it deems "liberal" political candidates and political action groups, and advocacy for conservative political candidates and appointees. Move America Forward vocally supports and advocates the policies of the Bush Administration. Move America Forward (MAF), part of a pro-war lobby, is headed by California Republican activists, talk show hosts and staff members of the public relations firm Russo Marsh & Rogers, which has strong ties to the Republican Party. PR professional Sal Russo is the chief strategist for MAF. It is a conservative 501c3 not-for-profit organization formed in early 2004 by Howard Kaloogian and "acclaimed radio and television personality" Melanie Morgan (formerly of KSFO 560 AM -- San Francisco). As a non-profit organization it is not required to reveal its funders to the public.

Melanie Morgan is MAF chairman and a columnist for WorldNetDaily, and author of the book America Mourning. She gained national notoriety in the summer of 2006 when she suggested that Bill Keller, an editor of the New York Times, be killed in a "gaschamber" for alleged "treason" after the Times' reporting on US government spying on Americans. Yes indeed


John, Norman - Feb 11, 2009 at 10:13 am
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Lunatic fringe
I know you're out there
You're in hiding
And you hold your meetings
We can hear you coming
We know what you're after
We're wise to you this time
We won't let you kill the laughter.

Lunatic fringe
In the twilight's last gleaming
This is open season
But you won't get too far
We know you've got to blame someone
For your own confusion
But we're on guard this time
Against your final solution

We can hear you coming
(We can hear you coming)
No you're not going to win this time
We can hear the footsteps
(We can hear the footsteps)
Way out along the walkway
Lunatic fringe
We know you're out there
But in these new dark ages
There will still be light

An eye for an eye;
Well before you go under...
Can you feel the resistance?
Can you feel the thunder?
James, Norman - Feb 11, 2009 at 8:46 am
Sec Gates is involved in making suggestions for the location of the Gitmo prisoners as I'm not concerned about them being a threat to the U.S. I'd just as soon send them to the Afgans and Iraqis and let them live in their prisons.

I would have preferred Sen. Inhofe to have stayed home and done a little bipartisan work on the stimulus bill. It would have sure helped OKlahoma and America to have had an incentive for using more natural gas. But, instead Inhofe just chose to blindly oppose a bill that he knew was going to pass in some form.
leonard, Norman - Feb 11, 2009 at 8:35 am
I'm sorry, I meant to address Scoresby, not Michael.
Anonymous, The Internet - Feb 11, 2009 at 8:02 am
I have no problem with keeping prisoners at Gitmo. What I have a problem with is how it's being done. Either they are prisoners of war or they are being held on criminal charges. That's the way it should be done. Unfortunately, that's not been the case. They are being held indefinitely with no charges against them and no rights.

Michael, you would do well to remember the words of Nietzsche: "Whoever fights monsters should see to it that in the process he does not become a monster. And if you gaze long enough into an abyss, the abyss will gaze back into you."
Anonymous, The Internet - Feb 11, 2009 at 8:01 am
Michael (both of you below). Perhaps in your compassion and concern for these terrorists rights you would welcome them to stay in your homes or communities? Please let us know when they'll arrive so the rest of us, who know they (the gitmo detainees) want to kill us, can wall you both off from our society until their trials are over.
Say it, isn't so - Feb 11, 2009 at 7:54 am
Apparently Inhofe you are still out of touch with what America wants. You can choose to listen to Americans including those who do not agree with you in your own state or fear becoming more irrelevant. Obama has this right and apparently they had cleaned and dressed the water boarding equipment so you could say they are well taken care of. do you think the smoke screen you are blowing up our rears is that believable.
Michael, Yukon - Feb 11, 2009 at 5:37 am
Obama has this one right! Gitmo is nothing more than a recruitment tool for terrorists. If the people we are holding there are guilty (and I beleive that many of them probably are) then bring them into a court, give them an opportunity to defend themselves, and if they are found guilty then throw the book at them. Holding people without giving them an opportunity to prove their innocence goes against everything we stand for as a country and it certainly goes against what our brave young men and women that wear the uniform have been fighting and dying for. Gitmo was a mistake from day one and it is high time we shut it down. Inhofe is wrong on this one.
Michael, Oklahoma City - Feb 11, 2009 at 12:14 am

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