Murtha Would Take Gitmo Prisoners Into His District Because They’re Not Cold Blooded Killers Like U.S. Marines
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Murtha Says He’d Take Guantanamo Prisoners in His District
Rep. Jack Murtha volunteers to house prisoners from Guantanamo Bay in his Pennsylvania district, as President Obama prepares to order the shut-down of the facility.
By Chad Pergram
Rep. Jack Murtha, D-Pa., says he’d be willing to house prisoners from Guantanamo Bay in his congressional district if President Obama makes good on a plan to close the U.S. prison there.
As one of his first acts in office, the president circulated a draft Wednesday that would shut down Guantanamo Bay within a year.
Murtha only has a minimum security prison in his district. But he says he’d have no reservations about holding detainees there in a maximum security prison.
“Sure, I’d take ‘em,” said Murtha, an outspoken critic of the Iraq war. “They’re no more dangerous in my district than in Guantanamo.”
Murtha added that there was “no reason not to put ‘em in prisons in the United States and handle them the way they would handle any other prisoners.”
But that idea disturbs House Minority Leader John Boehner, R-Ohio.
“Most communities around America don’t want dangerous terrorists imported into their neighborhoods,” Boehner said in a statement.
“The key question is where do you put these terrorists?” Boehner asked.
Rep. Lamar Smith, R-Texas, is introducing a bill that outlaws the release of a known terrorist into the U.S. Smith, the ranking Republican on the House Judiciary Committee, said it would be appalling to close Guantanamo.
“If terrorists suddenly get the same rights as citizens, then we’ve turned the world upside down,” Smith said. “We don’t think there should be a limit to their detention as long as they are a clear and present danger.”
House Armed Services Committee Chairman Ike Skelton, D-Mo., had hoped the president would close Guantanamo Bay. But he said he didn’t know how best to handle the prisoners.
“They’re very unsavory,” Skelton said. “I don’t know where you put them.”
However Skelton didn’t object to them staying in U.S. prisons so long as they weren’t housed together.
For his part, Murtha was encouraged by Obama’s proposal.
“I have said for two years that we should close down Guantanamo. Close it down. It’s a sore in the United States’ moral standards. What they have done there has hurt us,” he said.
On Sept. 11, 2001, Murtha represented Shanksville, Pa., where one of the four hijacked planes crashed.
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““Sure, I’d take ‘em,†said Murtha, an outspoken critic of the Iraq war. “They’re no more dangerous in my district than in Guantanamo.â€
except for the fact that the aclu will take up their case and our national secrets will spill…..
AND
if he only has a minimum security prison, does that mean he’s shooting for bail out money to fund a massive high security prison in his town????
I bet his constituency is going to freak out, they better anyway.
YAY, VOTERS! You idiots voted this shitstain back into office after he called you a bunch of rednecks and meant it as an insult. You get what you deserve. I hope you Pennsylvania morons DO get the Gitmo terrorists. I also hope you get a few new Superfund sites and LOTS of low-income housing!
Morons.
Everytime I see Murtha on TV, I call him names. None of them as good as “shitstain”
How about we put them up in your house, Murtha? How about YOU take care of them and feed them, etc. You wouldn’t live long because they’d slice your fat ugly throat. You are as complete a moron as is possible…and then some.
Murtha wants to bring murderers,who’s whole existence is to kill Americans to Pennsylvania.
They never should have made it off the battlefield.
Git-mo is the nicest place most of these animals ever lived. They should be kept there until the war on terror is over ( in other words forever) or until they die from old age.
It is a direct threat to every American if Obama plans on housing these savages on American soil.
Q Mech
Not all of us Rednecks voted for Murtha.
Thanks for all the well wishes.
Fun to watch…not one word was spoken about what these animals have done, in combat, to human beings. Notice who is outspoken against this coward? Republicans….another point of gact why Vincent left the Democratic Party in the mid-1990s. They do not care. Never have.
Read this Murtha confession three times slowly: “…I have said for two years that we should close down Guantanamo. Close it down. It’s a sore in the United States’ moral standards. What they have done there has hurt us…â€
Absolutely incredible man, who needs to go home. A coward by his own words. So Gitmo hurts us? What about the 1990s????????? Where the f***k were you????? With the rest of the Democrats and their folk hero, Clinton and Obama, deliberatly ignoring the bloodletting.
You should all be in prison for criminal malfeasance.
People are dead because you did nothing, and then spent the last eight years stabbing a good man in the back repeatedly, which add to it, treason. I am sure Conyers would never think of such charges.
Put ‘em in Pelican Bay “Super Max” State prison here in California and then those motherfuckers will start to get a taste of what real punishment might await them.
The ACLU routinely complains and tries to get Pelican Bay shut down, that’s the best recommendation I can think of.
Pa has it all- this Murtha idiot and a crescent monument to commemorate the 9/11 “let’s roll” heroes. God bless America.
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Dementia is one symptom of late stage syphilis.
Let’s do a trade. Send the detainees to PA’s 12th District and send Murtha to Gitmo. This way, the idiots who continually vote for him get their due and we get rid of Murtha.
You read my mind Mike..Let them get a dose of Pelican Bay Gladiator Academy…
Actually — Agree with Q_Mech . . . those “voters” in Pennsylvania who brought that piece of shit Murtha back . . . well, they would deserve it . . . but Murtha is just trying to get more pork bucks and he is too stupid to realize he is putting his community in danger.
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Problem is, no one outside of Cali-Stan has a clue of what were talking about.
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Agreed, and I believe that Murtha should be facing charges of Sedition and or Treason if “W” had a pair like most of us here do.
Also, I wonder how things might have turned out if “W” had tried to use the “Bully Pulpit” as affectively as Teddy Roosevelt did.
This guy is a traitor, pure and simple, and an asshole artifact of a dying group of greedy liberal politicians…
M - my, U - ultimate, R - raison d’etre, T - to, H - harm, A - America
So, if sell out Jack feel sthat way, why don’t we house them with his family? I am sure that a couple could fit into his personal residence. I bet he has children with their own houses as well, should be able to get one terrorist in each house. Then we can go and place one in the resdience of each party member, entertainer, MSM mouthpiece, etc that supported Murtha in his re-election.
If they are not willing to take them in, and take Jackass Jack at his word that those Gitmo detainees are harmless, I guess it would sort of put the lie to his and their words…