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Oman says it has accepted 10 inmates from the US prison at Guantanamo Bay ahead of President Barack Obama leaving office.
[...] Oman said it accepted the prisoners at Obama's request. It did not name the prisoners.
"To meet a request by the US government to assist in settling the issue of the detainees at Guantanamo, out of consideration of their humanitarian situation, 10 people released from that prison arrived in the Sultanate of Oman for a temporary residency," a foreign ministry statement said.
19 of the remaining 55 prisoners at Guantanamo Bay were cleared for release just days ago.
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There *__is* intelligent life on Earth, but I leave for Texas on Monday.
(Score: 5, Insightful) by bob_super on Tuesday January 17 2017, @07:04PM
You'll have to wait a few hours for mod points to refill, sorry.
Obama came in trying to undo the Bush-era divisions and hyper-partisanship. The democrats could have passed anything, but they spent too much time trying to get the republicans to buy in the ideas, so dems would be protected against accusations of abusing their power, which are so easily used in elections.
In the end, they lost the elections anyway, courtesy of a bunch of assholes who reward obstructionism and conspiracies (and quite a few reasonable people who just woke up and went to vote).
Obama should have been an ass pushing his agenda in the first two years. The reps played him and the clock masterfully. Even last year, he didn't fight for his right to nominate a SCOTUS justice, as he was entitled to.
Guy was too nice for the bully pulpit, and dealing with bullies. Amazing he achieved so much, though it's not clear how much will survive the next 2 years.
(Score: 4, Insightful) by Bot on Tuesday January 17 2017, @07:18PM
> so dems would be protected against accusations of abusing their power, which are so easily used in elections.
The same dems so attentive not to abuse their power are now intentionally messing things up for the incoming Trump.
Let us face it, there is one to do list and it is split between blue and reds.
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(Score: 1, Touché) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday January 17 2017, @07:27PM
I share your self-righteousness. Only Republican presidents are allowed that privilege.
(Score: 2, Informative) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday January 17 2017, @07:53PM
> The same dems so attentive not to abuse their power are now intentionally messing things up for the incoming Trump.
Bullshit. Name examples, don't just hand-wave like a pusillanimous partisan.
What I have seen the democrats do is get busy trying to secure as much of Obama's work as they can.
That's not obstructionism in any fashion, that's making sure what was actually accomplished stays accomplished.
Obstructionism is gridlock for gridlock's sake. That's not going to happen for at least 2 years, probably more, since not only do the republicans have the presidency, they've got majorities in both houses of congress and will soon have a majority on the supreme court.
(Score: 1, Interesting) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday January 17 2017, @10:20PM
Can't stop the conservative white folk oppression meme. It's the flipside of the Civil Rights movement and the general tolarance/PC movement, except it doesn't have any moral integrity. The only integrity I've seen is with the concerns about offshoring jobs.
Civil rights? They're taking away muh bigotry! Abortions? They're taking away muh sense of moral superiority! Government programs of any type? They're stealin' muh monies!
This is why we can't have nice things, because a good portion of people want to bring their self-righteous boot down on things which do not affect their own lives. Then the politicians and media use that emotional naivety to split the public apart.
I will stick to the actual data which shows the Republicans on the losing side of progress, and the Democrats overreaching to create a police state. Let's see if we can take the good parts of each side and leave the ghouls behind.
(Score: 1) by butthurt on Tuesday January 17 2017, @11:46PM
Bullshit. Name examples, don't just hand-wave like a pusillanimous partisan.
One need look no farther than the headline: "ten detainees released from Guantanamo." Mr. Obama has also commuted Chelsea Manning's sentence.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday January 17 2017, @11:52PM
You're an idiot. Those detainees should never have been there in the first place. The main reason why they're still there is that it's illegal for the President to bring them to the US. There's literally a completely empty federal penitentiary that could have housed them.
As for commuting Chelsea Manning's sentence, that's well within his powers, the only real question is why he lacked the stones to do it earlier. At bare minimum he could have done it in November after the elections were over.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday January 18 2017, @12:35AM
In what way is following up on the very first executive order that he signed on entering office eight years ago being obstructionist to Trump?
Commuting Manning's sentence doesn't obstruct anything the republicans would do.
You need to take a good hard look at yourself and ask what could possibly posses you to believe those were legitimate examples of democrats obstructing Trump?
Because from where I am sitting it looks like your brain is so strung out on partisanship that you literally can't think straight.
(Score: 1) by butthurt on Wednesday January 18 2017, @01:38AM
https://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=Poe%27s+Law [urbandictionary.com]
(Score: 2) by butthurt on Wednesday January 18 2017, @02:34PM
In what way is following up on the very first executive order that he signed on entering office eight years ago being obstructionist to Trump?
I was joking, but (I was surprised to learn) earlier this month Mr. Trump specifically asked Mr. Obama not to release the prisoners:
There should be no further releases from Gitmo. These are extremely dangerous people and should not be allowed back onto the battlefield.
-- https://twitter.com/realDonaldTrump/status/816333480409833472 [twitter.com]
The Miami Herald had a story about it. [miamiherald.com]
(Score: 2) by bob_super on Wednesday January 18 2017, @01:32AM
> ten detainees released from Guantanamo
You're right, it's very misleading.
"Ten innocent people finally freed from arbitrary decade-long imprisonment, while at least 9 more innocents still face excessive release delays" would be better.
The version addressing the other 36 extrajudicial/tortured/rendered/Gulaged/too scary for SuperMax/too scary for actual justice but still technically innocent persons was getting a bit wordy.
(Score: 2) by Bot on Wednesday January 18 2017, @11:55PM
> Bullshit. Name examples, don't just hand-wave like a pusillanimous partisan
Nice troll anon, let us pretend it worked
- 35 diplomats expelled while infusing units near NATO borders with Russia, Putin does not reciprocate ending up looking like the moderate one.
- US abstains as UN demands end to Israeli settlements, strange time to wake up about israel, less than one month before leaving office.
- Trump says good things about FCA
Next day FCA is on the news for dieselgate. Problem, they were under scrutiny for the past year, yet it comes out now.
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