Rep. King Fear-Mongers On Obama’s Plan To Close Gitmo: It Could Give 9/11 Mastermind A ‘Path To Citizenship’
Rep. King Fear-Mongers On Obama’s Plan To Close Gitmo: It Could Give 9/11 Mastermind A ‘Path To Citizenship’
Yesterday, President Obama signed an executive order requiring that Guantanamo Bay be closed within a year. Obama’s order has been criticized by some conservatives, such as Rep. Pete Hoekstra (R-MI), who issued a statement saying that it “places hope ahead of reality” and was “unnecessarily risking the safety of our nation.”
Discussing Obama’s plan to close Guantanamo on Mike Gallagher’s radio show yesterday, Rep. Steve King (R-IA) claimed that Obama’s actions could be “the beginning of shutting down…the activities of the CIA.” When Gallagher said that Obama wanted to “bestow American citizenship rights to somebody from another country” who wants “to murder civilian Americans,” King claimed that closing Gitmo could put 9/11 mastermind Khalid Sheik Mohammed “on a path to citizenship”:
KING: Let’s just say that, that, Khalid Sheikh Mohammed, the mastermind of 9/11, is brought to the United States to be tried in a federal court in the United States, under a federal judge, and we know what some of those judges do, and on a technicality, such as, let’s just say he wasn’t read his Miranda rights. … He is released into the streets of America. Walks over and steps up into a US embassy and applies for asylum for fear that he can’t go back home cause he spilled the beans on al Qaeda. What happens then if another judge grants him asylum in the United States and Khalid Sheikh Mohammed is on a path to citizenship. I mean, I give you the extreme example of this.
King then took a shot at efforts to increase access to health care for children, saying that if Gitmo were closed, detainees “could actually live in the United States legally, and maybe, and after Nancy Pelosi gets done with S-CHIP, they can tap into welfare while they’re at it.” Listen here:
King isn’t alone in his fear-mongering about the closing of Guantanamo Bay. Announcing legislation yesterday to prohibit federal courts from ordering the release or transfer of detainees from the facility onto U.S. soil, Rep. Lamar Smith (R-TX) declared that “closing Guantanamo Bay presents a clear and present danger to all Americans.”
As terrorism expert Peter Bergen noted on CNN last night, “the idea that somehow these terrorists are going to be released is just absolutely nonsensical.” “When terrorists have been tried in the United States, they go away forever,” said Bergen. “The embassy attackers in ‘98 who blew up two American embassies, they are in prison for life without parole.”
Transcript:
KING: I don’t know how he avoids closing Gitmo, but the part that says he would…that the information that I’m getting is that he will also close any secret detention we have anywhere in the globe. That’s the beginning of shutting down, in some degrees, the activities of the CIA.GALLAGHER: Well, what he’s doing, congressman, is breaking up the architecture of what has kept us safe since 9/11. And that’s what’s so terrifying. All of the foundation that President Bush put into place since 9/11 is being ripped apart by this new president, who clearly doesn’t think that these steps are necessary.
KING: I don’t think that he has, can have, the fear of the enemy or a decent respect for the capabilities of the enemy and move forward in this fashion. I cannot, and I’m a bit of a constitutionalist, but I cannot track the constitutional logic that would confer rights of citizenship, or rights of being an American, on these, our, enemy combatants.
GALLAGHER: On a foreign, a foreign terror suspect. I mean, that’s what he wants to do, is bestow American citizenship rights to somebody from another country, who wants to try, and the government alleges, has been involved in terror plots, to murder civilian Americans.
KING: Let’s just say that, that, Khalid Sheikh Mohammed, the mastermind of 9/11, is brought to the United States to be tried in a federal court in the United States, under a federal judge, and we know what some of those judges do, and on a technicality, such as, let’s just say he wasn’t read his Miranda rights.
GALLAGHER: Right.
KING: Pick another one, there are plenty of technicalities out there. He is released into the streets of America. Walks over and steps up into a US embassy and applies for asylum for fear that he can’t go back home cause he spilled the beans on al Qaeda. What happens then if another judge grants him asylum in the United States and Khalid Sheikh Mohammed is on a path to citizenship. I mean, I give you the extreme example of this, but we’ve got a couple of 150 folks there and the potential’s there for every single on of them to be brought to the United States and find a path through our laws, that they could actually live in the United States legally, and maybe, and after Nancy Pelosi gets done with SCHIP, they can tap into welfare while they’re at it.
GALLAGER: Congressman Steve King, our guest here on the Mike Gallagher Show.
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Isn’t there some provision in the Constitution for removing a legislator who exhibits signs of raving lunacy?
If there isn’t, there should be.
January 23rd, 2009 at 4:04 pmHow dumb can the Representative from Iowa get?!
Do Republicans even read the Constitution and the laws of our nation anymore?
January 23rd, 2009 at 4:07 pmI’m to the point where I think that if these Republicans are allowed to speak in public and sway the sheep in this country with their fear mongering retoric, that they could invariably return to power and finish the job of destroying America that the Bush Administration started.
Obstructionists should be ostracized in this country. We as a civilized society should not allow it.
January 23rd, 2009 at 4:07 pmOh yeah… the man in the picture… that’s someone I’d feel comfortable leaving alone w/ small children… NOT!
January 23rd, 2009 at 4:08 pmHopefully after that terrorist becomes a citizen he can go to barber college and fix this guy’s comb over.
January 23rd, 2009 at 4:10 pmUm, let’s say for the moment that there is even the slightest possibility of US citizenship, doesn’t one have to actually pursue gaining citizenship? After their experiences in Gitmo, I kinda doubt anyone held there who is found to be innocent after trial would want to become an American citizen.
Way to fear-monger some more, King. Reminds me of the KKK rhetoric about black men going after white women. Now STFU and fade away.
PEACE
January 23rd, 2009 at 4:11 pmA beagle has better thought processes than King. He couldn’t get more ridiculous if he tried. Allowing these people their right to due process under the law has absolutely nothing to making them citizens. Do these people even know how stupid they sound? They sure aren’t going to give up on the fear factor.
January 23rd, 2009 at 4:14 pmWow. These guys won’t be happy until we have another Civil War.
January 23rd, 2009 at 4:14 pmDespite that threat to America that Rep. King represents, this comment made me laugh.
January 23rd, 2009 at 4:15 pmDespite my usual progressive credentials, I’m with Rep. King on that.
Every night, I go to sleep with the fear that, before I wake up, terrorists will seek asylum here and then stay because they can get free medical care for their children. I have no greater fear.
I can deal with terrorists getting asylum. This is a free country, and like Rep. King, believe that judges will do what they do. But the children of terrorists getting medical care? That is too horrible to contemplate.
January 23rd, 2009 at 4:17 pmToday’s Republican Party presents a clear and present danger, not just to all Americans, but to every human being on Earth.
January 23rd, 2009 at 4:17 pmPolice havent read people their Miranda rights in this country for quite some time.
January 23rd, 2009 at 4:18 pmCaption: Hannibal Lecture
January 23rd, 2009 at 4:18 pmHe is released into the streets of America. Walks over and steps up into a US embassy and applies for asylum.
S. King: For your information, there are NO US embassy in the US.
January 23rd, 2009 at 4:19 pmAre you stopid or something??
Sounds like this guy (along w/limbaugh, oreilly, hannity, miller, etc etc)
January 23rd, 2009 at 4:20 pmhave decided that everyone at Gitmo is guilty, don’t need no stinking trials, just kill them all..that’ll fix it..
I am soooooo f**kin tired of these anti-constitution, anti-law, anti americans who vomit double-speak and fear…
“… and then what happens if KSM invites little elves to come visit him in his Fairfax, VA split-level, and it turns out that they’re not really little elves, but in fact green men from the planet Mars, and they start going ‘Ack! Ack!” and shooting doves and incinerating Metro cars, and we need to hastily draft Tom Jones to sing and save Amur’kah from this dreadful calamity?!?!? What then, I tellya…. Are we Real Amur’kuns going to allow this to happen?!?!?”
Cheers,
January 23rd, 2009 at 4:20 pmI get so tired of the feigned outrage and the use of fear..as if a politician actually patrols the streets and protects people…
January 23rd, 2009 at 4:20 pmLOL. Yeah, Rep. King, he’ll become a US citizen and impregnate Iowa white women to create an army of brown terraists! Good grief.
January 23rd, 2009 at 4:20 pm#4 Tallygirl:
I’m to the point where I think that if these Republicans are allowed to speak in public and sway the sheep in this country ….
They’re not “swaying” the sheep. ;-)
Cheers,
January 23rd, 2009 at 4:21 pmKhalid Sheik Mohammed on welfare. Wow. That’s a wingnut-rhetoric slam-dunk right there, is what that is. The only thing I could think of that would top that is if he was gonna marry YOUR DAUGHTER!!!
January 23rd, 2009 at 4:21 pmDo these guys make up this crap as time goes on? Are they ferverant 24 watchers or what? Jeez! Get a life! you would think with all the spying and wiretapping the Feds would find em!
January 23rd, 2009 at 4:22 pmSkeeter has progressive credentials?
Since when?
January 23rd, 2009 at 4:22 pmElBruce, I’m disappointed in you.
The REAL slam-dunk topper would be if he was gonna marry YOUR SON!
How did you miss that?
January 23rd, 2009 at 4:23 pmDamn. It shuold be a felony to be this stupid.
January 23rd, 2009 at 4:24 pmAh shucks, these Republicans have such a vivid imagination. May they become known as “fantasy Republicans”.
January 23rd, 2009 at 4:25 pmSo, it is safe for these guys to be imprisoned in Cuba, but not the US? Again, it makes no sense.
January 23rd, 2009 at 4:25 pmI wonder what King and the other light-minded ones would have thought or said if Bush had, as he said he’d like to do, closed Gitmo? Probably would have said it was an absolutely brilliant move.
January 23rd, 2009 at 4:27 pmAren’t we currently footing the bill for Khalid Sheikh Mohammed?
January 23rd, 2009 at 4:27 pmKing doesn’t have much faith in the American legal system, does he? If he had his way, we would just shoot everybody accused of a crime on the spot and forget that whole pesky business about due process. After all, we wouldn’t want to risk anybody getting off on a technicality, would we? Or maybe not everybody — just the scary brown ones.
And then there is his absurd hypothetical chain of events — Khalid Sheik Mohammed gets off on a technicality, is given asylum in the United States, is put on a path to citizenship, and then mooches off the welfare system. Why doesn’t King go all the way with this? Why not claim that Khalid Sheik Mohammed will then get a birth certificate forged and then run for POTUS? We certainly can’t have that happen, so let’s not risk getting that row of dominoes going by giving him a trial.
Steve King has already convinced me that he’s deranged. Apparently he feels it’s necessary to emphasize that point.
January 23rd, 2009 at 4:28 pmKing: Another possibility, let’s say that Khalid Sheikh Mohammed is walking the streets- free as a bird and joins a pick-up basketball game. There happens to be a college scout watching this pick-up game. And what if this terrorist is so good that he’s recruited by my beloved Hawkeyes, for example, and he leads them to a national championship and then in the final moments he throws the game… this could happen- it’s possible. Now a college basketball program has been destroyed and a national championship destroyed all because Obama closed Gitmo…
Gallagher: A chilling thought… would you like a turn with the Sledge-o-matic?
January 23rd, 2009 at 4:28 pmrealpatriot Says:
Sounds like this guy (along w/limbaugh, oreilly, hannity, miller, etc etc)
have decided that everyone at Gitmo is guilty, don’t need no stinking trials, just kill them all..that’ll fix it..
Glenn Beck showed his true Christianity when he said he wanted to shoot the terrorists in the head with a gun. Because Glenn oozes that tough guy machismo via Frank Burns and Dwight Schrute.
So yes, the prisoners are all “guilty” in the lunatic fringe’s eyes because they have to be guilty…because they’ve been labeled “terrorists” or “enemy combatants”. They want to “harm America”, according to the Alpha Retard, George W. Bush.
January 23rd, 2009 at 4:28 pmno, closing gitmo presents clear and present dangers to repukelicans who were complicit in torture when they get dragged in for war crime trials and are met face to face with the men they detrained giving evidence against their arses.
January 23rd, 2009 at 4:29 pm.
Is Rep. Steve King (R-IA) suggesting that Khalid Sheik Mohammed is seeking to become an American citizen?
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January 23rd, 2009 at 4:29 pmIt is also worth mentioning that we have had foreign convicted terrorists in American prisons on our soil for many years including some from 1993’s WTC attack. And we’ve somehow remained safe all this time, imagine!
January 23rd, 2009 at 4:29 pmThese far righties have such wild imaginations.
January 23rd, 2009 at 4:29 pmWow. Torture. Fearmongering. War. Racism. Hatred. Bigotry.
There is something *seriously* wrong with these people.
Seriously.
January 23rd, 2009 at 4:29 pmI can deal with terrorists getting asylum. This is a free country, and like Rep. King, believe that judges will do what they do. But the children of terrorists getting medical care? That is too horrible to contemplate.
Send the children the bill. Make them labor in the sweatshop until they cover their visit in installments. Then tell them they should know better than to have a dad who’s a terrorist!
January 23rd, 2009 at 4:30 pmCats r Flyfishn Says:
Aren’t we currently footing the bill for Khalid Sheikh Mohammed?
Yes and it’s a mega bill at that!
January 23rd, 2009 at 4:31 pmSomeone should point out to Rep. King that, given al Qeada’s deep-seated religious intolerance and desire for cultural purity and regressive morality, if a terrorist did become a citizen, he would more than likely join the Republican Party.
So that’s one more vote for his side. Rep. King should be excited.
January 23rd, 2009 at 4:33 pmSSSooooo, closing gitmo would give the mastermind of 9-11 a pathway to citizenship?
I didn’t know hoekstra captured bin-laden single handed and now he was being offerred citizenship? i am truly surprise dummya didn’t pardon his BFF bin laden befiore he left office
January 23rd, 2009 at 4:34 pmKing’s comments should be saved so that when he runs for re-election, his opponent can use them as a tool to discredit him.
January 23rd, 2009 at 4:35 pmWow. Stevie’s off his meds again.
Obviously Stevie doesn’t know that the people who set up the situation for 9/11 are already American citizens. We know that Bush ignored all the warnings leading up to 9/11 and Cheney had dealings with the Project for a New American Century. I believe that Cheney was one of the originals with PNAC.
They were both looking for a reason to create an empire. What other reasons could there be for allowing something like 9/11 to happen.
January 23rd, 2009 at 4:36 pmcoskibum Says:
Cats r Flyfishn Says:
Aren’t we currently footing the bill for Khalid Sheikh Mohammed?
Yes and it’s a mega bill at that!
Send the bill to Mr. King. I’m sure he’ll be pissing his pants less if he knows he’s safe from Saudi-Leftist-Non-White-Terroristic-Type-Boogey-men.
Iowans, you keep this excrement in office because?…
January 23rd, 2009 at 4:37 pmI’ve just got to ask the question: How many f**king complete idiots does the Republican Party have anyway? Is it just a haven for people with lobotomies? Can’t any of them have an original thought? Can none of them think for themselves?
January 23rd, 2009 at 4:39 pmTallygirl Says:
I’m to the point where I think that if these Republicans are allowed to speak in public and sway the sheep in this country with their fear mongering retoric, that they could invariably return to power and finish the job of destroying America that the Bush Administration started.
I’m not buying that at all Tallygirl. They’ve been crying wolf over and over and over and their lunacy gets exposed everytime they speak. Letting them prove themselves to be fools disarms them more than trying to deny them the right to express themselves. If that were to happen, they’d harp on the “victim” card even more than they are apt to do now.
January 23rd, 2009 at 4:39 pmMan, and I thought we had good herb out here in Kah-lee-for-nya. What are these guys smoking because they are seriously paranoid.
January 23rd, 2009 at 4:39 pmnormalasf Says:
Man, and I thought we had good herb out here in Kah-lee-for-nya. What are these guys smoking because they are seriously paranoid.
Ted Haggard likes his meth, ol Georgie prolly free-based(s)…I don’t see these guys into anything but the hard stuff.
January 23rd, 2009 at 4:41 pmIowa has King, OK has Inhofe, etc…Does anyone want to tell these republicans that there is a very good reason their children are the least educated in our country. There is a very good reason their drop out and teen pregnancy rates are the highest in the USA. There is a very good reason the domestic violence in their states are the highest in the land. There is a very good reason the largest number (per capita) of their consituants are at or below poverty level and/or are on government assistance.
Bottom line: Nobody should be listening to ANYTHING these boobs have to say.
January 23rd, 2009 at 4:42 pmDemented DeMint also chiming in on the fear angle, too
January 23rd, 2009 at 4:44 pm
i can’t stop laughing.
January 23rd, 2009 at 4:45 pmstop it, Stevie! you’re killing me!
Just went to King’s website and found out what caucuses he belongs to:
Caucuses and Other Memberships
* 4-H Caucus
* Air Force Caucus
* Anti-Value Added Tax Caucus
* China Caucus
* Congressional Biotechnology Caucus
* Congressional Coalition on Adoption
* Congressional Farmer Cooperative Caucus
* Congressional Immigration Reform Caucus
* Congressional Rural Caucus
* Congressional Sportsmen’s Caucus
* Conservative Opportunity Society
* Fair Tax Coalition
* House Agriculture Energy Users Caucus
* House Biofuels Caucus
* House Congressional Biotech Caucus
* House Rural Health Care Caucus
* Judicial Accountability Working Group
* Meth Caucus
* Pro-Life Caucus
* Pro-Life Working Group
* Republican Study Committee
* Values Action Team
* Voters Values Public Affairs Team
Enough said…
January 23rd, 2009 at 4:45 pmBy their own admission, the system that Bush set up imprisoned innocent people and sent dangerous people back into society to do harm.
Reviewing that process is not only not dangerous, it is necessary and the only sane thing to do.
January 23rd, 2009 at 4:46 pmI certainly hope Congressman King has adequate protection when he goes outside under the open sky. Word on the Repub street is that it will be falling any day now.
January 23rd, 2009 at 4:46 pmThe Meth Caucus? Well no wonder…
Have You Told a Republican He’s a Screw-Up Today?
January 23rd, 2009 at 4:49 pmhttp://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EIFIvFarghs
margerine Says:
Hopefully after that terrorist becomes a citizen he can go to barber college and fix this guy’s comb over.
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Oh yeah… teehee… that is a comb over… along w/ a BAD dye job.
January 23rd, 2009 at 4:49 pmHey, King do sleep well under your bed at night, Mr. Pissypants?
January 23rd, 2009 at 4:50 pmzuch (#18),
Hilarious post!
January 23rd, 2009 at 4:50 pmplease donate to the democratic party in King’s district. Plymouthcountydems.org
January 23rd, 2009 at 4:50 pmThat picture of King is so Silence of the Lambs. It’s really creeping me out.
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ralph the wonder llama Says:
The REAL slam-dunk topper would be if he was gonna marry YOUR SON!
How did you miss that?
I guess I wouldn’t make a very good wingnut. It’s a burden I’ll have to bear…
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WaltB Says:
I’ve just got to ask the question: How many f**king complete idiots does the Republican Party have anyway? Is it just a haven for people with lobotomies?
Yes. And last time we checked it was like 48% of the entire population or something. Pretty scary.
January 23rd, 2009 at 4:50 pm@Tweedster & coskibum: You’re right. I was being too generous with these brain-rotted fearbots. Meth makes much more sense.
January 23rd, 2009 at 4:51 pmIs it just me, or does Steve King (R-IA) look A LOT like Victor maitland, the drug-smuggling art dealer in Beverly Hills Cop?
Seriously. Look at that picture, and imagine him saying, Now listen my tough little friend, I don’t know from under what stone you crawled, or where you get these ideas about me, but it seems painfully obvious that you don’t have the slightest fu(king idea who you are dealing with.
January 23rd, 2009 at 4:58 pmThat’s it ralph!!!!
January 23rd, 2009 at 5:01 pmDamn, it was bugging me but I couldn’t place it. You are a wonder indeed.
the guy resembles a meerkat.
January 23rd, 2009 at 5:02 pm“terrorist alert! head for your burrows!”
I think what is really bothering him is if this terrorist type becomes a citizen and moves to Iowa ole Stevie might end up losing his seat to him.
Might beat him in an election too.
January 23rd, 2009 at 5:02 pmWhat the hell is wrong with these people?
January 23rd, 2009 at 5:08 pmNow, is this the REAL Hoodathunk? Or the name-jacker Hoodathunk?
January 23rd, 2009 at 5:10 pmI’m hoping the real one. That other one was scary.
January 23rd, 2009 at 5:12 pmRep. King is just too stupid.
January 23rd, 2009 at 5:14 pmAgreed, Hoodathunk. That one WAS scary.
Good to see you back.
January 23rd, 2009 at 5:15 pmWaltB Says:
I’ve just got to ask the question: How many f**king complete idiots does the Republican Party have anyway?
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Is this a trick question? Is the answer “All of them”???
On the other hand, if the kind of comments we’ve gotten just this week from the Right are any indication of what the next 4 years are going to be like, it’s going to be a Golden Age for political statirists.
Stewart and Colbert are prolly giving a huge sigh of relief.
You CAN’T make stuff this good up.
January 23rd, 2009 at 5:17 pmOh Christ here we go….
January 23rd, 2009 at 5:18 pmThere is only one logical response to Mr. King’s comments:
Haahaaahhaaahaahaaahhaaahaaahaaa (breathe)(repeat)
January 23rd, 2009 at 5:19 pmBat!
January 23rd, 2009 at 5:27 pmScat!!
Crazy!!!
Whaddaya mean IF a terrorist applies for asylum in the US? One terrorist already HAS applied for asylum.
The real kicker, of course, is that he hasn’t been deported because he could suffer torture in another country.
La-dees and Germs, I give you one Luis Posadas Carriles, currently walking free in the US after blowing up a passenger airplane in the 70’s, and performing several terrorist bombings in Cuba.
January 23rd, 2009 at 5:42 pmI’m waiting for the presser / presidential address where Mr. Obama points out that these Republicans are acting like spoiled children (or perhaps delusional psychotics).
January 23rd, 2009 at 5:50 pmRep. King and other Republicans would like to just kidnapping people and torturing them. We’re had the CIA names 15 names as that being the 20th highjacker. Now yes the CIA picked up Fawaz Al Nashimi who freely confused to being the 20th person. At the time the CIA didn’t believe his story so they let him go. Later they found at he gave the exact facts but they couldn’t fine him again. Now men are tortured and we’re told each is either a mastermind or the 20th highjacker. We tortured kids too. Republicans like Rep. King see no problem but when this policy is done to Americans well let’s see. Maybe Rep. King can testify at the Bush Administration trial on War Crimes by the United Nations. Israel picked up the policy as PM Olmert said he cried when seeing the Palestine children being killed and burned to death. That must make the parents of the children feel good to know Olmert cried while ordering more killing.
January 23rd, 2009 at 5:51 pmAny one remember Timothy McVey? He was a clear and present danger to civilian Americans.
January 23rd, 2009 at 5:52 pm76 – Luis, no no no, you silly! Mr. Carriles couldn’t possibly be a terrorist.
He’s not a Muslim, you see.
Duh.
January 23rd, 2009 at 5:52 pmand we know what some of those judges do, and on a technicality, such as, let’s just say he wasn’t read his Miranda rights. …
He was tortured – and evidence gained through torture cannot be admitted as evidence. It appears there cannot be a trial of KSM so he will have to be released at some point.
January 23rd, 2009 at 6:01 pmBut lets just say that Superman framed Mighty Mouse for the 9/11 attacks. Wouldn’t that put Mighty Mouse on the path to citizenship ?
Hey, It could happen.
January 23rd, 2009 at 6:05 pmWonder if Iowa has recovered from all that flooding. Wonder how many of his constituents are terrified of losing their jobs, their houses, their health care…
January 23rd, 2009 at 6:06 pmheard a caller, to either ed or randi, remarking on the NIMBY fear mongers (paraphrasing):
January 23rd, 2009 at 6:11 pm“what?! they’ve never watched those prison shows on cabel tv? we’ve already got terrorists in our prisons!”
mk3872 is so right, there already are quite a few terrorists
in US prisons, where they’ve been for quite a while. And while most of them actually probably bad guys, as opposed to someone who was turned in for a bounty or in the
wrong place at the wrong time, I haven’t noticed any problems so far.
Of course, I’d imagine that we’ve rather efficiently turned those of them who might be innocent into terrorists with torture and unlimited detention.
January 23rd, 2009 at 6:12 pmbelac Says:
King: Another possibility, let’s say that Khalid Sheikh Mohammed is walking the streets- free as a bird and joins a pick-up basketball game. There happens to be a college scout watching this pick-up game. And what if this terrorist is so good that he’s recruited by my beloved Hawkeyes, for example, and he leads them to a national championship and then in the final moments he throws the game… this could happen- it’s possible. Now a college basketball program has been destroyed and a national championship destroyed all because Obama closed Gitmo…
January 23rd, 2009 at 4:28 pm
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A chilling scenario indeed. However, I think you overlooked one very important detail.
Khalid Sheikh Mohammed is a proud graduate of the North Carolina Agricultural and Technical State University (GO BULLDOGS!) and would never stoop to playing for the University of Iowa.
January 23rd, 2009 at 6:16 pmralph the wonder llama Says:
Now, is this the REAL Hoodathunk? Or the name-jacker Hoodathunk?
#66 has the clue:
Far too clever yuks to be the fake.
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republicans hate facts Says:
Luis M, didn’t you know, Republicans LOVE TERRORISTS as long as they’re killing people THEY HATE – just like how they LOVED Al Qaeda when they were fighting RUSKIES!
That’s because Republicans don’t have moral standards. Standards are things that don’t change depending on the situation. For example, you’ll never hear a Republican politician speak in favor of “human lives,” only “American lives.”
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wiley Says:
Wonder if Iowa has recovered from all that flooding. Wonder how many of his constituents are terrified of losing their jobs, their houses, their health care…
He doesn’t. He doesn’t particularly care.
January 23rd, 2009 at 6:16 pmhussein toasterhead Says:
Khalid Sheikh Mohammed is a proud graduate of the North Carolina Agricultural and Technical State University
As if we needed another reason to fear him! Shudder…
January 23rd, 2009 at 6:34 pmI think he looks like Putin’s less fortunate brother.
January 23rd, 2009 at 6:45 pmI live in Iowa, and I’ll give anyone, who drops a house on embarassing man, a shiney new nickel.
January 23rd, 2009 at 6:49 pmDon’t they understand yet that we are sick of dishonest, hysterical fear-mongering? This is why you lost, you incompetents!
January 23rd, 2009 at 6:51 pmTY, El. Subtle is as subtle does.
January 23rd, 2009 at 6:54 pmThese Republicans are utterly insane. Fortunately, for the past 4 years, a progressively more educated population rejects them. But NONE of us can sit home and not vote in future elections. We must get rid of the GOP once and for all.
January 23rd, 2009 at 7:08 pmbelac Says:
As if we needed another reason to fear him! Shudder…
Hey, it’s not like he’s from TAMU. Them folks can get skeeery.
January 23rd, 2009 at 7:12 pmLuis M Says:
That is just one there is also Emmanuel Constant of Haiti a mass murderer who we have granted asylum despite many requests by Haiti for extradition
January 23rd, 2009 at 7:39 pmI think that what is left of the republican caucus are representative of a faction I would call neoJohnBircherCons. I don’t think that they are being slyly manipulative and knowingly using fear and paranoid as a conscious strategy. I think that neoJohnBircherCons are mightily honestly afraid and paranoid themselves. And are actually expressing their irrationally held beliefs as if they were the truth.I don’t think they are using tactics of fear but are honestly expressing their own fear and paranoia. Think Black Helicopters or the woman at the McCain rally who was honestly afraid of Barack Obama because he was a muslim terrorist as examples. Its difficult for some of us to believe that being poorly educated and and easily duped are the characteristics of a lot of americans. Whether they have been elected to congress or are living in trailer parks.
mickster
January 23rd, 2009 at 7:41 pmI am more concerned that some terrorist sperm once in America would infest the nation and gain citizenship . . .
Maybe their is some basis for the Repigs fear . . . even Ted Bundy and Charlie get/got love letters and proposals . . . and 22% STILL support BUSH . . . go figger.
January 23rd, 2009 at 8:08 pmKING: …we’ve got a couple of 150 folks there and the potential’s there for every single on of them to be brought to the United States and find a path through our laws, that they could actually live in the United States legally, and maybe, and after Nancy Pelosi gets done with SCHIP, they can tap into welfare while they’re at it.
Then Gallagher smashed a watermelon with a sledgehammer. Too bad it was radio, nobody got to see that part.
January 23rd, 2009 at 9:13 pmBelieve Mayor Daley’s cuckoo comment about Blago could well apply to this guy King. It’s hard to believe people in any one congressional district would elect something like this to represent them.
January 23rd, 2009 at 9:23 pmmisshusseinmolly wrote: “King doesn’t have much faith in the American legal system, does he?”
I have said it many times and will continue to remind: These are Republicans. One of their stated tenets has always been that they yearn to abolish the government. They mean by that of course, that they don’t want to pay tax that someone might benefit from besides them individually. It is no accident that they are the party of the rich, privileged and calloused. The only hope they had of survival as a party was to convince the soft-headed that they had their interests at heart succeeding in enticing working people to vote against themselves. The CEOs and other representatives of the wealthy were delighted with this success of propaganda. Results over time of course proved to the majority of these dupes they had been mistaken. That is why we see the deeply flawed Republican philosophy sounding so much more implausible now. They had their off-an-on majority for 15 years now and almost managed to finish off what was left of the Republic after their previous onslaughts going back to just after the Civil War.
They are the source of our permanent “war footing” which has not managed to protect anyone apart from the “defense industry” and the “banks” (which is synonymous with the government itself). This is the reason we are so hated around the world; the “defense industry” actually makes us unsafe. All this “defense”, it turns out, was just cover for imperial expansion. This imperialism (since we are a nominally democratic nation which puts on elections occasionally to keep people from complaining) would demand the need for a continuous and imminent threat such as Communism, Socialism, Union Organizing, “Elitism”, “Community Organizers”, “Terrorists” and whatever else they can stir up. The name of the nebulous threat is ever-changing but always out there. How else can you keep the domestic peace while spending the vast sums on the pet projects of bankers, speculators and imperialists at the people’s expense? There is no money for healthcare, infrastructure, education…plenty for blowing up shit 10,000 miles away.
You can bet these Republicans, Neocon/Imperialists and Religionist/Racists will become more and more shrill and desperate as they see their coup revealed and made to fail. This Republican of Iowa is just doing his ideological part to promote the party’s ideas and preserve the fear/threat knowing the military industrialists will be grateful. He will also claim it has something to do with “protecting” citizens which is not just silly sounding, it is a bold-faced lie.
January 23rd, 2009 at 11:13 pmYeah, I guess they lost their faith in the American legal system when they started seeing their friends being sent to prison.
January 23rd, 2009 at 11:55 pmNow I understand why the long-haul truckers say that I-O-W-A stands for Idiots Out Wandering Around. This whack job is the lead idiot of his state. I’m sure that Sac City or some other little Iowa village has reported him missing.
January 24th, 2009 at 12:55 amThe only reasonable decision the republicans can come up w/ is to lock them up somewhere in hell forever cause Lord knows if these guys weren’t terrorists before, they certainly are now thanks to Dumbya’s torture tactics.
January 24th, 2009 at 1:33 amthis guy is an utter embarrassment – to the state of iowa and to the human race in general…how he continues to hold office is a mystery. how anyone in his district or the press can take anything he says seriously, a greater mystery still. he is unbalanced and dangerous.
January 24th, 2009 at 10:09 amThe exchange between Gallagher and King is a good example case of paranoia at its best.
January 24th, 2009 at 12:01 pmIs it just me, or does that guy bear a striking resemblence to “Freakshow” from the Harold and Kumar movie?
http://www.thejay.com/wp-content/freakshow.jpg
January 24th, 2009 at 5:49 pmto tally girl
sheep… you liberal leftists are the true sheep.
wishing to be herding and cared for by your shephard, your government. by the way…is funded by my hard earned paycheck.
it is really sad that you all miss the true message.
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