That's What They Can Prove Anyway
The Secretary of Defense, Robert Gates told Pentagon reporters today that between 5 and 10 percent of those released from Guantanamo return to the fight.
"I was told today that the recidivism rate ... those who
return to the battlefield, is probably somewhere between 5 and
10 percent -- maybe 6, 7 percent, something like that," Gates
said.
"We don't have a lot of specific cases. We're talking about
one, two, three dozen that we have data on," he told reporters
at the Pentagon.
"We do as careful a vetting job as we possibly can before
releasing these people," he said.
I think the numbers are much higher if you count planning and facilitating. These numbers only include those who have been captured, killed, or announced themselves in the media (yeah, it's happened). more...
This last one the blew himself up isn't the first one they've tried to claim that. There are at least a couple more "peaceful sheepherders" who turned to jihad because of their "torture".
Load of crap. (and dpud, I don't think that handle is going to raise my curse-o-meter rating up from zero. Just sayin'
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Posted by: Stashiu3 at 08 May 2008@19:49:02 (Q5ggV)
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Well, if you want help with that too, I'd be happy to oblige...
Posted by: doubleplusundead at 08 May 2008@23:38:30 (ZuzXA)
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I try not to curse very often (shhhh... it's a secret shame) but dpud knows it doesn't bother me when others do it. I don't have a problem telling someone to go "self-sooth" when it's called for, but it has more impact when it's something unusual.
You'll see it now and again here, from me and others, but probably not very often. I didn't even curse over at The Hostages... and they still treated me well.
Posted by: Stashiu3 at 09 May 2008@09:39:11 (Q5ggV)
Welcome Conservative Grapevine Readers!
How the hell did that happen? Welcome... take a look around, feel free to drop a comment or two, check the links... whatever, it's pretty relaxed here. (yeah, right... until a rant or meltdown occurs).
I've never been an "Of The Day" anything before... tastes like chicken. Just sayin'
I've been wondering lately if there is any event that the moronosphere has where everyone gets together in a real sense and do something, preferrably drinking and chasing women.
Has anything like that been thrown together before?
Posted by: Old Iron at 10 May 2008@08:02:50 (tD0Cq)
Posted by: Stashiu3 at 10 May 2008@12:17:30 (Q5ggV)
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There are a few meetings of the Morons over the course of the year, Ace usually holds the yearly Ace-a-palooza in NY in late summer or early fall, and sometimes meets up with morons at things he gets invited to like CPAC. IB had a pretty good get together last year, a few of the Hostages went too.
Rule Of Law
There are just too many unscrupulous people who use the Rule of Law as cover for their own greed, prejudice, or stupidity. Vicki No-Veil atThe Jawa Report notes the irony of Somalia complaining that France had no right to go after those Somali pirates last month.
"France and Somalia do not have an extradition treaty and French
laws are not applicable to crimes committed outside France," said
Hussein Mohamed Aidid, chairman of the Eritrea-based Alliance for the
Reliberation of Somalia (ARS).
"If the pirates were extradited illegally, like it happened in this
case, then they were kidnapped by the French special forces. If the
pirates acted against the law, the French should not have done the same.
Links Around The Moronosphere
Be sure to check out dpud and his daily collection of links. (not responsible for eye- or brain-damage caused by clicking eddiebear's link, or any other).
Thank You Ace
Welcome AceofSpadesHQ readers and thank you Ace for everything. Ace and Patterico are the two biggest reasons I started blogging. This has been a long, frustrating process and I was starting to get burned out. When doubleplusundead and others emailed and suggested asking for help, it was very difficult to do. The prayers, advice, and donations have all been overwhelming (in a good way).
We still have several months worth of paperwork to get processed and the attorneys we have now are (mostly) very good. Pursuing any redress from the original attorney is going to wait until DHS and ICE are happy. So far, they have been very understanding with extensions to our daughter's visas, but if that were to change our daughters might end up deported. Doing anything right now to complicate their applications would be unwise.
For those who are interested, the adoption is complete and has been for a long time. We have an adoption decree by the court. What we didn't know was that the first attorney had arranged for the girls to come here on a student visa and never prepared anything to get that status changed. This eventually caught the attention of the IRS because the girls were unable to get Social Security Numbers and we couldn't understand why. Trying to get all this sorted out since then has been nerve-wracking at times and we needed to go much farther into our financial reserves than we ever expected would happen.
Thank you all for taking the time to listen... your kind words and any donations will be passed forward when our own situation is stable again. I promise you that.
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Hang in there. It sounds like you are handling everything the best way possible.
Posted by: DRJ at 07 May 2008@20:44:29 (wE7Og)
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jb, The attorneys we have now are immigration lawyers and they're doing ok... better now that I shared my concerns with them about losing the birth certificate. We will probably look into getting another attorney after everything is complete to try and make sure that this doesn't happen to someone else.
DRJ, thanks as always. Your advice was particularly helpful (and timely).
Posted by: Stashiu3 at 07 May 2008@21:16:43 (Q5ggV)
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Well, I'm just as slow as molasses! I juuuuuust read about this at Ace's place, hope the bit Fatwa and I can do will be of some assistance.
Normally, I elect to donate as an anony-mouse, but I wanted for you to know your friends are solidly behind you.
Posted by: BrendaK at 08 May 2008@10:46:42 (vmv+h)
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Thanks BK! You and Fatwa are good gerbils and I'm very happy you like your new job so much. When's that Yankee sunovagun gonna make his move? (Location of course, he apparently has little problem with the other kind towards his BrendalambiepieK.)
Posted by: Stashiu3 at 08 May 2008@16:40:03 (Q5ggV)
Well-Prepared Clerk
If I ever started working in a convenience store I would make sure that I could protect myself. This is my kind of guy.
A man’s attempted armed robbery of a central Mesa store was foiled
Sunday when the clerk fought back with a Taser, his fists and a
handgun, police said.
That is friggin AWESOME. I was waiting for the part when the guy was supposed to say "I would have used the RPG but due to the enclosed space I was operating in as well as the fact that the guy was pretty much a puddle from the previous weaponry I felt that it would have been a bit of overkill."
Posted by: Old Iron at 06 May 2008@11:32:09 (tD0Cq)
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It sounds like he was a bit rushed... no mention of nunchucks, edged weapons, or pepper-spray. I would never use an RPG in a convenience store. If I worked in a gas station though....
Posted by: Stashiu3 at 06 May 2008@14:33:53 (Q5ggV)
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It's not overkill already? Was the robber Batman?
Posted by: Gabriel Malor at 08 May 2008@01:36:45 (1Ug6U)
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It caught my eye because the guy had a Taser. I've never heard of that being used to thwart a convenience store robbery. Besides, everybody knows Batman doesn't rob stores... sheesh!
Good to see you Gabriel.
Posted by: Stashiu3 at 08 May 2008@01:51:21 (Q5ggV)
Check Out The Talent!!
I've long said that I would need six months of intensive art lessons to draw stick-people, so S.Weasel's talent leaves me in jealous awe, especially with the graphic to today's post. *Sigh* Go check out S.Weasel... she lets you "steal" her original graphics (like this!)
This isn't the graphic for today's post... get on over there to see it. It's worth it. And steal what you like, but it would be nice to say where you got it from. Go on, get going.
Can Either Clinton Think More Of Themselves?
Both of these came up at Drudge at the same time. First, Hillary.
Stephanopoulos pointed out that radio talk show host Rush Limbaugh has
encouraged Republicans to vote for Clinton to divide the Democratic
Party, prompting one of the lighter moments of the show.
“He’s always had a crush on me,†Clinton said, as the room of about 200 people erupted into laughter.
After one person fell during an event in
Lenoir, Clinton joked: "Somebody faints at nearly every one of these
things now. At my age, I didn't think I could make anybody faint
anymore."
Ok, those are both pretty funny actually. Is it just me, or do they seem much more relaxed now (link via Insty) that Obama is under fire from so many / other / directions? (nice series from DRJ, that's 3 different links btw... I changed the formatting a bit to make it clearer)
You're Bugging Me
Battlefield Intelligence may get an small assist soon... and I do mean small. The idea is to send in these guys first. Developed for British troops, a trial run with prototypes is hoped for before the year is out. I'm not sure how practical it is, but it's pretty darn cool. How soon before the nutroots complain that our government will want them for domestic use?
Posted by: Veeshir at 07 May 2008@12:54:01 (zXUuJ)
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Yep, some serious crazy there. If we could power cars using just leftist paranoia, San Francisco would become the New Motown while most of the Middle East would turn back into desert.
Posted by: Stashiu3 at 07 May 2008@14:56:28 (Q5ggV)
Dr. Sanity Has "Carnival Of The Insanities" Every Sunday
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