Ted Rall for February 21, 2009
February 19, 2009
February 23, 2009
Transcript:
You marched in '03. You thought about startign a liberal blog in '06. Now your activism has paid off: Barack Obama is president! Time to chill out. It's time to kick back, enjoy a well-deserved rest, stretch out, relax and take a vacation from outrage. Recycle your old Bush-bashing placards and bask in the glow of uneritical apathy! Our 1400 day/1399 night Dem-cation packages start at just $ [your share of the national debt]! Travel abroad without fear of anti-American ribbing! (Man: No stress. No news. No politics!) (Woman: All tanks to Democratic victory!) (Man: Torture, war, and economic collapse don't matter. First black prez. our work is done!) (Woman: Don't get even- get even-tempered!)
littlehorn: I stand corrected: Some countries will take back their own: but this is correct: Since 2001, the US has held at least 22 Uighur detainees at Guantanamo Bay. China, their country of origin does not want them back, because they were present in Iraq and accused of terrorism activities. If we return these people to the general population of their country, what assurances do we have that we won’t have to hunt them down again? I say “we” loosely, I do understand that it will be my two sons and their fellow soldiers in the military hunting them, and not me and you.