Cleaning Up The Garbage Dump


(Clay Bennett / Chattanooga Times Free Press)


(Matt Davies / The Journal News)


(Mike Keefe / Denver Post)

CHAPEL HILL, N.C. – In political debate, the side that keeps its arguments simple and repeats them again and again is likely to gain the advantage. It is an easier sale, especially when the topic is as scary as terrorism.

That's because "simple" and "repetition" are much easier for stupid people to attain.

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"In dealing with this situation [Guantánamo], we do not have the luxury of starting from scratch. We are cleaning up something that is -- quite simply -- a mess; a misguided experiment that has left in its wake a flood of legal challenges that my administration is forced to deal with on a constant basis, and that consumes the time of government officials whose time should be spent on better protecting our country."
- President Barack Obama, address at the National Archives, 5/21/2009

Two Bush-era officials reject Cheney's security stance

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