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To: LindyBill who wrote (309308)	6/10/2009 10:04:01 AM
From: gamesmistress	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 793955

I'd like to play poker with whoever "negotiated" that deal. Palau takes the Uighurs and the cash posted at 8:47 am on June 10, 2009 by Ed Morrissey Palau has accepted the Obama administration’s offer of $200 million to bring 17 trained al-Qaeda terrorists to their island nation. The government in Palau announced this morning that they would agree to it as a gesture of friendship to the US for all of our assistance to them. They also don’t mind doubling their GDP this year: Rest at hotair.com

To: LindyBill who wrote (309308)	6/26/2009 3:54:51 PM
From: goldworldnet	3 Recommendations Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 793955

Councilman appeals to Obama to bring detainees to Big Island Greenwell: Give us the Gitmo guys by Erin Miller - West Hawaii Today Thursday, June 25, 2009 8:51 AM HST westhawaiitoday.com Kamaaina and malihini have long described Hawaii in the most glowing of terms: a cultural melting pot, a paradise resplendent with diversity or a land of aloha. North Kona Councilman Kelly Greenwell wants to take that image, embrace it and enhance it. Greenwell recently sent a letter to President Barack Obama, asking the Hawaii-born commander-in-chief to consider sending prisoners to be released from the prison at the naval base in Guantanamo Bay to the Big Island. The idea isn't to incarcerate the prisoners here, the councilman said, but to release them and begin a process of healing and forgiveness. "We have forgiven the people who bombed Pearl Harbor," Greenwell said, adding that Americans also forgave Germans after World War II. "I think if we want to be known as a place of love and aloha, this is a place to express it." In a letter to Mayor Billy Kenoi, explaining his proposal, Greenwell admits that the idea "may sound insane." But, the councilman continued, collaboration with the president could reap the mayor big benefits. "It places you in the position of helping our president out of a critical predicament, and it wouldn't hurt if you were his best friend," Greenwell wrote. The councilman described the result as "a new stew," a place where various cultures can meet and learn to get along. Further, Greenwell said, the detainees at Guantanamo are "no more than suspects." He acknowledged that some Americans might be unhappy with his offer to accept the detainees, but said that he anticipated negative reactions to be only about 10 percent of the total responses. "We can't continue to live in a culture of fear that has been perpetuated because of political reasons," he said. * * *