Comments Rebutted! WEEE

So, every Saturday we will respond to comments left on our posts. This way, you don't have to go searching through every post to find a response to what you had to say!

I'll start with responding to my first post: It is not "lala I'm not listening" to say that people have no idea what the job of president consists of and they have no right calling someone incompetent. Just because someone did things that you do not agree with, but they believed in and stuck with does not mean they are incompetent.

It was President Clinton who passed the buck on al Queda big time. He had fighter jets ready to blow up bin Laden, and he told them to stand down. He had multiple chances to get bin Laden from the Saudis and refused. Bush had been in office 8 months before 9-11 and I'm sure they had not yet sorted through all the blunders of the previous administration to find out where al Queda was then. Yes, we did have a Pear Harbor scenario where there was important intelligence that was passed over, misplaced, misinterpreted, and ignored, but I do not blame the president.

Having been in airports since 9-11 and before, I can say that security is much different now. Port security has been significantly increased as well. Yes, our nuclear facilities are not nearly secure enough for me, but it's a little better. And border security will never improve to anyone's liking until immigration reform is passed. Many people are unaware that the largest unprotected border into the US is actually between the US and Canada. Having gone to Canada, I can tell you that it is a big ordeal to get in, but you are not stopped at all on the way out.

And you know what, I am perfectly okay with capturing people who are suspicious, putting people into prisons indefinitely and yes, torturing them if it gains intelligence and saves American lives. Apparently, Noah, you haven't watched the news since 9-11, but I can remember at least three serious terror plots that were foiled by the Bush administration from intelligence gathered from many means, including the possible torture of those in Gitmo, and I am okay with that.

And up until his election, Obama gave the impression that change would be. When he said otherwise in his victory speech, the faces of the crowd turned to confusion.

On Gitmo: I do not believe that closing the facility is a good idea at all. However, if it is to be closed, it should be decided AFTER a plan has been devised as to what to do with those kept there. So far I have heard no detailed plan from the Obama administration on this matter. It has come out this week that three former prisoners of Gitmo that were captured on the field of battle have been seen back on the field and in al Queda videos. When I said in my post that they were found back on the field, I did not mean that random people we found had decided to hate the US and then join al Queda. I meant that people we captured on the field of battle returned there. If Obama plans to send these people back to their countries (assuming the countries will take them) then they will end up right where we found them.

Here's to the end of our first week of blogging! Thank's for commenting, and keep them coming! See you tomorrow!