What this all means…

Does it mean the “war on terror” is over?
Of course not. Far from it.

As the pundits are discussing, Al-Qaeda will likely step up it’s game to prove that it’s still relevant.
Alert levels will skyrocket.

What is so monumental about this event, is that Barack Obama accomplished what Bush could not.
During the Democratic primaries, (in fact, prior to that), Obama spoke out against the illegitimacy of the Iraq war.

George W. Bush walked away from an opportunity to capture Bin Laden at Tora Bora, in favor of using faulty and/or fake intelligence to illegally invade and occupy the country of Iraq (which had nothing to do with 9/11).

Obama made a commitment during his Presidential campaign to end the horrible war in Iraq and shift the focus to Afghanistan to make Bin Laden’s death or capture the priority it should have been all along.

And tonight, the REAL mission has been accomplished.

Good job Mr. President.

"Obama: The Last Airbender" & other silly ideas...

Obama to close Guantanamo...

Matt Apuzzo and Lara Jakes Jordan write for HuffPo:

President-elect Obama's advisers are quietly crafting a proposal to ship dozens, if not hundreds, of imprisoned terrorism suspects to the United States to face criminal trials, a plan that would make good on his promise to close the Guantanamo Bay prison but could require creation of a controversial new system of justice.

During his campaign, Obama described Guantanamo as a "sad chapter in American history" and has said generally that the U.S. legal system is equipped to handle the detainees. But he has offered few details on what he planned to do once the facility is closed.

Under plans being put together in Obama's camp, some detainees would be released and many others would be prosecuted in U.S. criminal courts.

A third group of detainees _ the ones whose cases are most entangled in highly classified information _ might have to go before a new court designed especially to handle sensitive national security cases, according to advisers and Democrats involved in the talks. Advisers participating directly in the planning spoke on condition of anonymity because the plans aren't final.

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