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A February 5 Politico article about Democratic reaction to former Vice President Dick Cheney's recent comments concerning President Obama's executive order closing the Guantánamo Bay prison within a year falsely reported: "The Pentagon said earlier this month that 61 former Guantanamo inmates, out of the more than 700 who had been held at the facility, have been found to have returned to terrorism, up from 37 in March." In fact, the Pentagon has acknowledged that its figure of 61 detainees includes 43 former prisoners who are only suspected of, but have not been confirmed as having "returned to terrorism." As Media Matters for America noted, during a January 13 press conference, Pentagon spokesman Geoff Morrell stated: "The new numbers are, we believe, 18 confirmed and 43 suspected of returning to the fight. So 61 in all former Guantanamo detainees are confirmed or suspected of returning to the fight."

Moreover, even the Pentagon's claim that it has confirmed that 18 former Guantánamo detainees have "return[ed] to the fight" has been questioned by experts. CNN national security analyst Peter Bergen stated on the January 23 edition of CNN's Anderson Cooper 360 that "returning to the fight, in Pentagon terms, could be engaging in anti-American propaganda, something that's not entirely surprising if you have been locked up in a prison camp for several years without charge."

lovin, why in the world would you be reading media matters?
you are my hero

Two Republicans join the Democrats on the Economic Rescue Plan, and there may be a possible third.
So far the two Republicans are: Arlen Specter from Pennsylvania and Susan Collins from Maine.

Too freaking funny that the Republicans are working so damn hard to find something to critisize Obama for that they have started on the way he dresses. Give me a freaking break you nuts. President Obama's fashion style is now coming under attack. Former George W. Bush Chief of Staff Andrew Card says the Obama dress code is way too laid back and a disgrace to the office of President and the Oval office. Too bad the dumbarse didn't do some homework or he would have seen the photos of Gerald Ford, Jimmy Carter, Bush Sr and even Bush "W" as well as many more have ALL not worn jackets to work in the oval office. In fact Bush "W" was photographed "2" days after his last inaugeration at his desk in only his shirt just as Obama was. Andrew Card!!! Get you a effing life or do a little research on your subjuct BEFORE you run your mouth!!! This is hillarious. Sore losers crack me up.

that was funny wanna, i have a question, since the republicians hate the stimulus pkg obama has proposed , what exactly are their suggestions? i do know one is tax breaks for big corporations, and i don't understand how that will help the middle class

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In a February 9 article, The Washington Post uncritically reported Republican National Committee chairman Michael Steele's statement that "in the history of mankind and womankind, government -- federal, state or local -- has never created one job. It's destroyed a lot of them." In fact, as Newsweek senior editor Dan Gross noted when Steele previously made a similar claim, about 15 percent of the labor force is employed by federal, state, or local government. Indeed, the Bureau of Labor Statistics' preliminary data for January 2009 shows that out of the approximately 153.7 million people in the civilian labor force, about 22.5 million people had government jobs in January 2009.

Moreover, the Post did not mention that Steele acknowledged, on the February 8 edition of ABC's This Week, that funds included in the recovery bill for school construction will create jobs "[f]or a short term, yes. It's a construction job." He did so after host and ABC News chief Washington correspondent George Stephanopoulos confronted Steele on his claim that a government job is "not a job. A job is something that a business owner creates. It's going to be long term."

Senate advances Economic Stimulus Bill 61-36.
Final vote expected tomorrow.

Calvin Woodward from AP keeps getting his facts wrong!
Here are some interesting articles about Calvin Woodward, where he disguises his editorials as journalism, and gets the facts all wrong. Is this guy another Republican plant like that guy who did internet porn, but wrote phoney articles to make Bush look good so the Bush Admin. let him into the White House Press Corp?

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