'MargaUighurville' Rhetoric Furthers Obstructionist Agenda
Posted by The Editors
From NSN intern William Benet:
Rep. Steve King (R-IA) uttered these words yesterday regarding the Obama administration’s decision to relocate innocent Uighur detainees from Guantanamo Bay to Bermuda:
We could avoid this criticism and shut down an operation that has actually been built up to accommodate the people that are there now, including the Uighurs, who are now wasting away in MargaUighurville from what I understand. I can’t even say it because I get Jimmy Buffett and Warren Buffett mixed up, I think.
Umm… what? Where, then, would you like these innocent Chinese Muslims to go? Not the US, not Bermuda, not anywhere? Offering no solutions of their own – aside from prolonging the unlawful detainment of civilians whose release was ordered by a federal court in 2008 – conservatives have relentlessly fought efforts by the Obama administration to potentially relocate these detainees within the US. Even after the White House has found a place outside of the US willing to take them, however, conservatives like King continue to belittle their situation. This language only serves to further the conservatives’ obstructionist strategy, and offers no constructive alternative.
On another note, a United States congressman who gets Jimmy Buffett and Warren Buffet mixed up… what?
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