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It’s almost like President Obama doesn’t want to keep America safe or something.

We are at the war with al Qaeda, the Taliban, and other assorted folks who want to kill us. Obama made a campaign promise to close the Guantanamo camp in Cuba and signed an Executive Order to close the camp. Sadly, no one wants to take the prisoners back and Obama’s trial balloons to incarcerate them in the United States has met with Not In My Back Yard resistance.

We are still at war with our enemies, even though Obama doesn’t like to call it a war or call the vile little pigs terrorists. What’s more, international law says that enemy combatants can be held until the war is over.

The human-caused disasters, or whatever feel-good name Obama is calling them these days, do not have the right to be released.

According to a Rasmussen poll released today, 75% of Americans worry that closing Gitmo will set terrorists free.

Seventy-five percent (75%) of U.S. voters are at least somewhat concerned that dangerous terrorists will be set free if the Guantanamo prison camp is closed and some prisoners are transferred to other countries. Fifty-six percent (56%) are very concerned.

A new Rasmussen Reports national telephone survey shows that just 24% are not concerned about the potential danger.

Support for the president’s plan to close the prison camp for suspected terrorists at the Guantanamo Naval Base in Cuba continues to erode. It’s been steadily dropping since Obama announced the camp closure just after taking office in January. Only 32% of voters now favor closing the prison camp, down six points from May and down 12 points since the President announced his decision in January.

This is dandy news to wake up to. Remember how the Democrats and the media were all yukking it up when Bush included North Korea in his “Axis of Evil” List?

In other news, Obama is “deeply concerned.”

From YONHAP NEWS:

SEOUL, July 1 (Yonhap) — The long-range rocket North Korea launched in April could be converted into a ballistic missile capable of striking half of the continental U.S., two American physicists have concluded in a joint study.

North Korea launched on April 5 what it claims was a rocket designed to carry a satellite into orbit. The U.S. and its allies say nothing entered orbit, calling the “Unha-2” rocket a disguised ballistic missile capable of flying over 6,700km.

South Korean and U.S. officials have refrained from elaborating on the capabilities of the rocket, while media reports said the rocket flew at least 3,000km before falling into the Pacific Ocean.

MIT professor Theodore Postol and David Wright, a physicist at the Union of Concerned Scientists (UCS), said the rocket could fly even farther — over 10,000km — if converted into a missile.

“The Unha launcher represents a significant advance over North Korea’s previous launchers and would have the capability to reach the continental United States with a payload of one ton or more if North Korea modified it for use as a ballistic missile,” they said.

“It could have a range of 10,000-10,500km, allowing it to reach Alaska, Hawaii, and roughly half of the lower 48 states,” they said in an article posted this week on the Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists.