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Gitmo raises only two questions, IMO:
1. Since obama is so enamored of Executive Orders, why doesn't he fulfill his promise to CLOSE the facility by using an Executive Order to transfer the occupants to any Federal Prison in the Southeast, transfer the guards to a post where they can do some good, and tear the place down!
Because Obama signed the 2012 NDAA bill, thus ensuring the facility remains open indefnitely.
I think that if they let those guys go, they may tell about what they endured and what a hellhole that place is - that's the problem. Plus, they can't go to trial with them, because they don't have the evidence. The majority of those men are innocent, wrong place/wrong time.
Since this is a politics forum and not about reality trash tv , I though Id take a poll.
Does anyone here have an opinion on what's going on in Guantanamo? . Have you seen accurate information on the news?.
Khalid Sheik Muhammed, the 'mastermind' of 911 is still being held there, but US Intelligence as determined that our Justice Dept cannot be trusted to prosecute him, and our penal system in US is too weak to hold him.
No trial. No answers. Is this acceptable?. Now they are supposedly giving feeding tubes to those at Guantanamo on hunger strike, as of yesterday.
Just wondering if anyone in US wants an intelligent debate on this, and why US citizens are getting NO answers. justice and answers about 911 are due to Americans, imo.
It's called congressional republicans...they love to **** things up.
i think it is a good idea. it appears that the president does too as its going on 8 years that he has kept it.
here is why i agree.
if turned over to our disfunctional civilian judicial system--- you could blow up NYC and boston and walk away a free man. i am not making a joke i am telling why obama had bin laden shot. why he had the pirates shot. why he uses drones and special ops (to date 50,000 strong) to kill our enemies. our court system is broke. if you are going to jail them instead of kill them, u better use a military facility under military control.
we need guantanamo.
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Gitmo raises only two questions, IMO:
1. Since obama is so enamored of Executive Orders, why doesn't he fulfill his promise to CLOSE the facility by using an Executive Order to transfer the occupants to any Federal Prison in the Southeast, transfer the guards to a post where they can do some good, and tear the place down!
2. As for the "hunger strike", give each of them 3 days worth of MREs and a gallon of water and leave them alone. They will either eat or die. If they eat, obama can do as described in number one. If they die, problem solved.
the answer to #1 is that you listen to way to much right wing media.
I read somewhere that since it's a military base, he can't just close it. I don't know.
He doesn't have to close the entire Naval Base, just the prison.
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