| Will Git-Mo Be Gone? |
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| by Carolyn Barta | Fri, Jun 22, 2007, 11:03 AM |
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The Bush administration is nearing a decision to close the Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, detention facility and move terror suspects to military prisons elsewhere, according to an AP story. Washington Post says administration split on Guantanamo. VP Cheney opposes the shutdown.
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written by perplexed , June 22, 2007 How can a prsident who is so "hard-headed" on some decisions cave so easily with media pressure on others? I'm beginning to think Bushes Brain (Rove) is losing it!
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written by jack jett , June 22, 2007 I think the issue is that once these folks are moved into some sort of legal situation, they are going to spill the beans on what has been going on there. Which will put the USA in an even worse light than it is in now. When they released the Aussie, they made him agree to stay silent for a year. It is a story that will come out soon, create massive legal problems for the President and perhaps prove some sort of war criminal behavior. The bummer part is that there are probably some real criminals there that should have been brought to trial, convicted and sentanced. Now that the President and especially Cheney have not respect throughout the world, they have got themselves in yet another quagmire. If you think about it, it is really sad. The youth of today will suffer the consequences of this administration. Jack Jett
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written by Right Wing Republican Volunteer , June 22, 2007 Every guy sitting in Gitmo is one less guy strapping on bombs or shooting at our guys!
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written by Bernard Stoller , June 22, 2007 How many of the "guys at Gitmo" have been convicted of ANY crime? How many cases have been thrown out? How many have simply been released without any trial? Gitmo, like the rest of Bush's war policies, is an utter failure.
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written by perplexed , June 23, 2007 Jack & Bernie, Gitmo is good policy! What's not good is the thought of American Mainstream media that there's no such thing as a prisoner of war. Or that POW's have a right to the American Justice system. And to insinuate that Bush & Cheney have authorized wholesale violations of human rights is just ignorant! While you two may live in a fantasy world the truth is America (sometimes to our detriment) plays be the rules. Rules which our enemies do not!
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written by Ed Cognoski , June 23, 2007 Closing Gitmo doesn't mean releasing the prisoners. It means trials and convictions and imprisonment through open court procedures. The kind of system that has made America the envy of the world for two centuries. The kind of system that the Bush administration has been all too willing to jettison in its well-meaning, but disastrously counter-productive War on Terror.
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written by JACK JETT , June 23, 2007 to right wing conservative voter...... yeah..gitmo has really cut way back on both of those things......NOT
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written by Bernard Stoller , June 23, 2007 Perplexed, I am perplexed by your statement that Gitmo is good policy. You talk about POW's, but the Bush policy is that these guys are NOT POW's, but some new species (heretofore unknown to man) called "enemy combatants." And since they are a new species, there are no rules that apply specifically to them, so the Bushies just make some up to suit themselves. Play by the rules, you say? Bush just makes 'em up as he goes along. So much for the "rule of law" upon which this nation was founded, and lived pretty decently for 200 years. We now live under the "rule of Bush."
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written by T Miller , June 23, 2007 Bring the terror suspects to the US and there will be a mad rush by the democratic congress to apologize and reward them with amnesty.
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written by Right Wing Republican Volunteer , June 23, 2007 T Miller You are exactly right! But, in addition to amnesty, our Democrat friends will want to pay these terrorists millions in "compensation" which they will then use to buy more guns and bullets and bombs to kill us. Yes, our Democrat friends actually want more terrorist attacks against us so that they can wag their fingers at President Bush and scream "Its all your fault!"
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written by Imogene Yuss , June 23, 2007 I don't your democrat buddies have any need to yell "it's your fault"..... Everyone that lives on this planet knows that this war is his fault. You are right(winged) though the fear of any sort of release is going to lead to a plethora of lawsuits. That is why the cheney's and the bush's are trying to place themselves above the law at this point. they know a war crime tribunal is headed their way and their primary concern is their personal wealth. This then would make this story coincide with Mr. Cronyn who wants to outlaw murderbilia.
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written by randye , June 23, 2007 Mr. Stoller, The administration took the term "enemy combatant" from a 1942 SCOTUS ruling which distinguished between lawful and and unlawful combatants, spies, sabatours, ununifrmed soldiers. Whatever the merits of Gitmo, the term aint new. Write comment
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