Gitmo closed yet?

acrossssSsssshittt

it seems sad that everyone here is talkin about these "criminals", whether the gangbangers, or the neo-nazis, or the terrorists, or the cannibals, as if they're all subhuman creatures and deserve to remain in the shit that they're wallowing in ... i mean maybe I digress... but fuckin hell... look at the world order and our god for saken systems... and here believe me, i ain't just referring to 1st world, western systems either.... i'm thinkin equally about say the prisoners in Pakistan and the system ere etc... i just find it really difficult to lose sight of the big picture, and to not consider the fuckin circumstances that thrown people is such hellish situations...

I'm sorry but some of the posts here just sound so cold and numb, it's sad...

again, i guess I'm slightly off the topic here, but i had to say this...

gimmesometruth27

unsung wrote:

I think it is funny some of you bleeding hearts have sympathy for these people. These people would slice your head off without a second thought but you complain if they get their meals at 12:05 instead of 12:00.

your superdramatic presumptions are funny...nobody is complaining about meals. it is due process and all criminals under our founding documents are entitled to it....surprised you are not complaining about wasted tax payer dollars going to keep them locked up instead of going to trial and either incarcerating them or letting them go...

the question in this thread is if gitmo is still open and the answer is yes and people tried to explain why it is...

rebornFixer

Cosmo wrote:

Tell your friend that these guys are not al Qaeda Delta Forces... there is no such thing as al Qaeda Delta Forces... in fact, the al Qaeda Delta Forces strap explosives to their balls.

acrossssSsssshittt

Ajedigecko...

to your private message, i thought I'd bring it on the main page, no harm in that... I'm sure serving in the army, you've seen a lot of things, but I should hope that in so doing you've also realized that in invading foreign countries you ain;t exactly "liberating" anyone either ... it's all war and killing at the end of the day...

with respect to Islamic rebellion, US foreign policy since the 70's is exactly what caused people to get pissed in this part of the world, so no shit, the US has to pay the price for that. The acts that the US forces have committed in all parts ofthe world that they've invaded aren't exactly "compassionate" either so...

inmytree

unsung wrote:

I think it is funny some of you bleeding hearts have sympathy for these people. These people would slice your head off without a second thought but you complain if they get their meals at 12:05 instead of 12:00.

great point...

I hate it when my lunch is late...noon means noon, damn it...

Jason P

I guess the answer to the question this thread posed is a capital NO.

http://blog.nj.com/njv_editorial_page/2011/04/the_only_decision_holder_could.html

It doesn't surprise me as the political fallout would have killed those that supported civilian trials. If O.J. could be found innocent, just imagine how ten years of being held in purgatory could be used by a defense lawyer to get someone off on a technicality.

cajunkiwi

unsung wrote:

I think it is funny some of you bleeding hearts have sympathy for these people. These people would slice your head off without a second thought but you complain if they get their meals at 12:05 instead of 12:00.

Pretty sure asking for the law to be followed isn't the same as sympathizing with criminals. Though it's not the first time you've made that claim on this board, so I don't expect it to sink in this time either.

puremagic

unsung wrote:

Just checking if this is still in the works since the order was signed Jan 22 2009. That one year sure went by fast, tick tock tick tock.

If you asked the question, then you must surely know the 'real' answer. Its not President Obama's fault that Gitmo is still open. The 2009/2010 Republican controlled Senate with the help of Democrat crossover votes inserted a provision in the Defense Department's appropriations NOT TO FUND the closing of Gitmo. Bottom line is they are afraid of having the American public sentence these detainees to death on US soil because of retaliations. Yet, ADX currently houses suspected terrorists.

http://hotair.com/archives/2009/10/05/c ... s-in-2010/


http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2009/05/2 ... 05797.html

puremagic

unsung wrote:

I think it is funny some of you bleeding hearts have sympathy for these people. These people would slice your head off without a second thought but you complain if they get their meals at 12:05 instead of 12:00.

There's no bleeding hearts, maybe some pissed off American citizens who had to forefeet their civil liberties because our politicians talk tough when it comes to sending US soldiers into battle, yet they're candy-asses are too afraid to be in the same courtroom as these fucks. They're willing to let them rot in Gitmo because they are too afraid to sentence these facks to death face-to-face, so they again hid behind our military to do their dirty work.

know1

Our troops are still overseas fighting and we don't here "Get 'em home NOW" every 5 minutes like we used to, either.

Jason P

know1 wrote:

Our troops are still overseas fighting and we don't here "Get 'em home NOW" every 5 minutes like we used to, either.

That is because Bush is no longer in charge.

It sounds like troops will not be pulled out of Iraq at the end of 2011 as politicians are already posturing that they will stay IF the Iraqi government asks them to stay. But I don't think any of us should be surprised.