President George Bush Won't Close Guantanamo: Should It Be Closed?
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WASHINGTON, October 21, 2008 (AFP) - US President George W. Bush will likely not close the Guantanamo Bay prison for suspected terrorists before handing his successor the keys to the White House in January, the White House said Tuesday.
"We've long said that it won't be closed before the end of the president's term," spokeswoman Dana Perino said of the facility, reviled around the world as a symbol of heavy-handed US "war on terrorism" tactics.
Way to go Mr. President just hand more dirty work over to the next President. A job you could accomplish yourself but I gather it would be better off in Obama or McCain's hands.
All this after 2006 you said you would close Guantanamo but I gather this is NOT the first time you've lied to this country.
Here's the story.....President George Bush won't close Guantanamo.
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Give them a chance to defend themselves in court. Give them a fair trial.
Don't lock up whatever hundreds of people for multiple years.
Don't torture them, give them rights. Innocent until proven guilty.
This is NOT about releasing them back into society, it's about closing this place and giving those detained there an oppertunity to heard/tried/charged in court. Just to be charged with whatever crime they've been held there indefinately for.
Most of these were rounded up in Afghanistan and stamped enemy combatants for no reason or reasons that were made up by other rival tribal leaders for money.
If they're going to close Gitmo and these people are to be brought before our US courts where do we house them till then? However, Bush should do something BEFORE he hands over his Presidency to someone else to handle just like the economy and most everything else.
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Agreed
And I'm surprised they would even entertain the idea of closing it since it's become a frequent military line item when it comes to funding.
Given the horrid condition of the facilities it makes you wonder where the funding goes.
Give them rights?? They are not US citzens.
Court? What Court could you trial them in? It can't be a US Court because they are not US citizens and were not in the US when the crimes were commited. I am not familar with any World Court. There could be one?? As far as I know they are POWs.
Most of these people that are detained here are the world's most dangerous people. It would be foolish to release them. The US army should have killed them when they had the chance. Instead, they interrogated them and are left a huge mess of what to do with them. Releasing them should not be an option period.
They are human. There's something called the Universal Declaration of Human Rights.
Yes, there are international courts. Even if there weren't, international courts have been established in the past.
Dangerous people have rights too. No one is saying they should be released.
Let's not forget the innocent people in Guantanamo. And how can you even begin to determine who is innocent who is not, what their crimes were, how much they were involved if you don't even give them a fair trial.
But hey, I like your idea too. Kill them all and we can pretend the US gives a shit about human rights. Hypocrites.
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Detention Retention: Are Guantanamo Detainees All Innocent?
You do realize many there are innocent and we should've just killed them? So why don't just kill while there at Gitmo since you say most are the world's most dangerous people. Yeah right.
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Don't know of too many innocent prisoners in Guantanamo. Some were released even though they were in the grey zone for being guilty. Surprisingly they were recaptured by the US when fighting the troops right after they were released. The pows in cuba are pretty much guilty.
Now what to do with them? Not exactly sure... I think a trial is completely out of the question. The best thing I can think off the top of my head is to just wait out the war on terror and give them back to the country of origin and let them decide what to do with them after the war on terror. POWs are always given back after the war, not during.
After the war on terror? You think it's going to end? ever?
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Since when detainees at Giitmo were called POW's atleast POW's have rights. As a considered enemy combatant you have no rights.
Please show me some cases of prisoners released and recaptured my our troops, like you said before they should've killed them in that battle the second time around or why didn't they IF this is true?
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How do you know?
Why is a trial completely out of the question?
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Yes, after the war on terror. When we were in the cold war, we had kgb spies for over 30 years. They also had our agents as well just as long... pretty sad but it needed to be done. Thankfully the russians and us agreed to prisoner exchanges during the period.
Yes I think the war will end. How and when are big questions.
The war on terror is set up to NEVER EVER end. Any incident that happens around the world from now until can or will be considered to be part of the WOT.
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*The scientists of today think deeply instead of clearly. One must be sane to think clearly, but one can think deeply and be quite INSANE*....Nikola Tesla(a man who shaped our world of electricity with his futuristic inventions)
I thought the same thing about USSR. I'm sure people thought the same thing about Germany in the past. I'm sure ancient people though of that about Rome too... This war will end. No one has the answer yet.
I am with you on this one....I do agree that we have to deal with atrocious individuals...Look, my state houses Charlie up in Pelican Bay
It wouldn't surprise me if one day we see detainment camps set on land such as vineyards or other corporate conglomerates in the name of saving energy for slave labor....
Fair trials....for all...
please listen to the audio I posted yesterday from rjm....
I don't agree with people sweep....it's f*kt up b*s*...
Yes. there are terrorists and people who bomb the world, but is the guy who has a name of garcia or singh really always bad..many people who are put in these camps are people who invoke thought..... or have challenged someone's ego at a wrong place in time...
prayers for leanord peltier and mumia sent...
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*MUSIC IS the expression of EMOTION.....and that POLITICS IS merely the DECOY of PERCEPTION*
.....song_Music & Politics....Michael Franti
*The scientists of today think deeply instead of clearly. One must be sane to think clearly, but one can think deeply and be quite INSANE*....Nikola Tesla(a man who shaped our world of electricity with his futuristic inventions)
Prisoners -- But Won't Release Them *
The US military has dropped all charges against five men held at Guantanamo Bay
prison, but has no plans to release them. The news came just weeks after the
resignation of Lt. Col. Darrel Vandeveld, who was the prosecutor in all five
cases. He had accused the military of deliberately withholding evidence that
could have helped clear them. We speak to Michael Ratner of the Center for
Constitutional Rights.
Listen/Watch/Read
http://www.democracynow.org/2008/10/22/weeks_after_prosecutors_resignation
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.....song_Music & Politics....Michael Franti
*The scientists of today think deeply instead of clearly. One must be sane to think clearly, but one can think deeply and be quite INSANE*....Nikola Tesla(a man who shaped our world of electricity with his futuristic inventions)
Sorry, I didn't read your article. I'm blocked from it. Anyways, my guess is that charging people for crimes in war is very tuff thing to do. It would be nearly impossible to gain enough evidence on each individual. Hence, WWII after the germans surrender. There were just too many too prosecute. But what we have to remember here is that this people are POWs. You don't release POWs until after the war, or you exchange them during the war. The US does have to follow the Geneva convention rules on this. From what my buddies that served stated they have been well treated.
I agree with this, the War on Terror is set up to continue for as long as there are people out there committing violent terriorist attacks. Probably forever.
It should see a focus from the all out war we see now to improved intelligence and tactical strikes.
For as much as this Country has become a militarized nation this is the perfect war cause it will never end. Our country has now become motivated in the era of war by the powers that be in war profiteering and other hidden agenda.
Checkout the last two books by Chalmers Johnson.....*Blowback* and especially on militarism *The Sorrows of Empire*
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.....song_Music & Politics....Michael Franti
*The scientists of today think deeply instead of clearly. One must be sane to think clearly, but one can think deeply and be quite INSANE*....Nikola Tesla(a man who shaped our world of electricity with his futuristic inventions)
What a scary world view you have. Have you ever been outside US? Let me guess the world is black and white, USA is the "always" the good guys and Jesus knows you?
Tell me how do you win a war against an ideology. Do you bomb the ideology away or maybe water board it. Tell me what is the way we can, through force, defeat this ideology because that is basically what the "War on Terror" is. You can kill terrorists by the truck load but the ideology still exists and as long as it does you will have oppressed young uneducated muslims being drawn in by that ideology.
Your comments are just as scary.
You seemed to combine all the sterotypes into one, good work.
In one of his books Baer discusses how religious schools, in places like Saudi Arabia and Pakistan, use food to draw in these young men. They feed them and give them and their families food and necessities. This gives them a sense of hope and purpose only to use that as a mean to indoctrinate them into their ideology.
Take away their despair and you lessen the likelihood that these parasites, like Bin Laden, will be able to take advantage of them.
Rhetorical question: Why do you hate America so much?
How did we defeat the Soviets and Communist Expansion? Wasn't that an ideology? Yes, you can defeat ideology.
How can you defeat an idealogy when that idealogy can be anywhere, any country, just about ant person even someone in our country the US. Remember Timothy McVie.
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.....song_Music & Politics....Michael Franti
*The scientists of today think deeply instead of clearly. One must be sane to think clearly, but one can think deeply and be quite INSANE*....Nikola Tesla(a man who shaped our world of electricity with his futuristic inventions)
So Communism is dead? We defeated the Soviet Union, a nation, we didn't defeat Communism because guess what it is still alive today and growing in areas of South America.
Also we didn't defeat anyone. The Soviet Union collapsed due to internal reform.