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Why is Obama ignoring the will of the people, who HATE terrorists more than they love, or even have a basic understanding of, the rule of law?!
The TV pundits are telling us that this will cost Obama the election in 2012. Day Two and already a dismal, terrorist-loving failure.
Talking about 2012 that way may just be plain old stupid. Obama's been warning you, preparing you, for months that he's stepping things up in Afghanistan. Taking into account how incredibly difficult & slow it will be to withdraw from Iraq and re-assign military 'resources', four years from now you will still be a country "at war" & I heard that Americans don't like to change presidents during time of war. ;)
It will just be shadow puppetry, a PR stunt.
I want that clarified.
NOW.
They were taken unconstitutionally, tried unconstitutionally, and most likely had information beaten out of them.
THAT IS NOT ADMISSABLE.
If the US system of laws and values is too shaky and weak to deal with people in an ethical way, then the US stands for nothing whatsoever.
And why Jeff Jiffylube Guckert Gannon Story didn't get any traction.
Now we know why.
Canadian Omar Khadr was accused of killing an American soldier with a grenade during a firefight in Afghanistan in July 2002. Most of the evidence against him is based on a series of confessions Omar allegedly made at the age of 15 while in U.S. custody at the military base in Bagram and later in Guantanamo. Omar's defense team claims that these are false confessions extracted under torture.
The U.S. vs Omar Khadr includes Omar's first-hand account of the torture and mistreatment he claims to have suffered. Not only is there extensive evidence that the U.S. Forces were using torture in that time period, but a Bagram cellmate and one of his interrogators corroborate his story. One of Omar's interrogators was later convicted in the murder of a detainee in U.S custody in Bagram.
http://www.cbc.ca/documentaries/doczone/2008/om...
All talk, so far. The bureaucracy has a full year to come up with whatever. I'll believe it when I see something actually happen.
As to the corporate media, who the Hell is watching that crap any more? If you do, you only have yourself to blame for their continued existence. You might as well listen to Reichsmarshall Limbaugh, and support his advertisers.
Kudo's to Obama if he means it, and does it. We'll have to back him up, and keep him honest. Otherwise, business as usual will creep all over him. F*ck "the media." THIS is the media, now. Use it, it's yours.
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1) they never heard even one story about closing Guantanamo
2) with he signing, the doors have been opened and trrrrrist are getting picked up in jihad pickup trucks and are heading for the U>S>A!
3) if we're not torturing people hwat assurances do "Americans" havew that they are safe!
It's quite pathetic if you ask me and Gibbs better go back and study some of what has transpired in the past because this BS needs to be stopped in it's tracks.
http://republicanleader.house.gov/News/Document...
Either way, you'll watch one of your elected representatives telling you that in spite of nongovernmental organization and reliable press reports to the contrary, the prisoners at Guantanamo are not just healthy and happy — they're being spoiled at our expense, living in the US armed forces equivalent of Club Med.
Why? They've got the aforementioned chicken entrees (with two types of fruit), they've got prayer mats and they've got copies of the Quran.
http://www.flakmag.com/opinion/shredder41.html
I understand your discombobulation as all you have hoped for slips away. But I can tell you with certainty: Life is much better in the light. Come out from under your rock and see for yourself.
Here is the link of an CNN's interview with Mohammed Iqbal who has just been released after spending six years without charge.
<script src="http://i.cdn.turner.com/cnn/.element/js/2.0/video/evp/module.js?loc=int&vid=/video/world/2009/01/22/sayah.pak.gitmo.detainee.cnn" type="text/javascript"></script><noscript>Embedded video from CNN Video</noscript>
Now, had those people (we must not forget they are people with families) been accused of something at least it would have made it semi-okay (given what we've heard of torture claims and affirmations), However, most of the 800 detained have been there with NO CHARGE, and that is OPPRESSION and INJUSTICE and must be stopped.
That's fine, but doesn't go far enough.
The land and the facilities need to be given back to Cuba and we need to leave for good. Having that there just means this will all happen again.