Gitmo detainees and President Obama
It seems that President Obama will have to either close Gitmo as he promised, or keep it open and dodge questions about Gitmo. Will the MSM let him dodge this sticky issue. Yes.
Of course, there is always hope that President Obama can rehabilitate the terrorists at Gitmo through his very own Trinity United Church of Christ, America Hating Racist Ranting Program (AHRRP). I am sure Rev. Wright would be glad to take a bunch of America haters under his wing.
Gitmo detainees: Obama will either have to hit the golf course every time the topic of finding halfway homes for the Gitmo terror suspects comes up – or he’ll have to actually farm them out. Maybe start up an adoption charity that puts them on display at United Nations meetings: The ASPCT (American Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Terrorists).
Comments
Where's the conflict?
Let's just inprison the whole stinking world & just add the cost to the National Debt. Isn't Cuba one big prison?
Secondly, if they are sent back to their home country, will we have to fight them again somewhere else. Because, their home country may just turn them loose or let them escape.
Thirdly, Bush made a poor decision to put them in Cuba. I suggested at the time it would be better to keep them Iraq. And, treat them a POWs. When the new government is established in Iraq or Afghanistan, let them return to their home country.
In WWII and the Korean War, many enemy combatants were just shot in the battlefield.
2. If their home country is really so foolish as to do that, we should be re-examining our relationship with that country. This assumes of course that these people are actually guilty. And if there's that much proof.... see earlier comments.
3. Bush's mistake was trying to hide what he was doing rather than using the proper channels. If there's shortcomings in the proper way of doing things, then fix them.
As for shooting them, if these people are really the Al'Qaeda they are claimed to be, I have no problem with shooting them on the battlefield. Screw the protocols of surrender. They don't negotiate, neither do we.
On the other hand, we are "Monday Morning Quarterbacking". It is easy to second guess the decision to use Cuba as a prison. Now, we must deal with it. The next time a president wants to get involved in "Nation Building", I hope the voters run him and his entire party out of Washington.