Comments on: NYT Reports “Potential Complications” with Closing Gitmo

By: Haik Bedrosian

Haik Bedrosian — Mon, 26 Jan 2009 21:23:30 +0000

Where else would you house foreign enemy combatants during an ongoing war – in our country? In their country?

We’ve had other wars before Afganistan, and we never needed an illegal torture prison in Cuba before. Suddenly it’s a no-brainer?

By: Charity

Charity — Mon, 26 Jan 2009 18:22:41 +0000

“Have you wondered whether it was right to open it in the first place?”

Honestly, it seems like a no-brainer to me. Where else would you house foreign enemy combatants during an ongoing war – in our country? In their country?

Look, I am not comfortable with the way things went down, but the alternatives are not acceptable.

In times of war, things can get uncomfortable. The president’s job is to protect the States.

By: Haik Bedrosian

Haik Bedrosian — Mon, 26 Jan 2009 17:53:28 +0000

I can’t help but wonder if maybe President Bush was right not to close the detention facility.

Have you wondered whether it was right to open it in the first place?

By: BBOW

BBOW — Sun, 25 Jan 2009 16:27:31 +0000

These are not criminals, nor are they POWs. A closer example would be John Andre, captured out of uniform by the Americans during the Revolutionary War. General Washington had him tried by a military tribunal. Then he was executed.

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By: JD Ryan

JD Ryan — Sat, 24 Jan 2009 23:10:05 +0000

Yeah, well that screw up happened on Bush’s watch. His incompetence isn’t a reason to leave Gitmo open.

By: Mister Guy

Mister Guy — Fri, 23 Jan 2009 22:14:26 +0000

There’s a difference between closing down the torture prison at Gitmo and just letting everyone go free. The vast majority of those that have been detained there have been let free so far without any chrages against them. What we are apparently down to is a number of people that the USA would like prosecute and/or hold onto, but the problem is that some of the “evidence” against these people has come from torture and can’t be used in any U.S. court.

The Gitmo torture prison has to be shutdown. It’s one of many black marks on the USA’s good name in the world that’s been caused by the now defunct Bush Regime. We’re supposed to be the good guys, and the good guys don’t torture people or hold them as detainees for years & years with no charges against them. Setting up the prison at Gitmo in the first place, so the USA could bogusly claim that our laws didn’t apply there, was a complete & total farse in the first place…as our U.S. court system has basically already told the Executive Branch.

I say prosecute the ones that are left that we have actual, real evidence against them in federal court, detain whatever number of people that the USA “picked up on the battlefield” as POWs, and then let the rest of them go.

Said Ali al-Shihri seems to have been “lucky” only in that the USA apparently didn’t have any legal reason to hold him anymore. Oh well…the rule of law works in strange ways sometimes…tell it to O.J….