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TheMercenary

06-10-2007 10:43 AM

Guantánamo

What would you do right now about Guantánamo Prison? If you had the power to do it would you send them all home? Regardless of the consequences some of them may face in their home countries? Continue with the trials? What should we do? The next President will have to face this question.

This made me think about it:

Chinese Leave Guantánamo for Albanian Limbo

http://www.nytimes.com/2007/06/10/wo...hp&oref=slogin

xoxoxoBruce

06-10-2007 11:52 AM

Quote:

The men who arrived there were given chores to do and beans to eat. Most of them were assigned aliases and shown how to fire an old AK-47 assault rifle, the only weapon they saw. One American intelligence official said that some of the Uighurs still at Guantánamo received more extensive training. The leader of the hamlet, a man called Abdul Musin, told visitors that they could stay on if they wanted to “liberate” other Uighurs, the men said, but that they were also free to go.

We want other countries to hand over terrorists with a hard-on for the US, but won't give the Chinese terrorists that have it in for them?

TheMercenary

06-10-2007 11:56 AM

Yea, I know what you are saying.

One man's terrorist is another man's freedom fighter.

piercehawkeye45

06-10-2007 06:14 PM

I would releast the innocent and send the questionable to regular prisions.

xoxoxoBruce

06-10-2007 06:50 PM

That's the problem, where do you release them?

rkzenrage

06-10-2007 06:55 PM

I would grant them due process.
Have the strength of our convictions.

TheMercenary

06-10-2007 08:40 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by rkzenrage (Post 353159)

I would grant them due process.
Have the strength of our convictions.

Ok, grant them "due process" as we would legal citizens of the US, then what? What do you do with the ones that are guilty and the ones that are not-guilty? Where do they go? Does Gitmo become the next Alcatrez or Devil's island?

rkzenrage

06-10-2007 09:07 PM

It becomes a prison and we give them full international prisoner rights under all treaties, the Red Cross and The Geneva Convention. Exactly what we want for Americans captured.
Again, strength of our convictions.
Again, give them everything we would demand for Americans captured by an enemy.
What happens to Gitmo' isn't really the issue, doing what is right is the issue.

Aliantha

06-10-2007 11:14 PM

Well said rkz.

NoBoxes

06-11-2007 02:43 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by xoxoxoBruce (Post 353155)

That's the problem, where do you release them?

Mexico, turnabout is fair play!

Happy Monkey

06-11-2007 10:34 AM

Powell Calls for Closure of Military Prison at Guantanamo
(reg required, but you can put whatever you want in the fields)

Quote:

Former secretary of state Colin L. Powell said yesterday that he would close down the U.S. military prison for enemy combatants at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, "this afternoon" because it has become a major problem in "the way the world perceives America."

"Essentially, we have shaken the belief that the world had in America's justice system by keeping a place like Guantanamo open and creating things like a military commission," Powell said on NBC's "Meet the Press."

Making it clear that he "would not let any of those people go," Powell said, "I would simply move them to the United States and put them into our more federal legal system." He said he sees no problem in detainees having the right of habeas corpus and getting their own lawyers. "Isn't that what our system is all about?"

Beestie

06-11-2007 10:52 AM

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[Colin Powell] said he sees no problem in detainees having the right of habeas corpus and getting their own lawyers. "Isn't that what our system is all about?"

And that, ladies and gentlemens, is the stinking problem with George W. Bush. And to think I actually wanted him to win last time around.

I admit it. It was a horrific mistake and I made it.

TheMercenary

06-11-2007 12:14 PM

Court overrules Bush 'enemy combatant' policy
Judges: President may not detain immigrant in U.S. without charging him

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/19172214/

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