Comments on: You sure you want to shut down Gitmo Mr. President? ?

By: shjOlds_442

shjOlds_442 — Fri, 02 Apr 2010 20:47:02 +0000

What would corruption care what it does? This sum up NObama in a mere sentence.

By: Bjorn

Bjorn — Fri, 02 Apr 2010 20:40:14 +0000

You misunderstand the nature and origin of constitutional rights if you think that a president can confer them on anyone.

Don’t forget that he was released during the Bush administration — and no one can accuse Bushies of being overly generous or soft when it came to detainees.

No one can know the impact of having been imprisoned for 6 years without charges and of then being released without any admission of wrong-doing or even mistake by those who imprisoned him. It does not excuse his joining al-Qaida, but it sure gives it context.

As for shutting down Gitmo, al-Qaida could not have hoped for such a powerful recruiting tool as Gitmo has turned out to be. Further, there are approximately 250 detainees remaining and a significant number of them have already been determined not to pose a danger to the US, but are being held anyway. Those who are determined to be a danger to the US should be charged and tried.

One last point: the source of the info about the No. 2 guy in Yemen is al-Qaida — are you sure you want to take their claim as gospel? Is it possible it’s simply propaganda?

By: Alex S

Alex S — Fri, 02 Apr 2010 20:06:25 +0000

LOL!

Yeah, so just keep on torturing civilians, who you dont prosecute because you have no proof, so you cant even bring them to trial.

Nut when has the US ever cared about the rule of law? They want to kill and torture anyone.

Its the american way, after all. Your country was built on the bloody genocide of the natives, for no reason other than you guys just love killing innocents.

By: Jim

Jim — Fri, 02 Apr 2010 19:30:48 +0000

Another person that conveniently forgot that McCain made the same promise. Would you be so upset if McCain was president?

America is supposed to be the symbol of Freedom. Not the symbol of a prison state. We are supposed to be better in some ways than China.

By: williams

williams — Fri, 02 Apr 2010 19:05:12 +0000

why did Bush release him?

By: mikea109

mikea109 — Fri, 02 Apr 2010 18:48:35 +0000

Frankly, I don’t believe Mr. President is sure of anything. I believe he is hellbent to prove to his constituents that he is a fire and brimstone decision maker. Even if he shoots from the hip and doesn’t think his decision through from beginning to end.

I believe Mr. President needs a lesson on how it works. Presidential decisions should never leave loose ends, they should have a beginning, a time for action, and a satisfactory result. In life, we don’t just make decisions and be damned the consequences ! Now, let’s go over that again. This time with the training wheels off !

By: bigsho222

bigsho222 — Fri, 02 Apr 2010 18:30:06 +0000

Yes I do si………… and it is explained very well as to why on this site:

http://www.theobamaupdate.com/index.php?s=gitmo&Submit=search

By: Mike

Mike — Fri, 02 Apr 2010 18:25:56 +0000

Yes. The release of this man proves GITMO is a failure.
1. There has been over 700 detainees at GITMO.
2. Over 500 have been released under the Bush Administration
3. The remaining 200+ can not be tried in any court since they were tortured.
4. The non-terrorists that were rounded up by the $500 Afgan. bounty polices are so angered by the fact that the country that is suppose to have the highest standard of civil liberties, have held them in a hole for 7yrs have now turned to terrorism.

Imagine being falsely arrested for a crime, spending seven years in jail with no trial and being tortured. I would think you would be pretty damn pissed.

By: Europe1

Europe1 — Fri, 02 Apr 2010 18:09:52 +0000

OK, two things:

1) after holding him and torturing information out of him for years, the Gitmo facility was so incompetent that it still couldn’t find anything out about this guy.

2) No sh*t sherlock!! You torture a guy for years in an illegal detention centre without access to basic rights of the law, and then when you release him he decides to fight against you! You don’t say! Did you expect him to be your best friend? Wake up and smell the coffee!!

‘Gitmo’ is an outrage and only helps the terrorists by giving them a cause. It should never have come into existence.

By: antimaron

antimaron — Fri, 02 Apr 2010 18:05:21 +0000

that’s what happens when you capture and torture Innocent people for years..they hate you…their relatives hate you…their countrymen hate you. we have created way more future terrorist than we have eliminated current ones