Comments | ontd_political: What options does Obama have to close Guantanamo?

catbrooks in ontd_political

What options does Obama have to close Guantanamo?

May 02, 2013 10:47

(Reuters) - With his renewed vow to close the detention camp for foreign terrorism suspects at Guantanamo Bay, President Barack Obama has effectively assigned himself a list of possible ways to take the prison's population down from 166 to zero ( Read more... )

guantanamo bay, jail/prison/imprisonment, barack obama

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poetic_pixie_13 May 2 2013, 16:12:48 UTC

Well, better late than never?

I'm not going to get my hopes up though. Guantánamo is more of an 'attack on freedom' than any bullshit that the right wing comes up with. The fact that it's still open is a disgrace.

romp May 4 2013, 04:10:30 UTC

Agreed. And who will pay for a lifetime of psychiatric care?

tabaqui May 2 2013, 16:30:45 UTC

It makes me sick to think that there are people in there who are 'dangerous' and yet....have committed no crime. Wtf - are we just going to find some *new* shit hole to put them in?

Gitmo is sickening in every aspect, and I really want him to push this as far as he can.

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skellington1 May 3 2013, 21:17:00 UTC

EXACTLY.

The most dangerous thing about some of them must be that they've got every right to be pissed as fuck at the US.

mahsox_mahsox May 4 2013, 04:27:23 UTC

I have the probably unpopular view that the United states owes an offer of citizenship to any of them who it isn't going to prosecute. They've spent 10+ years directly subject to American rule in the most intrusive way possible, through no action that is illegal in America. I don't give a flying fuck that it wasn't on American soil or after formally going through migration processes... they weren't given a choice about that were they?