What's the problem with that, they are willing to take prisoners in as citizens long as it is verified that they are innocent. I don't see what's wrong with that.
Gitmo Detention Now Closed
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but can you prove their guilt?
There's a lot of people in there that are most likely innocent, and it isn't an irrational request by the EU.
One door closes another stays open.
I did not know this but it does not surprise me. Odds on it staying open for the next 4/8 years?
http://www.theage.com.au/world/bagram-has-twice-the-inmates-of-cuban-jail-20090126-7pz0.html
I did not know this but it does not surprise me. Odds on it staying open for the next 4/8 years?
the name may change but the game remains the same
:facepalm:
he should let BP start drilling there... and then the oil well can conveniently explode
Hate to say I was right , I was hoping I'd be wrong
i knew they werent going to be able to close it from the day he announced it.
im sure illinoisans(?) are breathing a sigh of relief
Same as it ever was. 
zero surprise here
Hard to put the toothpaste back in the tube.
best analogy ever
Dug this up again since NBC news did a piece on the build up and expansion of Gitmo tonight. $700K new soccer area, 21 cable channels, life improvement classes...including financial planning, a library with 13,000 books and a per detainee cost of $800K per year. All this from a facility the President said would be closed within his first year. How many local elementary schools have 13,000 books? How many schools have cut programs due to funding? How many sports programs have been shut down due to lack of facilities?
And if Obama ignores all this, then it's not an actual issue then is it?
The days of prisoners, no matter where they are, living a better lifestyle than most of the general population need to come to an end.
Cable at Gitmo
And if Obama ignores all this, then it's not an actual issue then is it?
The days of prisoners, no matter where they are, living a better lifestyle than most of the general population need to come to an end.
Cable at Gitmo
Most of the general population? That's a bold claim. Hyperbole even?
What a f------ idiot!
And, they arent being hunted by SEALS or SF anymore...no one is shooting at them there. All that so they can again plot against the rest of the free world upon release...
Yes. It was my rant, it pisses me off, so I reacted with a typical immature pissed off statement. Does not lessen the the fact that the money spent on Gitmo is ridiculous and a broken promise by our government. Let me rephrase my previous statement after a nights sleep....
The days of prisoners, no matter where they are, living in conditions that make it more desirable to remain incarcerated need to end.
When this country can treat it's needy, veterans and senior citizens this well, then I'm all for trying it out on the prison population.
The Gitmo prisoners receive free health care (granted they don't have much of a choice since they can't go out shopping for their own) but yet health care cost for the average citizen is rising every year?
Socialist.
They haven't closed Gitmo because Congress (not the executive branch) said NIMBY to moving them to facilities in the US. In reality the large private prison system who helps out many of these people in Congress is a much bigger threat/drain on society than having a few more criminals from Gitmo in the the US prison system.
and obama knew this would be the response
he also knew his base wouldn't bother to find out, b/c it would put them in the uncomfortable position of holding 2 opposing ideas.
besides, what's a few more muslims in our prison industry? rounding error? ain't like we could make them any more pissed mainstreaming them into one of our finest hate factories
caution: bike related
A prisoner in the bicycle repair workshop
A prisoner in the bicycle repair workshop
One of my coworkers is currently stationed there...been a while since I have heard from him, actually.