Closing Arguments: Obama’s Gitmo Goodbye

Setting these people free is ASKING for trouble. This is a decision we will all will regret.

I guess obama is going to let these terrorists loose or place them in a prison in the US where they can indoctrinate the general prison population. Those 200+ terrorists will soon become 200,000+ terrorists. Big mistake.

A stupid promise, a stupid action. Most observers, including one local to the Dallas market, says it is a show place where the detainees eat better than the guards.

I do not agree with closing Gitmo right away, but I do agree with quickening the process and getting the criminal’s into proper hands and the innocent out and back to their family’s.

I believe this is the worst mistake that obama will make through out his presidency. This prison has holding suspected terrorist for a while. Why he is closing it down is beyond me. I dont understand his motives and they make absolutley no since. This prison has been working for a while now. Why stop doing something that has been working. Where are we going to put the prisoners from there?
This is an incrediably stupid decsion on his part.

Close Gitmo !

I agree with President Obama’s decision to close the prison. I think this will send a positive message to the world and our nation that we will abide by ethical laws that we all can respect. This will increase our moral standing both domestically and throughout the world.

I think closing the base is a mistake. I understand that they are people and he wants to treat them humanly, however these are suspected terrorist. I don’t think we can treat them like everyday criminals. They plot and plan to destroy us. Some are willing to kill themselves in order to kill us. You can interrogate them using normal tactics.

I think President Obama was right in doing this today. I think his reasoning for doing it, as stated at the signing, is very good.
Even if there are problems as a result of this decision, as President Obama stated, you don’t do what is right only when it’s convenient. Also, in the event that there are problems, I would blame George Bush. Bush did what was wrong and now President Obama is trying to correct it.

I believe it is a terrible mistake to close Guantanamo.
Enemy combatants should not be handled through our civilian courts.

I agree with the closing

I agree with the decision that the President has made to close Gitmo Bay. I disagree with the way detainees are questioned and treated by Americans upholding law. The military/USA is suppose to show other countries examples not be the bad seed. I love this decision and hope that all innocent detainees are returned safely to their country and families. Detainees that are rightfully being held need to be treated as a regular detainee in an American correctional facility. We never hear of murderers in correctional facilities being waterboarded or forced feed. Why treat the detainees at Gitmo any different? President Obama has made a great decision. Great 2nd day of work!

I absolutely do not approve of President Obama’s decision to close the Guantanamo Bay prison! It sends the crazy message that it is/was OK for them to cut off our soldiers’ heads, but we shouldn’t be allowed to drip water on them! I fear it is only the first of many, many bad decisions the new President will make.

A!! YEA!! needless to say this needs to happen!! It was stupid to begin with..Everybody is not out to get us! I think we do more damage to our selves by being so closed minded and to protective. Like a mother hen. To continue to torture these people..if they have not told you anything by now.they are not going too and would you like our men treated like that? I am 50 and my father and brother were in the army so I know.

Tho most of us have no idea how hard it will be to completely close Gitmo, Obama has started the path to conforming our actions to our ideals and I could not be prouder of our country and our President. For almost eight years, I have been shamed by the existence of Gitmo.

President Obama is doing what should have been done long ago. Better yet, it never should have occurred. It was a means of holding people outside the reach and function of our legal system. Whether those people were or are “good” or “bad”, it only make us bad to abandon our precious legal rights and system of justice in dealing with them. We should not abandon our constitutional principles and ethics, and the laws that support them.

I DON’T THINK WE SHOULD CLOSE IT DOWN. WHAT DO THEY PLAN ON DOING WITH ALL THE INMATES? WHO IS GOING TO FUND THE COST TO CARE FOR THEM . AND AREN’T THEY DANGEROUS TO SOCIETY?//

I agree with Obama on closing The Guantanamo Bay prison camp.
What to do with the alleged terrorists held there?
Read the Constitution and do what it suggests.
Robin

I need to see the plan on what we plan to do with the prisoners. You can not just let them go free back in their own countries. They hate the USA. Hind site is 20/20. I wouldn’t want to be saying that after closing this prison and one of them attacks the USA again.

Yes, close Gitmo

I strongly disagree with the idea of closing Guantanamo Bay Prison.

It’s about time. I hope he’ll also end the practice of swooping up people in other countries and imprisoning them.
I also grieve that he has not said a word, that I know of, in support of the beleaguered inhabitants of Gaza. He has said Israel has a right to defend itself, but how can it be right to kill so many innocent people, and to reduce their homes to rubble?
Still, I’m very pleased with Obama’s first two days, especially the decision to close Guantanamo. Camp X-Ray, as Rumsfeld gleefully called it (or someone did). Rumsfeld and Bush thought it was funny.

At the end of the day you have to ask if his actions will protect or hurt the safety of the american people. This will hurt our safety by showing weakness. We are dealing with primitivs who have no regard for human life. If having him tested before this decision was made,certainly this enhances the chances of attack on our country, as captives will be given a country club treatment

They key word is “suspected”. It is utterly against our principles, that is if we really believe in them, to rob people of their lives merely based on suspicion. Either prove them guilty or let them go. The founding fathers understood very clearly that this means that more guilty people will go free, but they also understood the other option is that more innocent people will have their lives taken from them.

I think it was the worst decision he could have made. I think Bush at least kept us safe from any further terrorist attacks by doing what was necessary. And I have to add that I just can’t believe how incredibly biased the whole tone of the Nightline article was. The media fawning over Obama is sickening. I truly hope he succeeds and our country gets back on track, but I would really enjoy seeing the news just reported without feeling like I am watching Obama cheerleaders.

This is a very scary thought. To do this in under a year w/o any form of ‘backup’ plan set, is total lunacy!
I was very excited about Obama for about 24 hrs. This ‘bomb’ he has dropped on us today is shockingly unrealistic.
Not many of us agreed w/Bush, but this was one thing he did at least semi right. And, since 911, we’ve had NO further major attacks on US soil. So, he was doing something right somewhere. If anyone believes we were not spared another horror show like 911, b/c no one tried, they are in LaLa Land.
I also don’t believe we should be ‘nice’ to people who hate & want to destroy us. WaterBoard! Do anything they’d do to one of our prisoners, to help get needed information. What’s with all that protection for terrorists?
Aren’t WE the ones needing protection from them?
If Obama can come up w/a viable alternative to that prison, than I may agree w/his decision, depending on what it is. However, he has NO plan on what to do w/over 200 potential threats to the US.
If something happens b/c of his ignorant decision, the country will never give him a 2nd term. Nor should we.
They must be dancing in their cells tonight!

yes , waste of tax payer money.Either charge them or let them go.Out with the old in with the new.

Yes, now where are the prisoners going to be go?

I have mixed emotions about closing GITMO because it hasn’t been announced what they are going to do with the detainees. I think Washington DC would be a great place to turn them loose, far away from me.

Yes, I do agree; instead of asking what message the closing of the military prison sends the international community, we should be asking what message does keeping it open sends? It is very hipocritical of the United States to play the role of Human Rights Watchdog around the world, but then expect that our government’s violation of human rights (even those of possible and confirmed terrorist) is justified. Remember MLK “Injustice anywhere is a threat to justice everywhere.” You or your children could potentially be next in line to have your human rights violated….but then it would not be fair!

I am glad President Obama is starting to take the steps necessary to close the prision at Gitmo. Indefinite incarceration without trial or stated charges is not the “American Way” I was taught in school. We use to be a nation of “law and order” with a clear knowledge of what is right and what is wrong. Those differences have been blurred over the last few years and not to our credit.

I think this is his first big mistake of his presidency and I,m sure it’s the first of many that he wil be making. Our country has been pretty safe after 9-11 and I,m afraid those days are over. He is opening up our country to anyone that wants to see Americans dead. Its to bad people could not see what a good man President Busch was. Obama isn’t half the man Busch was.

I think he is going too fast on this. What are the plans to handle the inmates? Are they going to be let go free? Housed elsewhere? If people think the staff was inhuman I wonder what the American public will think when other nations handle inmates. If a inmate won’t talk just cut the tongue out?
Torture is not good. The problem is if your suspect KNOWS you can’t touch them they have no reason to give any info. Anyone ever heard of the IRA and cordless drills? THAT is torture. Or cutting off soldiers heads (that are tied down) on the internet?
Yep hardened folks can lie even under torture. You don’t bank EVERYTHING on what one person says. So you interview others and compare info. I feel that as long as we don’t do long term damage. (break bones) there are times when force (or fear of force) is needed.
This is not a card game folks.

What do the victims and victims families of 9 – 11 think? Did the
terrorists show any mercyg to them or families as they died excruciating deaths or left devastated families.
What would Obama do had his family been affected by 9 11 terroists?
sad day, the terroists will say ..ahhh the “softies” are back in power we can do as we wish like during Clinton years!

NO! HUGE MISTAKE, THAT WE WILL ALL REGRET! LET’S NOT PAMPER THE TERRORISTS!

Yes, I agree with President Obama in closing the Guantanamo Bay prison camp. If we are going to lead by example, then we, as a nation, have to lead by the proper and correct example, from the top down, from the bottom up, and from the inside out. Integrity: doing the right thing, even when no one is looking. Well, the entire world has been looking at us, and it hasn’t been a pretty sight. Now it’s time to correct the errors that have been made. May God bless America as we do what’s right in His eyes, and according to His word and examples. Thank you.

I am very glad that President Obama signed the Executive Order to closed Gitmo…

What pea brain came up with this idea?
Where are the criminals going to be housed?

With the stroke of a pen, and a blip in the brain, Obama has totally forgotten the 9-11 terroist attach on thousands of innocent people in New York City

MAJOR, MAJOR mistake! These are suspected TERRORISTS. Have we forgotten that? They do not have any ethics or any morals what so ever. They are willing to die just to make sure that Americans die. How sick is that? We sure don’t want them brought here to the U.S. Leave them where they are!

I don’t agree with this move at all.Why don’t we just surrender in Iraq and look like the weak nation when we gave up in Viet Nam.This is just what the enemy is predicting, thet the U.S.is just a paper tiger and can’t endure a long war. They can just wait and we will give up and go home with our tails between our legs.This STINKS!

They are not all terrorists – some were turned in for bounties by personal enemies, some were in the wrong place at the wrong time and picked up in sweeps,etc. For those who are truly dangerous we have supermax prisons some of which are not crowded at all, having been built mainly to help local economies like the one in Boscobel Wisconsin.

I felt safe with President Bush in office. Closing Gitmo is a mistake and it will come back to hurt the American people. I don’t sleep as well at night with President Obama in charge.

This decision on the surface may seem like forward thinking. However does Mr. Obama realy believe that he was the first person in history to believe that this benevolent jesture or humanitarian act is original thinking and would serve the cause of protecting our freedom?? This is incredibly naive. Those who hate us will never remember nor care that he did this. And our true allies who know the real history of this fight did not need to see this jesture to continue to have faith in our cause.
The truely sad aspect of this act is that it only serves one’s own self fulfilment. One who wants to satisfy an inner need to add some value in their own life.
We did not need to jeopardize our saftey and security with such a naive and selfish act.
It is very likely that some of these prisoners that were released will in time come back to strike against our country. And innocent Americans will be killed. Probably long after Mr. Obama has moved on into a comfortable retirement. Sadly there will be no recourse against his reckless act. We had a constitional backbone many years ago that would put our countries saftey first and foremost! Not some liberal interpretation that fits their personal agenda.
Ex President Clinton dismantled our foriegn inteligence and we saw the affects of that move.
This is truely sad and in some perspective Un-American.
Where is his backup plan for detaining potential terrorists.
One cannot help but wonder if he is in fact undermining our saftey and security.
Really,….you have the audacity to make one of your first acts, an act that potentially undermines all Americans!!
God help to preserve this country as we once knew it. Save us from this infiltrator.

What does President Obama propose to do with the suspects already in custody if they are found guilty? I don’t think the Geneva Convention should come into play because these suspects are not an army from any specific country. They are a bunch of cold blooded killers who have absolutely no consideration for human life. They and their followers are responsible for the deaths of over three thousand people. They were also were responsible for kidnapping and beheading our soldiers. They did not adhere to the articles of the Geneva Convention in those cases, but yet they scream for it when they are in our custody. THEY DO NOT DESERVE ANYTHING! I was willing to give President Obama a fair chance, but I can already see that he cares more about protecting the civil rights of killers than protecting the rights of law abiding U.S Citizens. People can say what they want about George W. Bush, but there is no denying this truth. We never had another terrorist attack on our soil after September 11th. Maybe President Obama should learn a few things about what works and what doesn’t. Don’t mess with what works.

Whining, crybaby americans are to blame for the length of the war in Iraq…we did’nt show a united front behind President Bush…Terrorists took note of this pressure by the cowards here, and it gave them the resolve to continue fighting.
Closing Gitmo will further convince the terrorists of the world that we are weak….O’messiah may as well send invitations to them to attack Americans again. But O’Sideshow would rather build On his long running commercial ad campaign depicting his greatness…then keep our country safe.

Yes. It was a very courageous move to stop torture & close the U.S. prison in someone else’s Country, namely Cuba. We did a shameful thing at Abu Gharib in Iraq & again at Guantanamo. President Obama is a man to be respected. Hopefully, in time, the U.S. can gain some of our lost respect back in the eyes of the world. Those detainees are young Iraqi’s some picked up just for standing around. No charges were even placed against them. Why are people worried that they would be put into American Society. I’m sure they would love to go home to their families & loved ones in Iraq. Send them there. We pay for planes to take the illegals back to Mexico so they can sneak back into the U.S. the same night, let’s put the Iraqi’s on a plane & send them to the homeland we captured them from.

I am proud and scared, just as scared as the rest of you but it was not a mistake, it was heroic, one man, one man can change the world i bealive that.
Not in a fairy tale kind of way but in the way that has been shown to me by history by evolution, CHANGE people, CHANGE! it is the wonder that moves us, and some don’t even belive in it.
I am glad I’m alive here and now that i can see history be writen and singed, it is an amazing feeling.

To close Gitmo, is in invitation for terrorist to come on in! Clear the innocent of all charges, Punish the guilty as they would you! And Sue, I totally agree with you! Thanks for your words and everyone else as well!

This is a swift and decisive action of foolish, short-sightedness taken by a naive new president only hours after being sworn in. I expected no less from him. He is much more concerned about world opinion than punishing those that wish us genuine harm. These moves tie our hands and limit how we can deal with true terrorists. Way to go!!! Who’s side are you on anyway??
Those who say Gitmo is an embarrassment are embarrassed of the wrong things. I’m embarrassed there are actually weak and clueless people in our country who would say such things. Ass kissers.
Maybe next Obama will announce an amnesty program simply asking all terrorists to just turn themselves in. We can call it the “B. Huessin Obama Weapons to Plowshares Program”. The program will be a great success because Everyone Loves Obama. This will help spur new economic growth, fuel the new economy and restore our country’s right standing in the world. Empty words Ass kissers!
…Maybe if we coddle or simply ignore the terrorists they will go away. What do you think?

Typical Liberal mentality ..close Gitmo to free potential terrorist so we can continue to give $365 Million tax dollars each year to Planned Parenthood for abortions to kill innocent unborn babies (which apparently is not enough as Pelosi and other “left leaders” want to increase the annual amount to $700 million). Revoke the Mexico City Policy so the U.S. can send millions more of our tax dollars to foreign countries for family planning (i.e. more abortions) while millions of Americans are out of work, have no healthcare or food, need heat for the winter, and improved education. All the while the government continues to take part of my hard earned money to put into an insolvent Social Security system that is going broke and I will never see a dime of my money they took over the last 35 years! Finally as if that’s not enough the left is trying to force private insurance companies to pay for the abortions of innocent unborn babies while thousands of families can not afford healthcare already! That should really increase health insurance premiums, so even fewer people will be able to afford healthcare insurance. Some people never learn and don’t care to.

Pres. Obama is not wasting any time showing his lack of leadership. If he does not have the stomach to deal with these scoundrels he should not have ran for office. These are unconventional prisoners who are conducting unconventional warfare and must be dealt with in an unconventional manner. I am curious to see what will happen to them. Perhaps they will be placed on probation and then they will change their ways. Let’s get real people.

Great move! Should be done in 2 months though. Bring what few real troublemakers there to USA and try them hear. Send the rest back to their home country. This will help start repairing the damage the Bushees did to our reputation.

I strongly disagree with this executive order. He has kept his word to himself, NOT TO UNITED STATES OF AMERICA.

well maybe ABC should listen to the people once , they are all against this mad man of a president he has no brains lets see how long it takes abc to figure out they are sitting at the side of the biggest waste of a president in history he will run the United States into the ground faster then the terrorist’s did it to New York this is a sad day for america this president just showed how far left he really is for the first time in my life I am ashamed to be an american whoops that is what mrs obama said!!

what happened to the poll abc did you remove it because most of the comments are against the president that is just fine you liberal fools your day will come!

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They are NOT all terrorists, you morons!
You are probably among the 75 per cent who believed Saddam Hussein helped knock down the Twin Towers and thus got bamboozled into Iraq by W. and his neocons.

WRONG, WRONG, WRONG!!!
Our people get their heads chopped off, burned alive, hung from bridges & left there & shot while being filmed, & they get a break from Waterboarding? Has everyone that’s OK w/this, forgotten they even killed journalist? NOT people who posed any threat to them at all?
So, we let them know that’s all OK & well to do. You won’t have to deal w/prison here at all, b/c we’re closing ours down. You can come to US soil & watch TV, play games, read more books on how to kill us, & call your friends here in the US, to laugh about how good it is to be in prison in the US! AND, hey, why not get to have your buddies & lovers, visit w/you too!? You can have them smuggle all kinds of stuff in the prison for you, so you can take them over while you’re in there.
“ATTICA” FOR TERRORISTS!
Then, get a bigger laugh as you wait to get a ‘fair trial’, that will cost US AMERICANS, MILLIONS OF DOLLARS WE DON’T HAVE! But, b/c you will be treated the same as someone who robbed a bank here, you will sit laughing in your cell, getting educated, exercised, fed well, & all your medical needs met, while Americans will continue to lose their homes, retirement, dignity, minds, & have no health insurance, or jobs.
While you’re in there, why not befriend some American Psychos, who will be more than happy to ‘join’ your cause, & you can teach them some of your ‘tricks’ they may not know about already…and, of course, vice versa!
We’ve been a mockery for countries who hate us, & now it will surely continue.
Like was said prior, they are dancing, not only in their cells tonight, but in the streets, all over the places that hate us.
Is anyone really that stupid to think that closing GTB is going to change their minds about us, & get us some respect back? I think NOT! Too much water is under the bridge now for that.
Let’s be real.
All this obscenely crazy move will do, is get us ANOTHER 9/11…ONLY WORSE NEXT TIME! And a lot sooner than anyone will think.
God Help Us ALL.

These “detainees” at Gitmo are not US citizens charged with petty crimes. They are not uniformed enemy combatants that were “defending their country”. They are TERRORISTS. They fly hyjacked planes into civilian buildings…rig bombs to kill as many innocents as possible…saw off peoples heads… But even at Gitmo they were (at least before Obama suspended it) going to get a trial. I don’t know what Obama intends on doing with these prisioners but closing Gitmo will demonstrate to our enemies that we are a land of idiots!

You know many of Gitmo’s prisoners are terrorists. This is a war. They should not be tried in criminal courts, but in military courts. And where will they go? Hopefully, the guilty will not be freed only to kill as many infidel Americans as possible. I am afraid that our safety and security will be greatly compromised. We need to ascertain guilt or innocence and quickly punish the guilty and release the innocent. And I kind of agree with Larry. I think we may be sorry–and we have no good plan.

What a dope. He’s just showin’ his true colors now…

Yeah. So how many are in fact terrorists again? Sure, military tribunals are good for prisoners of war and known terrorists, I don’t disagree with that. What I have a problem is the interrogation and torture of innocent people who are suspected terrorists because they were in the wrong place at the wrong time or however the circumstances were when they were captured…. Is it ok to dehumanize dozens of innocent people if a roughly equal number are brought to justice? Do the ends justify the means? Some people may think so if it keeps us “safer”, but would you say the same thing if you were the one going through that hell? Fortunately, I personally don’t have to make that decision and I don’t envy the people who do…

How many more Americans have to die before the left wing liberals realize the agenda of our enemies. They hate us, they will always hate us and they want us dead. Closing Gitmo is a huge mistake and they will find out but will never admit it. I guess they would rather see dead American women and children in the streets instead of terrorists in a clean prison. They live better in Gitmo than their own countries. They need to stay there.

They get 3 square meals a day in Gitmo and have a good roof over their heads, better than most have ever had. These people have been trained to give their lives to kill even one of us. Now we are considering making it a judge’s decision whether or not to release them? I don’t think so! I wouldn’t want a single one near me or one of my children in the cities they live in.

I respect President Obama’s intelligence, but this display of naivte makes me cringe.
I, too, desire peace, but idealistic acts will not make peace a reality. People such as terrorists aren’t going to see the error of their ways due to some kindness or obedience to civil rights. Far from it! They instead will see this as all the more reason to continue their plans to mass murder.

No,No, No do not close just get on with the trails.

Closing Gitmo is a foolish, foolish move. The precendent set by moving war criminals into the US judicial system will haunt US security for years.

PA, here come the terrorists! Thanks, Jack!

Finally, this will finally put a bottom in housing and stop the endless flood of foreclosures. I see this move as helping the rapidly deteriorating employment situation and deflation of all asset classes.
Tim Geitner is also an excellent choice as head of the Treasury which ultimately oversees the IRS. Put a tax cheat in charge! What an example. Put the bitch Hillary in charge of Secretary of State for all of her campaign support. Leon Panetta is an a superb candidate to head up the CIA with all of his intelligence background. Bama is brilliant, no?

This is irresponsible naivete from an unseasoned president. These people are NOT RATIONAL. They are pledged in Jihad, a Holy War, to KILL US. There are far more critical issues at hand than to spend the first two days creating more committees to reinvent the wheel. Guantanamo is an ideal security place to hold them. They are not entitled to priveliges under law as U.S. citizens and we are gracious by even giving them Geneva convention sanctions since they do not belong to a country that has signed the Geneva Convention. Let’s cut out the code pink grandstanding and get down to business, the Economy and our National Security.

I disagree completely with this decision and feel it will only serve to foster a strong threat to the security of our nation.

I Don’t Agree with closing GitMo. You are not dealing with “Sane, intelligent people”. These detainees are dangerous and are being treated far better than they have ever been in their lives.
This is a foolish decision. Not necessary to spend a year studying the situation with a committee. Just more wasteful spending. They will simply use our legal system with endless delays and more wasted taxpayer money defending them. In the end they will probably be released into Society. Where is the responsibliity? This is NOT a “SANE and INTELLIGENT” DECISION.

Very disappointing move! It demonstrates a lack of understanding of the hearts and minds of terrorists. It is extremely naive to think that a terrorist can be cajolled into giving up vital infomation, much less their hatred and desire to destroy the innocent people of a nation. Has he even been to Gitmo? Personally witness the aftermath of a suicide bomber? Did he see the destruction at Ground Zero in the days following the attack? Humane treatment yes, bring terrorist on American Soil and try them in our already over-burdened court system, No! These people are not American Citizens and are therefore not entitled to the same rights. I hope his advisors will help him reconsider and exercise a more prudent plan.

CLOSE GITMO! A year is too long. Its not only a symbol, it is the result of the corrupt and erroneous notion that by placing this prison on leased territory the government could avoid respecting both the Geneva Convention and US Constitution–Denying rights afforded to soldiers in war and civilians, respectively. The principle of a Guantanamo is extremely scary to any thinking person. It is a gross example of “might makes right” by people who placed themselves above the law.

Don’t you think a plan would be a good idea, before we close Gitmo? Who’s stupid?

A so-called terrorist is a symptom of something more complex. The minutemen were terrorists from King George’s point of view. Obama is the first president to have understood that you must first solve the injustices generously scattered around over decades is you are to ever solve the terrorist problem. Like the atrocities committed daily by Israel towards the Palestinians with US weapons and money.
Then and only then you will defuse the hatred that is felt by many foreigners.
Closing Gitmo is a good first step towards normalizing the relations with many countries that have been trampled by previous administrations by a foolish policy based on religion and oil.

We must not profile. We must protect the civil liberties of terrorist.

Knee jerk actions are always wrong and will have consequences.. When we went to war in Iraq, I felt the consequences were not well thought out and I feel the same way about the swift closing of Guantanamo.
I am sure there are real terrorist, in that camp and they need to be handled correctly. We will see if Obama turns out to be such a hero when these consequences evolve.

Stupidity as reached its fullest potential.

Well said Ken. The people who are for closing it need to be stabbed in the eye with a sharpened comb and paralyzed and have a cross written in their own blood on their chest just like one of the suspected terrorists did to one of our guards. There is nothing we can do or say to get their hatred of non radical muslimism out of them. Now Obama wants to have open dialogue with them and all rogue countries. We should have learned the first time the world trade center was attacked. Too bad Clinton let them do it again and now Obama is setting the stage for a repeat. Our president is a fool!

Look on the bright side. One of the camel jockeys freed by Husain might take a Jet Blue plane in a vertical dive into the white house.
Time to man up Joe Biden!!!
You can just use Husain’s Inaugeration speech.

I can’t believe these people that are acusing the liberals for letting these people go. You are forgetting that YOUR STINKING PRESIDENT STARTED THIS MESS

Ken (above) said it perfectly. We should all be terrified of the message this sends to the people who want YOU and ME dead. They do NOT want to be our friends, no matter how idealistic our President is, and they WILL attack us every chance they get. Closing Guantamano is akin to lying down and waiting for the bully in the schoolyard to beat you up and take your lunch money… only so much worse, in that Americans will die. It’s not a question of if, but when. My, but how we needed to keep someone with experience in that office for a few more years. What a mistake this country has made at this time.

The facts show that you can’t expect these terrorists not to do terror when
released. It is outrageous to think
that terrorists can be rehabilitated.
Look at the record. Over 70 released
are known to have attacked our troops.
A recent report is about one who is not
reinstated as an AlQueda leader in Yemen!
Many of these, their own countries won’t take back. How do you expect our
courts to find a place for them?
Milton Thrasher
Sarasota, FL

Hope, it’s the only one terrible, bloody mistake Mr. Obama is going to do.
Or, may be he’ll see statistics of Mr. Thrasher, analyse his own and find better solution.
That’s why he is a president to be smarter than we’re.

Do not agree. His experience as Commander in Chief is two days!

This really makes economic sense in this crisis, doesn’t it?? Lets build or alter another facility on the mainland at a few million $$$$ to incarcerate these enemies so they have equal rights and another opportunity to become free to threaten us further. Lets get real!! This is a very ill advised decision economically and strategically. If we want to end torture well and good do it but keep the terrorists confined in place at GITMO that has been built and instituted for their safe keeping and human treatment.

If these detainees were guilty, why weren’t they tried in court–what’s taking so long? If they are guilty and they get away with crimes against the USA, then they will just go home heroes! And this will not be the last time we hear about them.

shasta sez: “Our president is a fool!”
takes one to know one, shasta …

To those who support the closing of Gitmo. May the terrorists pick your city, town or neighborhood to visit.

I would like to see the prisoners moved into the White House. If the President wants them to be released from Gitmo, He should have to keep a eye on them. That’s right Mr. President You release them, You watch them… Don’t just put it off on someone else….

BIG MISTAKE! HUGE MISTAKE!
This is NOT the way to start off a new term in office.
So we put the “prisoners” in our military prisons and they set about converting other prisoners to their way of thinking?
What does President Obama think is going to happen here?
Gitmo may not have been the perfect way to handle suspected terrorists, but it was NOT on U.S. soil- or the mainland.
Did we not learn anything from 9/11!
Most of thes people want to kill Americans just because we are Americans.

I strongly agree with president Obama’s decision in closing Guantanamo. There are a huge number of innocent people are held but they are not actually terrorist. They were simply in the wrong place at the wrong time.Even after being cleared of wrongdoing, the U.S. continues to hold some of them indefinitely. We should use the money spent their to secure our country and our boarders.

http://abcnews.go.com/Video/playerIndex?id=6720049

BAD move unless there is a super secure island somewhere off the coast. Some of the released prisoners have already gone back to their craft in a big way. It’s obvious they will not be successful in rehabilitating them!

Reckless disregard for the safety of our country. If we have another attact then it will be directly the fault of Obama. His oath said that he is to protect our contry not destroy it.

As an Independent voter who voted for Obama I think its a Bad idea. Coincidently, my vote is considered a “swing” vote as well as moderates and conservatives who voted for him in key states(you can look it up). Hmm so what’s next? Are we going to set them free? Is Obama going to dismantle Homeland security as well? As bad as Bush seem to many remember this, AFTER 9/11 we NEVER were attacked again. If we have another 9/11 on American soil, you can bet the ranch that the moderate and some of the conservative votes who voted for Obama WON’T vote for him in 2012.It’s in the Dems best interest to make sure ou country is safe OTHERWISE Obama will be a ONE-TERM President and the Republicans will retake the White house in 2012(to the horrors of many Dem. voters)Lets be smart here, torture is wrong we all know this but setting them free is worst. Another thing to remember is that these so called “patriots”(as viewed by the Liberals) have blood on their hands. They shot and killed our boys(Americans) and are combatants on the field caught red-handed and others were caught in terroist plots. The problem is that most Americans don’t follow the news and are more caught up in STUPID trivial things like what Britney wore to a nightclub or what Angelina and Brad said about Jennifer(blah,blah,blah),or what was downloaded in their ipods. with that being said I can understand that the idiots who whip up a frenzy to the uninformed with propaganda. I just hope President Obama does the right thing and not let release these terroist or he won’t win in 2012.