Comments on: Guantanamo Review in Full Swing: Attorney General to Visit Facility Next Week

By: RR GOP

RR GOP — Sun, 22 Feb 2009 02:32:59 +0000

Maybe one of the poor, pitiful, inmates there who are being tortured and treated unfairly will ‘gas’ this guy when he visits them like they do Marine guards there…maybe then he might change his position on the matter?
I, for one, would actually applaud the SOBs in this one case.

By: RR GOP

RR GOP — Sun, 22 Feb 2009 02:24:24 +0000

“If we torture and jail someone unjustly, why wouldn’t it be appropiate for another country to do the same to ours. We can’t start that!”
You’re kidding…right?
These terrorists don’t represent another “country”. They are like the Mafia, only beholden to themselves and independent of national borders. They do not wear the uniform of any nation. They are not under the control of any political or military structure except their own.
They routinely kill and torture those who come into their possession. If they are nice, they hold them hostage to get their own freed from prison.

By: NPage

NPage — Thu, 19 Feb 2009 19:28:51 +0000

The visit by the Attorney General makes no sense in the broader context of moving forward with the decisions Obama has made. The only reason the Attorney General would visit Gitmo is to determine what avenue will be taken when former officials are prosecuted. With BO, it’s all about undoing Bush. This is but one more evidence of that fact. Obama is a sophomore, trying to make it with the “in” crowd by tearing down last year’s quarterback.
On the other hand, there is a chance that Barack Obama has no clue what he’s doing and severely lacks the ability to discern the impact his actions will have on his cabinet and his country. That is the more frightening of the two scenarios and could very well be the truth. So far BO’s not doing so well. His approval ratings have plummeted and Wall Street (translate – normal everyday Americans’ retirement accounts) is faltering with every word he utters on the economy. He has to travel the country now to get the support of the uneducated masses he despised in the election process. Not to mention he can’t even get all of his cabinet positions filled because of corruption and rigid partisanship. His folks are even stirring up racial tensions, causing those who haven’t had a racist bone in their body to be concerned with the rhetoric coming out of the Obama White House.
If AG Holder isn’t scoping out possible prosecution scenarios, then AG Holder’s visit is evidence that Obama is foundering.

By: matt

matt — Wed, 18 Feb 2009 20:59:40 +0000

Why tour the thing if the administration just wants it shut down no matter what? Is this just a PR stunt?

By: sngeorgia

sngeorgia — Wed, 18 Feb 2009 20:54:26 +0000

DanKidd……..
This isn’t about Morals. It’s about a treaty the U.S. entered. If we torture and jail someone unjustly, why wouldn’t it be appropiate for another country to do the same to ours. We can’t start that!

By: sngeorgia

sngeorgia — Wed, 18 Feb 2009 20:47:42 +0000

Put all the detainees in Alcatraz, and use Guantanamo for the executive branch of Bush, Cheney and Wall Street thieves as holding cells, while we torture them, including taking all their clothes away to find out why our country is in financial ruins!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!.

By: Dan Kidd

Dan Kidd — Wed, 18 Feb 2009 20:32:22 +0000

It seems our government is more intent on closing our Gitmo and letting terrorists go than closing the 35 terrorist training camps in our own country and deporting those in them.
What is this country coming to when our own constitution and state laws protect these camps and we feel that Gitmo is a moral issue when we are at war.

By: jhw539

jhw539 — Wed, 18 Feb 2009 20:17:06 +0000

jimbob: ” Don’t get me wrong, I think our judicial system is the best in the world; however, it was NOT set up to protect state secrets”
You are woefully mistaken. There are several courts set up explicitly to protect state secrets and Congress has the Constitutional authority to set up whatever court in whatever form they see fit. The Constitution is far more flexible than you seem to think, but it does require that checks and balances be observed. If the Executive branch and Congress agree, they can do almost anything (and that is as intended).

By: William J. LePetomane

William J. LePetomane — Wed, 18 Feb 2009 20:10:03 +0000

jimbob, would you like to make a wager on that? Gitmo WILL be closed as a part of the return to the rule of law in our country. Undoing the ruinous policies of the lawless Bush administration.

By: jimbob

jimbob — Wed, 18 Feb 2009 19:15:08 +0000

@ jhw539
Or “The One” will NOT close this prison because he knows it will be political suicide to let some of these monsters loose on our judicial system. Don’t get me wrong, I think our judicial system is the best in the world; however, it was NOT set up to protect state secrets (i.e. how we found these monsters, technology used, witnesses/sources). All of these things would be asked for by the ACLU (who would be defending these terrorists). When the government is unwilling to provide these valuable state secrets, the defense will claim that as lack of evidence.
Just another way “The One” is ruining our country.