Guantanamo Detainees to US

The best way to eliminate terrorism is to downsize poverty. If people are happy with their lives, devoid of want and scarcity, then they’re less likely to feel oppressed, and the vocal minority that advocates violent tactics will fall out of favor.
The Borgen Project (www.borgenproject.org) has some interesting insight into addressing the issues of global poverty, something we can remedy easily and sustainably.
Some interesting figures to ponder:
$30 billion USD: The annual shortfall to end global poverty.
$550 billion USD: The annual US defense budget.

If they are terrorists why they will be released without a proper trial and if they are not why they are detained?

arlene, if you think the missing language in the first oath of office might not have been an “oversight” why don’t you contact the the head justice of the Supreme Court? After all, he was the one who administered the oath and left out part of the oath since he didin’t want to read it.

i hope every single memo on the okay for the release of gitmo detainees into the united states are preserved because i’m sure the next administration is going to want to prosecute the lawyers and politicians who okayed this cockamamie idea!

Hey John Lilly,
If poverty can be eradicated easily, then why does it still persist? Is it your contention that there has been no effort to combat poverty? Give me a break, and keep the blood pouring from your heart away from me.
The continent of Africa has been given aid and money to the tune of billions of dollars for three decades, and it’s still a hell hole.
Read a book entitled ‘Dead Aid’. We could give $30 Billion every year towards poverty, which would make up the ‘shortfall’, and global poverty would persist.
The defense of the United States is more important than giving money to countries who should learn to feed them damn selves anyway.
Poverty is a condition which US money can only do so much about. How much money has been pumped into Africa over the last three decades, and yet poverty, disease and corruption are at an alltime high.
So when i see your ‘statistics to ponder’, I can only say… Thank God those ratios are the way they are.
Plus, your comment that terrorism can be stopped if you take people out of poverty is a joke. Osama Bin Laden has millions of dollars, but that didn’t seem to stop him, did it? You show a fundamental misunderstanding of the threat we face. Terrorists can’t be bought, for they are on a jihad for their Lord. How come you don’t get that? Maybe you should pull your head from the President’s ass so you can see more clearly.
You comments are pathetic and moronic, and that is me being nice.

Poverty causes terrorism? Naive.

Chris, Your comments are pathetic and moronic, and that is me being nice.

I thought that most of the 19 hijackers on 9/11 were fairly well educated and came from middle class families?

These two creeps are Chinese? SEND THEM BACK TO CHINA!!!!! We don’t need more of their crap here!
This administration is incredible. I become more and more nauseated with each news story I read. It’s too bad we can’t rerun the election, knowing what we know now. More of the Dems would have been kicked out.

Reading these comments makes me wonder about my fellow Americans. None of you seem to understand who these Uighurs are. Nor do you read very well. The haven’t been released anywhere yet. Considering the Pentagon determined that all except 1 should have been released in 2003, it is amazing they are still there. In one case the person was just looking for his brother in Afghanistan. I would hate to think that they just sat there for 7 years because the Bush administration didn’t want to admit they made mistakes.

This is change you voted for.
You voted for Napalitano as homeland security director.
Napalitano cancelled an immigration raid where hundreds of illegals are working at a plant that supplies the military.
You voted for releasing old photos to please the ACLU and Obama would have released tapes if they hadn’t been destroyed.
You voted for the most liberal senator ever.
And democracy is over in this country.
With the media and illegal immigration we are now a one party system.
Democrats are guaranteed to win forever because of the demographic changes because of illegal immigration.
Obama and Napalitano have refused to send national guard to the border.
You voted for change alright. You voted to make american policies to the far left.

GEORGE – how can you CALL yourself a honest reporter and an AMERICAN?. HOW CAN YOU SUPPORT BO AND ALL FOR WHAT HE STANDS for and say you are an AMERICAN? MR. BO is an illegal alien BUT that you DO NOT report. He’s never shown a legal long vault birth certificate to prove he was born in the US…’cause he was born in Kenya! Why don’t you tell both sides of the story? The truth!!!!! once and for all. The world and the USA should know the real Obama. He is not eligible to be our prez. Tell that to the world! Why don’t you report that?!

Linda, i guess the birth certificate that President Obama has provided to numerous news outlets and internet fact check sites (factcheck.org for example) is a fake?

Good Lord Obama is more concerned about placating some radical left loons on the web and of the media (Stephenapolus?) than protecting our national security.
Wait, sorry, I made a mistake. It’s not because he’s pressured from the socialist left, it’s that he is one himself.
Well, at least he’ll soon end the income gaps — because we’ll all be poor in the new Gov’t controlled socialist nation of America. But as if that wasn’t enough, he’s inviting terrorists over for a vacation!?
Goodbye America, it was nice knowing you!

Republicans are ready to pounce. These poor Uighars have done nothing. They’re not members of Al Quaeda, they’re not planning attacks on the US, a mass of courts have ordered their release, so why are they being held. The Republican party that never stops talking about freedom and human right. The Republican party in reality the party of torture and secret prisons.

There are 97 Yemenis in Gitmo that Yemen may not take back. Most of the detainees left in Gitmo are dangerous criminals who would slit the throats of 100 American school children a day if they could. The countries where they previously lived do not want them.
I would think that a smart community organizer would look into where these people are going to go before giving in to Moveon and George Soros and proudly announcing that he was going to close Gitmo.
Isn’t Sidwell Friends School in the suburbs of Washington DC? Lets put the detainees in there as teachers if they are qualified. The poor innocent downtrodden detainees probably won’t be any more anti-American than the Sunday School teachers Obama’s daughters had for most of their lives.
Where can we bet on whether Gitmo is still open next year?

Why the hell are we letting them loose in Virginia?! At least, send them back to their own country, and they can be China’s problem. This is why people still want the right to bear arms.

John Lilly, I really hope that was satire but I’m not so sure.
$30 billion a year to end global poverty! Of course, it’s all so obvious now! Let’s see, 6 billion people on earth, for the sake of argument we’ll say 3 billion of them are living on under 2 dollars a day. So sure, if we give each one of those 3 billion an extra 10 bucks a year, that should do it.
The terms leftist and mathematician will never be confused.

Hello Chris,
> Hey John Lilly,
> If poverty can be eradicated easily,
> then why does it still persist?
Because many powerful people and corporations consider it in their interest to preserve poverty to take advantage of lower wages, extract resources for low prices, and then be given government contracts for aid to poor countries on top of it.
So, the veracity of John Lilly’s claims aside, I believe your assumption that everybody actually WANTS to eliminate poverty is a fallacy.

Are they being given special US citizenships?