Germany's Merkel says Guantanamo should be shut

Reuters ^ | January 7, 2006 | Karin Strohecker

[MARKUSPRIME]

Umm how should we deal with them then? Imprison them in our prisons on the mainland and let them out after a few years like the germans? Sorry, these guys are terrorist and deserve either isolation as an "enemy combatant" designation or death. These people are not part of a nations army or a uniformed combatant, and they arent covered by the geneva convention. It irritates me to no end that we have to fight terrorist already with one hand tied behind our back, all the while our so called allies take digs at everything we do. We will do what we must and europe can bitch endlessly.

[Travis McGee]

We know how she deals with captive terrorists.
She trades them for German hostages.

[1rudeboy]

Let's see: we have the Leftist press in the U.S. (that is obsessed with foreign opinion--as is their "base"), selectively quoting the Leftist press in Germany, that is reporting that the German Chancellor (who recently defeated a Leftist hero), answered some unknown question about Gitmo in a relatively unconfrontational manner. And we conservatives, who under normal circumstances question everything the Leftist press in the U.S. does, devour it like dogs with meat.

If I was the Reuters reporter that wrote this story and saw this thread, I'd be laughing my a++ off.

[mewzilla]

Why shouldn´t she say that?

Because it's a bloody stupid thing to say. BTW, Michael, they're enemy non-combatants and as such are not covered by the Geneva Convention.

[Michael81Dus]

You´re all taking her words too important. What´s the fuss about? Is she deciding about the closing of Guantanamo? No. Has Bush never given "chill pills" to you or to fellow-citizens (such as Muslims, when he referred to the "religion of peace")??

[mewzilla]

You´re all taking her words too important.

She's your head of state, Michael.

[MarkL]

Cool! Ship them all to Germany!

Mark

[rrrod]

Germany isnt important enough to have an opinion on anything.

[Michael81Dus]

I know that they´re not protected by the GC IV. And I would have said that Camp Gitmo is America´s problem. But I understand and share the concerns about this camp. Not all inmates there were captured on the battlefield, and those should be brought to a judge. After all, we shall not give up what makes our societies just and modern.

[Michael81Dus]

LOL, your comments are continously funny. I pray for you.

[vbmoneyspender]

Do you think were at war with Al Qaeda? If you do, can you name another war where POWs let alone enemy-combatants were "judged" while the war was still going on?

[Semper Paratus]

And Germany's contribution to the WOT is Zilch.

[Michael81Dus]

And am I taking her words too important? Definitely not, because I know how politics work.

[mewzilla]

Not all inmates there were captured on the battlefield, and those should be brought to a judge..

Which part of the term enemy non-combatant did you not understand?

And, BTW, just where do you think the battlefield in the WOT is, Michael?

[Michael81Dus]

Actually, she´s only my head of government. Head of state is Federal President Prof. Dr. Horst Köhler, former chief of the IMF.

[mewzilla]

Actually, she´s only my head of government

And not terribly important apparently.

[Michael81Dus]

Yeah, you´re damn-d right, Sir!! I´m reading the comments with increasing fun, too.

[muawiyah]

Top level Germans are all the time trying to make nicey-nicey with Castro so they can keep those cheap vacation spot hotel rates on the best beaches.

There's nothing more to it than that.

[Tennessean4Bush]

Let's send Merkel a Club Gitmo tee shirt.

[Michael81Dus]

The battlefield in the WOT is everywhere. People have reportedly been "kidnapped" from Macedonia and brought to Guantanamo.