Posted on 06/10/2007 10:23:04 PM PDT by kellynla
Former Secretary of State Colin Powell said Sunday he favors immediately closing the Guantánamo Bay military prison and moving its detainees to U.S. facilities. The prison, which now holds about 385 war-on-terror captives, has tarnished the world's perception of the United States, Powell said.
''If it was up to me, I would close Guantánamo. Not tomorrow, but this afternoon. I'd close it,'' he said.
''And I would not let any of those people go,'' he said. ``I would simply move them to the United States and put them into our federal legal system. The concern was, well then they'll have access to lawyers, then they'll have access to writs of habeas corpus. So what? Let them. Isn't that what our system is all about?''
Defense Secretary Robert Gates has said Congress and the Bush administration should work together to allow imprisonment of some of the more dangerous detainees elsewhere so the military camp at the remote U.S. Navy base in Cuba can be closed.
The Defense Department estimates it would take about three years to conduct 60 to 80 military trials, if the administration authorizes that many.
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and this clown was Secretary of State???
The State Dept. often seems to be a sheltered workshop for clowns.
Unfortunately yes.
Some people just never go away.
How bout we close it and move the guys next door to your house Mr Secretary of State?
If it was up to me ...Dude. It will never again be "up to you." So fade away already. You are so 5 minutes ago. You had your chance to make a difference and you botched it.
Colin Powell, Jimmy Carter, John McCain. Gives me that sinking feeling in the pit of my stomach that I’m really in this by myself.
Not unusual. This is the sort of thing Sec. of States say.
Albright, Warren Christopher, James Baker. ....we've had quite a few embarrassments in modern history.
Colin Powell was a disappointment. He was too soft.
Yeah, there's a great idea - - turn the WOT into a lawyer-infested circus, complete with a clown car packed with scumbag liberal activist judges... .Why won't this moron Powell just fade away like good soldiers do?
How incredibly naive this man is!
He’s turned out to be just another weak d..k. sadly
To close Guantanamo would simply give credence to all the lies about it.
Are you sure it was Colin Powell who said this? This sounds like it could have come from Paris Hilton!
I can’t WAIT for the Hugh Hewitt show Monday. Mark Steyn is going to have so much fun with this, LOL!
Thank God FR does not chose Presidents or he would have been in 2000 when he was the Almighty here.
***’’If it was up to me, I would close Guantánamo. Not tomorrow, but this afternoon. I’d close it,’’ ***
I’d close it also and open one in Point Barrow, Alaska or Little America, Antartica.
“I would simply move them to the United States and put them into our federal legal system.”
No way do I want these people on home soil.
Shut up Powell
This Colin Clown needs to put a clothes pin on that pie hole before he stinks the place up.
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