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Joint Chiefs chairman: close Guantanamo
AP Via Yahoo! News ^ | Jan 13, 2008 | Robert Burns

Posted on 01/13/2008 3:31:02 PM PST by MichMash

GUANTANAMO BAY NAVAL BASE, Cuba - The chief of the U.S. military said Sunday he favors closing the prison here as soon as possible because he believes negative publicity worldwide about treatment of terrorist suspects has been "pretty damaging" to the image of the United States.

"I'd like to see it shut down," Adm. Mike Mullen said in an interview with three reporters who toured the detention center with him on his first visit since becoming chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff last October.

(Excerpt) Read more at news.yahoo.com ...


TOPICS: Breaking News; Cuba; Government; News/Current Events; War on Terror
KEYWORDS: biasmeanslayoffs; bushhassers; gitmo; gramsci; guantanamo; gwot; jointchiefs; liberalmedia; mediabias; mediajihad; mediawar; mikemullen; military; quisling; spartansixdelta; surrender; trysellingthetruth; usmilitary
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To: MichMash

WEINIE!!! Whata WEINIE!!


21 posted on 01/13/2008 3:44:04 PM PST by Ann Archy (Abortion.....The Human Sacrifice to the god of Convenience.)
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To: Tlaloc
Gitmo is US soil

no it is leased from cuba

22 posted on 01/13/2008 3:44:11 PM PST by Soliton (Sarcasm that lacks wit only bores and does not teach. Yawn.)
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To: MichMash

This guy should step down.


23 posted on 01/13/2008 3:44:48 PM PST by wastedyears (This is my BOOMSTICK)
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To: MichMash

If Mullen is calling for his colleagues in Quantanamo to be released, then they should be moved to his home where his family can take care of them. I wonder if Mrs. Mullen knows how to prepare food for their strict religious diet?


24 posted on 01/13/2008 3:44:55 PM PST by leprechaun9
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To: MichMash

This a political decision, not a military decision. He should keep his mouth shut.

As a retired Naval officer, I keep abreast of Navy policies. Mullen decision’s are based on politics and he is not a warrior like the former chairman, Gen. Pace


25 posted on 01/13/2008 3:45:02 PM PST by wfu_deacons
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To: MichMash

Now we have a politically-correct wimp as Chairman of the Joint Chiefs. When does the plague of locusts arrive?


26 posted on 01/13/2008 3:45:45 PM PST by devere
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To: Tlaloc

Dumbocrat lawyers are just waiting for this to happen so they can get access to these poor terrorists who are opressed and tortured by the evil United States. Anyone who says otherwise, is probably too stupid to vote.


27 posted on 01/13/2008 3:46:14 PM PST by NoobRep
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To: devere

Too good, I was wondering the same!


28 posted on 01/13/2008 3:46:41 PM PST by dforest (Duncan Hunter is the best hope we have on both fronts.)
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To: indylindy
Gitmo is US soil. All US military bases are US soil.

When Mike Huckabee is the republican nominee, you are welcome to vote for Hillary. I will be voting Republican.

29 posted on 01/13/2008 3:47:08 PM PST by Tlaloc
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To: Radix
I thought Gitmo was uplifting our credibility to the rest of the world. Guess he lives in a different world than I.

I don't understand why anyone would want their garbage on the livingroom floor instead of the garage or the curb.
30 posted on 01/13/2008 3:47:26 PM PST by BerryDingle (With friends like the media, who needs enemas ?)
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To: Tlaloc

I sure don’t want those bums in American territory. If they can offload them to another country, that would be okay. But where?


31 posted on 01/13/2008 3:48:58 PM PST by barryg
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To: NoobRep

Even in Gitmo they have access to lawyers. Like a said Gitmo serves no real purpose at all.


32 posted on 01/13/2008 3:49:12 PM PST by Tlaloc
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To: Tlaloc
All US military bases are US soil.

That's just plain not true.

33 posted on 01/13/2008 3:50:07 PM PST by xjcsa (Thompson/Romney 2008)
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To: Tlaloc

I will vote for whomever is most fit and trustworthy to be POTUS.

That, my friend would not be Huckybee, Hillary, Obama, McCain, ROOTY etc. Only two. Hunter or Thompson.

By the way, you still make me sick.


34 posted on 01/13/2008 3:50:24 PM PST by dforest (Duncan Hunter is the best hope we have on both fronts.)
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To: barryg

We have secret CIA prisons all over the world. CLUB GITMO is nothing but a show for the media.


35 posted on 01/13/2008 3:50:34 PM PST by Tlaloc
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To: Tlaloc

They don’t have as many legal rights in Gitmo. but the truth is German POWs were kept in the United States during WWII, and weren’t assigned ACLU lawyers.


36 posted on 01/13/2008 3:51:01 PM PST by barryg
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To: Tlaloc
>>>>>Like a said Gitmo serves no real purpose at all.

You belong in the center ring of a circus, NOT on a conservative, pro-war website. You clown!

37 posted on 01/13/2008 3:51:18 PM PST by Reagan Man (FUHGETTABOUTIT Rudy....... Conservatives don't vote for liberals!)
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To: MichMash
The chief of the U.S. military said Sunday he favors closing the prison here as soon as possible because he believes negative publicity worldwide about treatment of terrorist suspects has been "pretty damaging" to the image of the United States.

Close it, but hang 'em all first.

38 posted on 01/13/2008 3:51:20 PM PST by Jim Noble (Trails of trouble, roads of battle, paths of victory we shall walk.)
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To: MichMash

Who authorized the admiral to give an interview, especially one in which he took it upon himself to make such a suggestion? Do officers actually have such freedom in today’s military?
On the other hand he may only be following the wishes of the Commander and Chief.


39 posted on 01/13/2008 3:52:08 PM PST by em2vn
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To: indylindy

Have you had your Metamucil today? just kidding . .


40 posted on 01/13/2008 3:52:20 PM PST by barryg
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