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.
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Or manager of the Ron Paul campaign.
Okay, shut it down, do not bring them back here, let them go.
The US has not the leadership or gumption left to fight and win.
Save us, at least, having to pay for trials and the fear of having these animals in our midst.
One has to admit, this has been a PR victory for the the bleeding heart MSM and their European allies.
Wow , I am surprised. This makes Huckabee look good.
That’s right, let US policy be dictated by that tiny sliver of the world’s population represented by the Socialist/gay media.
Brilliant leadership.
Duncan Hunter on GITMO 03-09-2007:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8pfuOfub9B0
Mark Levin on GITMO 09-06-2007
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U7WauKSEDrg
Duncan Hunter GITMO Tribunals 06-26-2007
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xIeBqIMm1s4
You got that right.
Wrong. It makes Mullen look bad.
Bringing them to the US does not mean they will have any more rights than they do at Gitmo. Gitmo is US soil and US laws apply there just as much as they would at a military base here. The Supreme Court already ruled that Gitmo detainees are protected by the Geneva Convention despite not being real soldiers or representing any signatory to the convention. Keeping detainees in Gitmo does not in any way keep them out of the reach of the US legal system, and bringing them here does not mean they would get trials. Therefore Gitmo serves no real purpose. It’s purely symbolic.
Huckabee looks worse every day.
With this kind of PC thinking coming from the top, our goose is cooked in this war.
Cooked.
How about the Admiral pay attention to Naval matters and let the elected officials sort out the Nation’s “image”?
Bring back a real officer: General Peter Pace, USMC. Pitch that swab jockey off the poop-deck.
They ought to be making the place bigger.
So Adm. Mike Mullen is a Huckabee man. LOL
Its' placement makes rescue attempts very hard.
Adm. Mullen is a desk jockey.
He’s not a field commander.
Uh, did it ever occur to you that many of us DO NOT want battlefield terrorists brought on to US soil?
Bet you do not even care.
Elect MIkey. He will set them free and probably give them amnesty to boot!
You make me sick. Go join the Democrats.
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