[Tlaloc]

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.

[razorback-bert]

Therefore Gitmo serves no real purpose.

Its' placement makes rescue attempts very hard.

[dforest]

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.

[Soliton]

Gitmo is US soil

no it is leased from cuba

[NoobRep]

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.

[kabar]

You are wrong. Gitmo is not US soil. Once they are in the US, they will have additional rights under the Constitution.

[Polybius]

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.

I was stationed at GTMO for one year.

U.S. Naval Base, Guantanamo Bay, Cuba is Cuban soil that, by a 1903 treaty that was renegotiated in 1934, is leased to the U.S. until .... here is the kicker .... BOTH sides agree to end the lease.

Castro wants to end the lease. The U.S. does not. Since both sides do not agree on canceling the lease, the lease is still in effect. Every year, the U.S. sends Castro a check for the lease payment. Each year, Castro symbolically refuses to cash it.

Under U.S. law, any Cuban rafter that makes it all the way to U.S. soil and is not intercepted at sea is given political asylum. (The "Wet Foot-Dry Foot" law). During the Clinton Administration, when Cuban rafters were intercepted at sea in large numbers, they were detained at GTMO until Cuba took them back.

Why GTMO?

Because GTMO is, legally, Cuban soil and therefore did not fulfil the legal requirement of "setting foot on U.S. soil" of the "Wet Foot-Dry Foot" law.

[hdstmf]

It doesn’t matter where we put the terrorist. The demorats want be satisfied.

[hdstmf]

It doesn’t matter where we put the terrorist. The demorats want be satisfied.

[cake_crumb]

Gitmo isn’t really on US Soil. We lease 45 square miles of land from Cuba. It serves more than a symbolic purpose: it keeps them OUT of our country, which they want to destroy, limits - believe it or not, it really, physically does limit - the media’s ability to make the usual circus out of it and it’s hard to escape from an Island. Ask the people of Cuba.

[massgopguy]

Gitmo is actually leased land. Should they ever set foot on actual US soil, they can claim Refugee Status and collect welfare after being released.

[mjaneangels@aolcom]

“Bringing them to the US does not mean they will have any more rights than they do at Gitmo.”

Did you hear that everyone? Tlaloc is volunteering to keep all those prisoners who are at Gitmo on his/her property.