Posted on 11/10/2008 11:16:13 AM PST by pissant
WASHINGTON (AP) - Word that President-elect Obama's advisers are working on a proposal to close the prison at Guantanamo Bay and ship at least some terror suspects to the U.S. for trial is already generating skepticism.
As a candidate, Obama called Guantanamo a "sad chapter in American history," and he has said the U.S. legal system is equipped to handle the detainees. Under discussion is a plan to release some of them, and prosecute others in criminal courts. But a third group whose cases involve a lot of highly classified information might require the creation of a new court designed to handle sensitive national security matters.
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Is Obama a naural born U.S. Citizen?
If Obama governs by polls, maybe we can keep him in check. Otherwise we will move left of left.
Who knows. Regardless, he is a marxist quisling.
Are any of Shaft’s relatives in GITMO?
Well, considering everyone who he has ever been close to is an enemy combatant, it is likely.
No American citizen has standing to ask, and will
be sent to a ‘re-education camp’ for daring to ask.
This sad chapter is beginning soon . . .
“...sad chapter in American history.” Good Lord, what eloquence.
Release them all in Washington, DC. Maybe some of them can have “coffee an” with the infidels living down Clinton’s street. Oh, and let the government pay for high priced lawyers from some of the massive bailout money. Lawyers need a bailout too. </s>
This is one of those “war against terror” moves that I have considered to be an utter disaster. I’ve presided over thousands of criminal trials. Try them and punish them and regain the moral high ground. If we believe in the rule of law and this Great Nation then that is what we should do.
The odds of Guantanamo having provided us any intelligence, or much of anything else, for that matter are slim.
I’ve also provided over trials where witnesses were “persuaded” with enhanced interrogation. You get bad information that way.
The system works. It was the rare case that got dismissed on a technicality.
“Obama plans Guantanamo closure, US terror trials”
...gotta get his buddies out of there for cabinet positions.
Ship ‘em to K Street for the trials...they could house them in the Howard Johnson across the street from the Watergate...
All brought to you by the man who claimed not to be a muzzie terrorist himself.
The moral highground in war is to give them the type of hearings we are giving them. A military tribunal. Not enough evidence, send them back if you their homeland will take them. If not, keep them locked up. If guilty, shoot them.
Ping.
Here we go...get ready for the same garbage we saw with the Zacarias Moussaoui jury and the “he was an abused child and the victim of racism” garbage.
Didn’t McCain want to close Gitmo too? It’s all just to make Bush look bad. Liberals coddle terrorists.
And that is the beginning of the end for any empire. While satisfying in a revenge kind of way, it spells death for a society.
The system works and it works well. Try em, convict em, and lock them away.
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