Innocent detainees need a home

The Boston Globe ^ | April 2, 2009 | Bill Delahunt and Sabin Willett

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ONE OF THE most pressing issues the Obama administration will face when it closes the Guantanamo detention center is what to do with the 63 detainees cleared for release or transfer who cannot return home.

These men will require assistance from friendly democracies. Undoubtedly, a number of foreign nations will demand that some of these innocent detainees be resettled in the United States before they act similarly.

Seventeen Uighurs are entering their eighth year of imprisonment at Guantanamo.

The only realistic option is for the Uighurs to be resettled in the United States. There is no evidence the Uighurs plotted against the United States or were our enemies. The Uighur detainees have endured enough. It is time to make the situation right.

This solution, which has garnered bipartisan support, would represent a clear break from the past. We should seize this moment to lead by example once again by assisting current resettlement efforts. Many allies face publics that are skeptical of accepting those who were unfairly labeled as terrorists by our government. Let's face it - if we are unable to even accept and find a home for 17 innocent Uighurs, how can we expect other nations to take any of the Guantanamo detainees cleared for release?

As the United States continues on the difficult path to resettlement, it should bear in mind that sometimes the best way to lead is by setting an example for the world to follow. We feel confident that once the United States has opened its doors to the Uighurs, other members of the world community will join in the effort to resettle the numerous men at Guantanamo who still need a new country to call home.

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I would have blown this off if it was published April 1.

[Cindy]

You can still blow it off — my heart needs a break.

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[bill1952]

These people are f***ing insane!

Dear Lord, there needs to be another revolution, and that soon.

[Shane]

I could not have said it better myself! Do you ever feel like you have fallen down the rabbit hole?

[dead]

There is no evidence the Uighurs plotted against the United States or were our enemies.

I guess our military locked them up for eight years because they bought a Dixie Chick cd or something.

[PeteB570]

So I take it Bill Delahunt is offering to house the folks in question in a home next door to his?

No?

I thought so.

[Doogle]

these “innocents” were associated with AQ, trained and paid by AQ, sworn allegiance to AQ, and escaped into Paki after Tora Bombings....captured and transported.

[DocH]

Where's the BARF ALERT?

They may not have any evidence on these turds, but to say they are innocent and bring them here is assuming too much, and taking a chance most Americans, if asked, would say a flat-out NO to.

[philetus]

I guess our military locked them up for eight years because they bought a Dixie Chick cd or something. “

Oer military is a bunch of paranoid war mongers who suspect innocent people of foul play because they happen to have c4 in their position.They were probably trying to get rid of gophers.

[Malsua]

The only realistic option is for the Uighurs to be resettled in the United States.

Bullshit.

Send them back to whatever mud hut birthed these spawn and forget them. If they pop up in the crosshairs again, blow their damned heads off.

[Loyal Buckeye]

...63 detainees cleared for release or transfer who cannot return home...

And why can't they return home? Inquiring minds want to know.

[KosmicKitty]

Uighurs are chinese

How did they “innocently” end up in the middle east?

[Ax]

One of the authors of this drivel is Bill Delahunt. He was my congresscritter when I lived on Cape Cod. He’s the weasel that got into bed with Hugo Chavez for cheap heating oil for the poor folks in MA.

[OH4life]

The uigers at least will probably get their organs harvested if they get sent back to China

[Toespi]

What does “innocent” mean to a liberal?

[Cindy]

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[Semper Mark]

The Uighurs cannot return home because the ChiComs would kill them...which is precisely what we should do.

What we are seeing now is the reason that you take no prisoners. If those prisoners are eventually liberated by the enemy, they’ll be loosed again on you.

Kill ALL of your enemies, and damn the intelligence gathering.

[thethirddegree]

E-mails, letters and even calling does not seem to matter anymore to the people we elected to represent us in Congress.

Here’s a thought: when Congress was busy huffing and puffing about those evil AIG bonuses, no one gave it a second thought when the thuggish ACORN rent-a-mob went on a bus tour of AIG employees’ homes.

So, what if someone were to create a database containing all the HOME addresses of these professional thieves in Congress (both their D.C. and state home addresses) and distribute it widely across the internet?

A few peaceful public gatherings at their ritzy D.C. townhomes and gated estates might make them think twice as they continue to tax us and our children into a banana republic-style poverty.

[surrey]

This blithering idiot is my Congresscritter.

[Mouton]

I’ve an idea...don’t we have a ship scheduled to become a reef somewhere? Put them onboard and say goodbye.

Or give them the above option or a trip to China. I heard yesterday they would be sentenced to certain death there for their terror actions. We have not done so because we know that to be true. Hello? Anyone listening in DC? If you get rid of a problem, you then have no problem.

Vince