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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It couldn't possibly be his professional opinion based upon a career spent trying to defend this country, could it?
I agree with him. The prisoners should be moved to a much more humane location-—the beautiful, pristine area of ANWR!!!!!
Do you have a point?
The Jihadi’s never seem to worry about their IMAGE of TERROR. The DC tap water is being spiked with Estrogen.
Bush and Gates have been saying that they would like to shut it down. The devil is in the details. We can’t and shouldn’t shut it down. I am sure that Mullen believes he is stating the administrations position on Gitmo, i.e., we would love to shut it down but the issue is very complex. When you repeat what the CIC says, I don’t see how you can blame Mullen.
Send them to Egypt - they do not deserve to be on American soil.
Gitmo is no “fraud”. It is a place where the worst examples of human debris are kept out of the pathetic U.S. judicial system. The SCOTUS has no authority here despite their verdict. I say force a Constitutional crisis. Let’s see if the people stand behind the liberals of the SCOTUS on this one.
JCS speaking out on policy? That crosses a line.
barryg wrote:
“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.”
Here’s a few:
http://uboat.net/men/pow/pow_in_america_stats.htm
My son and I visited the ruins of one along the Appalachian trail this year in Pennsylvania. It was known as Camp Michaux and you can still see the graffiti left behind by the prisoners today.
Wrong! They ruled that Gitmo IS INSIDE the territorial jurisdiction of the US. They are right! Gitmo is NOT outside of the reach of the Supreme Court and liberals on the court have already conferred all kinds of rights on the detainees there! You can say otherwise until you are blue in the face but the law and the Supreme Court of the US disagree with you!
Read this story from the BBC US President George W Bush has said he would like to close the US prison camp at Guantanamo Bay and send many detainees back to their home countries.
See my post #111. Bush wants to close Gitmo.
Ummmm .... no, they are not.
All U.S. WARSHIPS are U.S. soil no matter where they may be floating.
The soil of a leased military base, like any any rented real estate, belongs to person receiving the rent check and not the person writing the rent check.
This decision has no standing. Congress revised the laws as a result of this. Federal courts have no jurisdiction over habeas corpus of the Gitmo detainees. Judge Kennedy also tried to assert that Gitmo is US territory but considering the terminology of the lease, his opinion has no standing.
Scalia is explaining why the liberals in Rasul were FOS. You support the liberals. Follow that to it's logical conclusion.
If we cxlose it down...then do not let them go. Do what we are allowed under the Geneva Convenrtion for any of the detainees who are enemy combatants captured on the battlefield with no uniform and fighting under no orgainzed army...execute them, every single one of them.
I would seem Tlaloc know’s more than any other person.
Facts don’t matter to them, they create their own.
Happens to be a Huckaproblem.
They are NOT POWs, by any definition. They do not have the rights POWs have. They are no better than the murderers and saboteurs in the second world war. When they were caught, they were shot. No tears were shed, no cries of abuse. They should be tried by military tribunal the same as some german sabotuers were tried during WWII. If found guilty, they should be executed. No attorneys, no appeals. Close Gitmo when they are all either found guilty and executed, or not guilty and released.
With the wimpy status of US politics, they should have done that in the first place.
Heaven help us, it seems we have no stomach to stand up for ourselves.
Very sad.
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2006/07/11/AR2006071100455.html
The fact is that Gitmo IS within the territorial jurisdiction of US courts, and the President must obey their decisions, as he has! He has not kept these detainees from being protected by the Supreme Court, and he cannot!
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