The Gitmo Dilemma

Despite the plans of President Obama and his cabinet, the plans of closing Guantanamo Bay detention facility is not likely going to be completed by his self imposed deadline of January. The administration is preparing to tackle the oncoming legal issues that are pertaining to the movement of the more than 220 inmates. Guantanamo was created after by former President Bush, after the 9/11 terror attacks, and his home to many Al-Qaeda and Taliban members captured in Afghanistan and Iraq. The biggest hurdle Mr. Obama faces, is the relocation of many inmates. Countries are not chomping at the bit to take in these dangerous individuals despite the amount of money we are offering to contain them. They do not belong in the United States regardless, if the facility has to remain open so be it. Would you want one of the inmates housed in your backyard? I don't believe you would, I know I sure wouldn't. So as this to continues to unfold, if there aren't any countries willing the take the remaining inmates to be released, I can't see the facility closing anytime in the near future. politicalpluralism.com

Holy Cow please forgive my spelling in my previous comment. I can't read what I am typing as it is too light.
I really can spell better then it looks!!!
Yikes

I am going to try to put ths in a nut she;;/ It is unAmerican to tortue someone. It is against all of our good, humain principles. There has been talk of puting the worst of the worst in a miliitary prison such as at Fort Leavenworth. My thoughts......go ahead, just make sure they are in general population with other sociopathic prisoners; ones like them. I think our American prisioners would be the best ones to get informtion from the people who have orchestrated the deaths of thousands of innocent American. They are, in a way, their peers. Our government would simply be locking up people who have offenced our social sturcture by murdering people. Then, with a "don't ask, don't tell" program that our military already believes in, we can just let the balls, I mean chips, fall where they may. I say this because I believe that smacking or hitting a child is wrong, wrong, wrong, but I also believe that a child, at times, needs a good smack on the behind to get his/her attention when it is an important matter. Nothing will be gained by talking with these died in the wool terroists. These kinds of people need to get what they give. Leave our "military" out of it. Even though Leavenworth is a federal prision, there are plenty of plain ol' American nut cases in there too. If the fact that it is a federal prision, go ahead and put them in any worst of the worst prisons with the worst of the worst sociopaths. Just don't tell anyone why. There is a time for talking and a time for TALKING. Then there is a time for action.

Obama could do good things for our country financially, but so could have McCain!!! The financial problems in our country were known and whoever took office would have to make changes and work on fixing them regardless. However, you can't lose site of the major problems elsewhere in the world and our vulnerability to them. Enhanced interogation techniques are necesary in this war. You can't take people who are willing to slowly decapitate captured soldiers with a rusty saw on live video, and threaten them with American civility, slap him on the wrist, and think we've solved the problem. So many Americans are very naive about this war and the problems around the world people face with genocide, torchure, and rape. Americans are able to have great lives, hopes, and dreams here because our government recognizes that controversial and sometimes terrible things are often necessary to protect our way of life. People are forgetting that our enemies are willing to sacrifice their lives to prove a religious point...do they really think we can get the answers we need to win this war by simply demanding the truth from them?? As long as the public doesn't know or hear about interrogation acts, they don't care because they still have their happy rights and wonderful lives. I'm sure not one American would say they'd give up what they have here for some accused terrorist to be treated nicely after hearing the details of the accusations. The "Enhanced Interrogation" techniques are used very rarely and responsibly on those who have been positively identified and monitored doing some terroristic action. Someone that would be of use for information...not just some low level nobody we're going torchure for the hell of it. People need to wake up.... start being thankful for what they have in comparison to the the rest of the world, and stop bitching about the very things that have been protecting them from another 9/11 for the past 7 years.

I'm not againist Obama in general....I think he will do great things for our country. But on this issue, he's being too "happy go lucky." Of those hardened group of detainees, who says we should treat them kindly? They want to do us harm!! If we treat them kindly and release them to their countries, do you think those maniacs will forget their agenda? Yemen will not help us.....as the article states, they don't have the resources. Even if the Yemeni government likes Obama.... Plus, we need harsh interogation techniques....even if we use it as a pschological deterrent to have those suspects talk.

By closing Gitmo, Obama is playing with fire, and it may back-fire....those detanees will come back and attack us. And it could be worse than 9/11. May God protect us from that.

Obama is too late to the fight. According to Article 22 of the Iraq Security Agreement, all detainees in Iraq and other various overseas facilities were due to start transferring on January 1st. Detainees started leaving that night, at 1201. This Security Agreement was hammered out under the Bush Administration and the last Congress. By extension, Guantanamo was already on a slow slide to closing. The American public needs to be informed about the spin the press and the new administration put on this information. The DoD already knew about all of the problems with detainees during this war, and was taking care of business.

Obama is too late to the fight. According to Article 22 of the Iraq Security Agreement, all detainees in Iraq and other various overseas facilities were due to start transferring on January 1st. Detainees started leaving that night, at 1201. This Security Agreement was hammered out under the Bush Administration and the last Congress. By extension, Guantanamo was already on a slow slide to closing. The American public needs to be informed about the spin the press and the new administration put on this information. The DoD already knew about all of the problems with detainees during this war, and was taking care of business.

Obama is :Typical Liberal.....going to a gunfight with a knife... how long will we be at risk until he :gets it"

There' are several available rooms at the Whitehouse.

Obama has shown his lack of understanding the real world.he faces. He is naive is typical of the liberal mind. Emotional and puerile. How about putting those murderous thugs in his home along Peloise and Reid. Oh! Especially, Jack Murtha!

Sorry Dan. FAIL. http://blogs.usatoday.com/ondeadline/2009/01/ap-obama-exec-o.html?csp=34

Liberals and Europeans have ridiculed Gitmo for years because it doesn't fit their pacifist human rights agenda. This article exposes the genius of the decision to house detainees there. The charge that Gitmo is unconstitutional is as absurd as it is common amongst the ranks of the Left. Where does the Constitution say anything about the rights of foreign militants captured in war zones overseas? Obama would be an idiot to close Gitmo. The symbolic importance of such a move for the Democratic party would be overshadowed by the blood on Obama's hands when those militants are released into the world again.

Liberals and Europeans have ridiculed Bush for his decision to house detainees at Gitmo because it didn't mesh with their pacifist human rights agendas. However, this article brings to light the genius of the decision. Foreign terrorists of the radical Islamic type present an entirely new challenge for our legal system. The banter that Gitmo is unconstitutional is as absurd as it is common, esp. among the ranks of the Left. What does the Constitution say about the rights of non-U.S. militants captured in a foreign war zone? Obama would be an idiot to shut down Gitmo. Such a move might be symbolically important for a vocal minority in this country, but it will most likely end with blood on Obama's hands.

Sorry, check projectcensored.org instead.

As a pro-America (as in anti-Soviet) European I truly did not expect USA to turn into the Empire from Star Wars. Torture, spying on own countrymen, killing 300 iraqi civilian per day (estimated by respected scholars, check projectcensored.com), etc. If Obama renegades on this his most important promis I fear all hope is lost, <ironic> at least he should ship the prisoners to covert prisons in E-Europe or Malaysia or wherever for appearances sake! </ironic>

Forget Bagram. There a highly secure U.S. facility on U.S. soil that is currently being underlutilized -- and the most secure l;ocation where the remaining 250 Guantanamo detainees can be placed, pending trials.

That place is Supermax -- the super-maximum-security federal prison at Florence, Colorado, where such inmates as Unabomber Ted Kacyzinski, Oklahoma City co-conspirator Terry Nichols, "shoe Bomber" Richard Reid, Atlanta Olympics bomber Eric Rudolph and 1993 World Trade Center bombing mastermind Ramzi Yousef are spending the rest of their lives.

the US has been walking over civil rights for many years now with such places as gitmo and bagram. there is also the question of covert flights throughout eyrope by the CIA. if America wants to truely be the largest democracy in the world, its about time it started acting like it.