Jan 23 2009
Close Gitmo to Make Americans Less Safe!
We are now far less safer than we were five days ago. Yesterday President Obama took dramatic steps, he executed executive orders to close Guantanamo Bay, Cuba within one year, closed black sites, and ban torture in all military and CIA interrogations of terrorists.
Closing Gunatanamo Bay is a lot harder than President Obama realized when campaigning on it for two years. 
Where will he put this terrorists? Will he just let them loose in the world to kill more Americans?
And what is so wrong with Guantanamo Bay today? Do you know exactly?
“I think the conditions are much better now. It is not comparable anymore to what we saw at Camp X-Ray in 2002. The way people are dealt with is much better now, but that does not solve the principle problem. For the moment, they [detainees] have everything they need in their cells. They have good food, they have first-class medical service and they also have a chance, if the guards believe that they have behaved well, to have better conditions, including sports facilities.”
- Elmar Brok, Chairman of the Foreign Affairs Committee of the European Parliament, after his visit on May 22, 2006
“My impression is that the camp is run with the utmost professionalism and the conditions under which detainees are being held are clean and humane, and follow the spirit of the Geneva Conventions. The reality of Gitmo is very different from the largely negative portrait given by the press on our side of the Atlantic. Until the issue of what happens to detainees is resolved, the closing of Guantanamo could make the war on terrorism more difficult and ultimately more dangerous for our citizens.”
- James Elles, Member of the European Parliament, after his visit on May 22, 2006.
And what about all the victims and familiy members of the victims from 9/11, do they not deserve justice? Letting these terrorists go during wartime is not justice.
What do you consider to be torture anyway? Is playing the same song over and over again torture? Is sleep deprivation torture? President Obama is going to have a Blue Ribbon Panel define torture in a 6 month study. Well, we should all be able to answer these tough black and white questions.
When a nuclear bomb is heading towards America and you have the guy that knows how and where to stop it, would you torture him? Answer Yes or No?
“Less than 48 hours after taking office, Obama has begun dismantling those institutions without time for any such review. The CIA program he is effectively shutting down is the reason why America has not been attacked again after 9/11. He has removed the tool that is singularly responsible for stopping al-Qaeda from flying planes into the Library Tower in Los Angeles, Heathrow Airport, and London’s Canary Warf, and blowing up apartment buildings in Chicago, among other plots. It’s not even the end of inauguration week, and Obama is already proving to be the most dangerous man ever to occupy the Oval Office.” — Marc Thiessen
It’s not like we’re closing the prison and letting everyone go. Why are you righties so hung up on location? That prison is a blotch on our international image which needs a lot of cleaning. And do you really think that heritage.org is a fair and balanced source if you’re trying to change minds rather than just preach to the choir?
Not to be too picky, but if the bomb is already on the way, no amount of torturing will change that. Breaking international law for any reason only gives radicals yet another reason to say “If you won’t play by the rules, why should we.”
No. As a number of national security specialists would tell you, torture doesn’t work.
http://www.military.com/news/article/exinterrogator-torture-doesnt–work.html
“They want to kill every American Man, Woman, and Child all for their Allah.”
Remind me again, what kind of Muslim Timothy McVeigh was?? Oh that’s right, he wasn’t.
What a horrible, disgusting generalization.