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Ten Things We Can Do With Guantanamo Bay Detainees
By: Aaron Goldstein
RightConservative.com 06-12-05

Since Amnesty International Secretary General Irene Khan’s infamously described Guantanamo Bay as the “gulag of our times” the Left has fallen all over itself in calling for Guantanamo’s closure. Never mind that millions were killed in the Soviet gulags while Guantanamo Bay holds fewer than 600 detainees. But again, as so often happens with today’s Left, why let the facts get in the way of a good sound bite.

Over the past week, former President Jimmy Carter, Democratic Senator Joe Biden, House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi and the New York Times have called for Guantanamo Bay to be closed.

So what happens to the detainees at Guantanamo? The aforementioned individuals and organizations are less clear. Senator Biden indicated on ABC’s This Week with George Stephanopoulos that we keep the detainees we need to keep but is vague about where the remainder should end up.

Despite the fact that President Bush dismissed Amnesty International’s charges as “absurd” he has hinted that Guantanamo’s days may be numbered. In an interview with Neil Cavuto of the Fox News Channel, Bush remarked, “Well, you know, we’re exploring all alternatives as to how best to do the main objective, which is to protect America. I mean, what we don’t want to do is let somebody out that comes back and harms us, and so we’re looking at all alternatives, and have been.”

With all due respect to the President this seems odd. If Guantanamo is to be closed on the basis that a former prisoner could harm us one could also argue that every prison in the United States should be closed because their inmates might offend again once released back into society. Moreover, it legitimizes the Left’s misrepresentation of the treatment of detainees at Guantanamo Bay. This was an error on Bush’s part not only for emboldening his political foes but confusing his closest political allies.

Prior to Bush’s interview, Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld called Guantanamo the only “safe option” for detainees that were captured in Afghanistan. However, since Bush’s interview, Rumsfeld has indicated that the detainees ought to be tried in their country of origin. Of course, this assumes that the detainees’ countries of origins want them back in the first place.


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teacher

From the home office in Tampa:

10.Render (no I don't mean send to other countries)
9.House/cabana boys for 9/11 victims
8.Inter at monkey house at zoo: we throw feces at them
7.Hanukkah stocking stuffers
6.Behead one of ours: we behead two of yours
5.I got a great idea. send them to other countries and let them torture them...huh....wha...oh never mind
4.one word: chum
3.be real cruel:send them to an American prison
2.dress up as little boys:send to neverland
and the number one thing to do with gitmo detainees: wait for deer season-staple antlers to heads and send to swampkritters neck of the woods

GarzaUK

If they ARE terrorists CHARGE them in a fair trail and then imprison them, but the US won't do that.
Which makes me believe that the US government doesn't have proof that they are terrorists. You can't rule out the fact that a just a few might have been in the wrong place at the wrong time - and a few is too many.

If you want to treat them as POW's fair enough by me, as long as you give them all the rights that come with being a POW.

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Gandhi>Bush

Religious services on demand(I know, I know, it's pretty much already there)

Educate them and supply them with a large library of prefferably pro American books or anti violence books.

Satellite TV in all the cells so they can watch TLC all day.

Feed them the best food that is affordable, how ever much they want. Fatten them up.

Not really in the mood to think up ten.

Anything else that makes them enjoy their stay at prison.

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Binary_Digit

The number one thing to do with the Gitmo detainees: treat them like we would have them treat us. With justice, fairness, and honesty. They should be treated within the spirit of the Geneva accord as it pertains to human rights, regardless of the legal technicality that they aren't PoW's. They should be given a fair trial and appropriately punished if found guilty.

Naughty Nurse

How many of these people have actually been found guilty of anything? How many have had a trial?

And GWB (and, I'm ashamed to say, Phoney Blair) wanted to invade Iraq to stop what? Exactly this kind of thing, perhaps?

What total hypocracy!

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Urethra Franklin

Shouldn't the US get off Cuban territory and set up it's torture camps on it's own land?

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flip2

The Clinton Administration tried that in 1993 during the first attack on the World Trade Center....it took quite a long time, and the mastermind got a slap on the wrist, it seems.

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flip2

Jealous, are you?

ANAV

First things first. William H. Schultz, executive director of Amnesty International USA, is a far left leaning Democrat who contributed $2000 (the most allowed by a private citizen) to John Kerry's presidential run and $1000 to Ted Kennedy's 2006 senate campaign. So I have a hard time believing the GITMO report in an honest assessment.

http://www.washtimes.com/national/20...0456-1031r.htm

Those who think we should charge or release the detainees don't know much about international law. The detainees have been give "enemy combatant" status and thus do not have to be charged until the war (on terrorism) is declared over. The detainees are not legally afforded the right of due process. No laws, national or international, have been violated.

Somebody posted a line stating that we should treat them like would would want them to treat us. Maybe they should feel lucky we do not treat them like they treat us. We choose to leave their heads on their shoulders.

Lets not forget the majority of these detainees were captured on the battlefields of Afghanistan taken up arms against us.

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