Welcome to Obamaland – where reality doesn’t even begin to intrude!

If this is true liberals may have to re-evaluated what we think of Gates.

What is “difficult” is that everyone who has kept it open all this time and extra-legal are variously guilty of torture, war crimes, and breaking more ‘prosaic’ US laws such as denial of civil rights, obstruction of justice,unlawful imprisonment, kidnapping etc., all of which would be plainly exposed IF Gitmo were closed immediately and its captives brought into the US legal system and given the public trials they are entitled to.
What’s “difficult” is that those who opened and operated Gitmo can’t ‘prove ‘ their cases against their prisoners, and they can’t ‘get rid of the evidence’ (the prisoners themselves) in a timely fashion by simply shipping them out of there back to their own countries or other countries.

Hence. closing Gitmo is “difficult“

Sounds like an occasion to throw a block party.

Why is it that the nega-cons always sell America short? We can’t house prisoners securely on ANY military facility?

I don’t know any member of Congress who would be willing to say a military base IN HIS/HER district, couldn’t be competent enough to secure their prisoners?

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What does this have to do with anything? Since when did we start asking members of Congress for volunteers to have criminals deposited in their districts?

This discourse is just getting stupid.

The legislature has nothing to do with the status of prisoners being held for trial. We have a third branch of government which is in charge of that determination.

As I’ve said before, Republicans are the people who slept in the back row during 8th grade civics class.

That’s freedom, George W. Bush style. And the Ba’ath Party was originally the secular party–that’s why the U.S. helped it, and Saddam, become the tinpot dictator. Just ask Reagan–or James Baker, he’ll tell you.

The secular government is gone. In its place is an all-but Shi’a theocracy.

Saddam was a bulwark against Iran’s fundamentalist political society. That bulwark is gone–or, it will be gone once we withdraw.

What a complete idiot Condaleeza Rice is. We had Saddam protecting millions of moderate Muslims from Iran’s theocratic approaches, for FREE, and now we’re paying trillions for much crappier infrastructure that will collapse once we leave. Heckuva job, Worst Secretary of State EVER.

Jeezus, will they ever run out of smoke to try to blow up our arses?

I believe the true fear hear is that the country they’re returned to will HONOR them and RELEASE them.

Such as, prosecuting Bush/Cheney, Rice, Rumsfeld, Wolfowitz, Feith, Perle, Powell, Abrams, et al, for their WAR CRIMES!