President Barack Obama Suspends All Guantanamo Bay Prosecutions For 120 Days

Damn. Obama's already on top of it!

He wasn't lying when he said he would do this on the first day. :o

http://politicalticker.blogs.cnn.com/category/guantanamo-bay/

:O

he wastes no time

How's that possible when I just saw him having a slow dance with Michelle at the Southern Ball? :?helium_flash

How's that possible when I just saw him having a slow dance with Michelle at the Southern Ball? :?helium_flash

[QUOTE="helium_flash"]How's that possible when I just saw him having a slow dance with Michelle at the Southern Ball? :?Devour2Survive

Great, now the US will get attacked again.one_on_one

Great, now the US will get attacked again.one_on_one

Eh huh...

Great! Now that the rights of terrorists and spies have been given to them, we can now worry about the small issues, like the economy, the war, and illegal immigration.DOS4dinner

http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2008/03/28/60minutes/main3976928.shtml

See, the way our criminal justice system is supposed to work is that we have these things called "courts" and "evidence." I don't care what country they are citizens of.

I think he should just execute them all....GTA_dude

[QUOTE="DOS4dinner"]Great! Now that the rights of terrorists and spies have been given to them, we can now worry about the small issues, like the economy, the war, and illegal immigration.SpaceMoose

http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2008/03/28/60minutes/main3976928.shtml

See, the way our criminal justice system is supposed to work is that we have these things called "courts" and "evidence." I don't care what country they are citizens of.

Yeah, and our criminal justice system is for our CITIZENS. Not foreign fights, terrorists, spies, etc. If you're caught as an enemy combatant, you have very few rights, if any. And even less if you aren't on American soil. I think this is a dumb move.remmbermytitans

[QUOTE="DOS4dinner"]Great! Now that the rights of terrorists and spies have been given to them, we can now worry about the small issues, like the economy, the war, and illegal immigration.SpaceMoose

http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2008/03/28/60minutes/main3976928.shtml

See, the way our criminal justice system is supposed to work is that we have these things called "courts" and "evidence." I don't care what country they are citizens of.

Problem is, there have NEVER been U.S. trials for POWs or "enemy combatants". There weren't exactly U.S. trials of German and Japanese prisoners after the war. There were the Hague trials for the Nazi leadership, but that's the World Court, and nobody at the World Court wants to touch trying these people. That's what makes this whole "I can't believe we're not extending Habeas Corpus to the prisoners at Guantanamo!" so silly to me. They're NOT U.S. citizens! They've never even BEEN in the U.S., how could they possibly be tried by "a jury of their peers" here? Literally the first time they'd ever have been in the U.S... would be to go on trial.

This is an "image" move only. Barack's not dumb (which is why I voted for him), he'll just move the prisoners to another location and set up an altered version of military tribunals. Which is going to make a lot of people go apesh--, for one reason only... they can't imagine that Bush did ONE SINGLE THING right. As a result, Obama's going to take tons of useless heat because he's not going to roll back every single thing Bush ever did. Which will be quite stupid. But, alas.

That's a good way to start his presidency.

Are prisoners of war any different? At least with prisoners of war you know what country they're from, what part of the military they belong to, etc. With these groups that don't represent a country, that don't belong to any military, or anything, they need to be held somewhere. We can't just send them back or release them, chances are they'll try to kill again.remmbermytitans

The thing I don't get is this: if you know they're terrorists, prosecute them. If you have no evidence on them, release them. I don't understand all this "we aren't going to charge them with anything but we're going to hold them there forever anyway" bit.

[QUOTE="remmbermytitans"]Are prisoners of war any different? At least with prisoners of war you know what country they're from, what part of the military they belong to, etc. With these groups that don't represent a country, that don't belong to any military, or anything, they need to be held somewhere. We can't just send them back or release them, chances are they'll try to kill again.GabuEx

The thing I don't get is this: if you know they're terrorists, prosecute them. If you have no evidence on them, release them. I don't understand all this "we aren't going to charge them with anything but we're going to hold them there forever anyway" bit.

[QUOTE="SpaceMoose"]

[QUOTE="DOS4dinner"]Great! Now that the rights of terrorists and spies have been given to them, we can now worry about the small issues, like the economy, the war, and illegal immigration.remmbermytitans

http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2008/03/28/60minutes/main3976928.shtml

See, the way our criminal justice system is supposed to work is that we have these things called "courts" and "evidence." I don't care what country they are citizens of.

Your criminal justice system is a joke:) A US soldier, while drunk, hit a cab while driving his Jeep in the middle of the city and killed one of our most famous musicians.

He was sent back to the US and was found innocent. They couldn't prove that the victim was in the taxi:lol:

Awesome.

Just google VanGoethem to see.

[QUOTE="remmbermytitans"][QUOTE="SpaceMoose"]

http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2008/03/28/60minutes/main3976928.shtml

See, the way our criminal justice system is supposed to work is that we have these things called "courts" and "evidence." I don't care what country they are citizens of.

Baranga

Your criminal justice system is a joke:) A US soldier, while drunk, hit a cab while driving his Jeep in the middle of the city and killed one of our most famous musicians.

He was sent back to the US and was found innocent. They couldn't prove that the victim was in the taxi:lol:

Awesome.

Just google VanGoethem to see.

Best president ever confirmedToriko42

So far, Obama has lived down to all my extremely low expectations of him.mysterylobster

Wow. How does one get to be a "Master Hater"? You take it to a whole new level. It is gonna be a hard 8 years for you (yes, I said 8 ).