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06-10-2009, 08:56 AM | #46 |
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Many legal scholars disagree. And I am no legal scholar but I definately disagree..
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06-10-2009, 08:44 PM | #47 |
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Here's a wacky idea.
It is "wrong" to keep these people in prison without trial. It is legally virtually impossible to have a proper trial after all the, ahem, enhanced interrogation etc. But it would be high risk to just let them go wandering off where-ever they like. If you'd locked me up for seven years, I'd be pissed at you and want revenge, even if I hadn't been a terrorist to start with. So, how about we convert Gitmo into a luxury resort, and keep them there? The islolation cells become private suites. Waterboarding is replaced with wakeboarding. Kangaroo courts are replaced with tennis courts. Handcuffs are replaced with some nice jewelry. Burly guards are replaced with masseuses. They're still all where we can watch them and they can't do much, but their lives are much better.
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06-11-2009, 07:50 AM | #48 |
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I like it. Or we could just send them to Sandles @ Palau.
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06-11-2009, 07:53 AM | #49 |
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Ahh, we call that the "pacific solution". Got a nice ring to it, don't you think.
Maybe you might call it the April Sun in Cuba Holiday Resort Solution. Nauru is a great place to store boat people applying for refugee status.
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06-11-2009, 08:13 AM | #50 |
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I have never been to Palau but we did take care of a lot of their people when I was at Tripler AMC in Hawaii. From what I gathered there is not much there, not much to do when you are there, and most people are dirt poor.
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06-27-2009, 06:52 AM | #51 |
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Well how about that? Where is the outcry?
Obama may hold detainees indefinitely http://www.politico.com/news/stories/0609/24278.html
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06-27-2009, 10:22 AM | #52 |
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It has its own thread and there was an entire discussion on it while you were away - meh.
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06-27-2009, 10:29 AM | #53 |
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meh..... my bad.
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08-21-2009, 06:44 PM | #54 | |
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Paging Valerie Plame, paging Valerie Plame!
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http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn...004295_pf.html
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01-21-2010, 10:34 PM | #55 | |
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Perhaps idealism has met reality. Things aren't as easy in the real world.
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01-21-2010, 11:23 PM | #56 |
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The fact that it's taking so long shows they just aren't turning everybody loose for political gain. They are doing cautiously, and systematically, but most importantly, they're doing it... as promised.
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Well said Bruce.
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01-22-2010, 07:59 AM | #58 | |
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Don't know of these people, but they seem to contradict the official US stance on how many are returning to terrorism. It could be different definitions, or just being extra cautious. Bruce, I too am glad that the place is being shut down. I said so long ago.
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Then there is this . . .
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