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Old 01-22-2010, 11:05 AM   #61
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Closing Gitmo and moving them onto US soil are two VERY different situations and, I believe, have very different legal ramifications.
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Old 01-22-2010, 11:06 AM   #62
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Hey! Where did that ^^^^ smiley come from?
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Old 01-22-2010, 11:14 AM   #63
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That's strange, I tried the "quote" button, and the "edit" button, and the smilie doesn't show up in either.
It must be Jesus in shades!
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Old 01-22-2010, 11:25 AM   #64
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someone must have slipped the cellar a lil some somethin'
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Old 01-22-2010, 11:39 AM   #65
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You have to Edit and then Go Advanced and it's the Post Icon below the edit box.
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Old 01-22-2010, 11:48 AM   #66
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Thanks, I must have hit it accidentally.
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Old 01-23-2010, 01:59 AM   #67
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A twenty five minute discussion of a US military guard in Guantanamo and two of the first prisioners held there.
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Old 01-28-2010, 09:46 AM   #68
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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.
Supposedly Saudi Arabia has a rehabilitation center for gitmo victims and it has a 80% rate of getting gitmo detainees to live normal lives again. But unfortunately, many of the 20% have started their own terrorist group, AQAP, and took responsibility for the Christmas Day bombing...

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Care_Rehabilitation_Center
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Old 01-28-2010, 10:00 AM   #69
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"getting gitmo detainees to live normal lives again."
define normal . . .
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Old 01-28-2010, 10:03 AM   #70
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define normal . . .
Not blowing up people....

http://www.alarabiya.net/articles/2009/04/27/71553.html

Here's a PBS documentary video of the center
http://www.pbs.org/wnet/wideangle/un...and-back/4180/
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Old 01-28-2010, 10:12 AM   #71
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Newsnight did a really interesting piece about that last week.
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Old 01-28-2010, 11:46 AM   #72
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Supposedly Saudi Arabia has a rehabilitation center for gitmo victims and it has a 80% rate of getting gitmo detainees to live normal lives again. But unfortunately, many of the 20% have started their own terrorist group, AQAP, and took responsibility for the Christmas Day bombing...

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Care_Rehabilitation_Center
There is proof enough we should have just shot them. Releasing them back into the wild is just begging for trouble.
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Old 01-28-2010, 11:59 AM   #73
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Cause that would NEVER backfire.....
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Old 01-28-2010, 12:03 PM   #74
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Not if you kill enough of them.
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Old 01-28-2010, 12:07 PM   #75
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Not if you get two people to join the terrorist movement for every person you kill. But eh, you are looking for a reaction now.
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