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I think Obama felt exactly the same way going into office, but quickly realized the people being sent to Gauntanamo Bay are as dangerous, ambitious and as harde
by Dagwoodie 10y ago
I think Obama felt exactly the same way going into office, but quickly realized the people being sent to Gauntanamo Bay are as dangerous, ambitious and as hardened extremists as they had been saying. Releasing them would greatly increase the chances of a terrorist act on western countries. I'm not saying they shouldn't get some kind of trial, but the notion that they are very likely all at the very least future suicide bombers is often overlooked. Bush's administration had been saying it and I think Obama came to believe it first hand once he got into office.
- JoeAltmaier 10y agoWe'd know what they were like, if they were allowed a trial and could defend themselves? As it is, we take the word of military police etc. Who have never made a mistake?
- npiazza83 10y agoIf the NSA's information gathering operation weren't simultaneously voraciously accruing unto itself powers to operate within the boundaries of the US contrary to its original mandate then the existence of Guantanamo bay as a facility to indefinitely suspend the rights of enemy combatants exclusively outside the boundaries of the US would be far more palatable.