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If other countries would stay out of our business (they way they ask us to stay out of theirs) then we wouldn't be in this position. The prisoners would be left alone like they have been for years.
Show me proof that they are innocent.
Originally posted by nyk537
I'm done with this thread. Intelligent discussion is out the window.
Originally posted by FlyersFan
Originally posted by Kryties
Yeah, we are demanding it's closure because of it's inhumane conditions
Riiiiiiiiight. Inhumane.
They eat three religiously correct meals a day. They have better medical care then they have ever had in their lives. They are provided all their religious needs including their holy books which they themselves flush down toilets.
Here - you can get yourself a copy of the recipies that are used for the terrorists in GITMO ... yes, feeding them Baked Tandouri Chicken Breast, Mustard-Dill Baked Fish, Lyonnaise Rice, and Fish Amandine is sooooooo inhumane!
Newsflash - The Red Cross visited GITMO and said it definately is NOT inhumane.
Inhumane is what the terrorists were doing to innocent people before they got locked up in GITMO.
Originally posted by Kryties
it is your RESPONSIBILITY to clean it up,
If you people would MIND YOUR OWN BUSINESS and leave the terrorists in GITMO then there wouldn't be anything to 'clean up'.
So shut up and leave the terrorists in GITMO otherwise stop being hypocrites and take them to your own back yard.
Originally posted by DantesLost
we have been asked to take some prisoners,so why should we butt out? The request from America has to be answered does it not?
Because the only reason you are being asked to take them is because you whined about GITMO being there in the first place. If you hadn't whined, then you wouldn't be asked.
It's not that hard to comprehend.
Originally posted by lunarminer
So, what we have in Gitmo, is a bunch of spies, terrorist, and unlawfull combatants, being held in a military detention center. This is exactly what the Geneva Conventions demand.
Originally posted by lunarminer
As for the question of why we don't let the prisoners decide where they want to go. Well aside from the obvious fact that they are prisoners and therefore denied free movement. Many of the detainees remaining in Guantanamo, do not want to be sent to their home countries because many of them are wanted for crimes commited there. So, the US is going above and beyond for them in seeking a neutral country to take them.
Originally posted by lunarminer
reply to post by reiki
If you all want to worry about abuses, consider how dangerous it is to make decisions like this based on political allignment.
Prisoners of war, in the sense of the present Convention, are persons belonging to one of the following categories, who have fallen into the power of the enemy:
2. Members of other militias and members of other volunteer corps, including those of organized resistance movements, belonging to a Party to the conflict and operating in or outside their own territory, even if this territory is occupied, provided that such militias or volunteer corps, including such organized resistance movements, fulfil the following conditions:
* that of being commanded by a person responsible for his subordinates;
* that of having a fixed distinctive sign recognizable at a distance;
* that of carrying arms openly;
* that of conducting their operations in accordance with the laws and customs of war.
As I pointed out the GC clearly states that a person captured on a battlefield may not (read that must not) try these individuals in a civil court. So all the arguments invoking the US Constitution are moot. These protections do not apply in a military courts martial.