Obama Team Clears 75 At Guantanamo For Release

Reuters:

MIAMI (Reuters) - An Obama administration task force has so far cleared 75 of the remaining 223 Guantanamo prisoners for release as part of its effort to close the detention camp, a military spokesman said on Monday.

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Comments

[TankGirlz]

The most interesting thing to me in all this, is they're going to talk, and talk and talk about why they were imprisoned, how they were treated..all of it...

Not gonna be pretty folks!

[TankGirlz]

like this....

In a third case, the full federal appeals court in New York is reconsidering an earlier decision by three of its members to toss out a lawsuit by a man who was changing planes in the United States when he was mistaken for a terrorist and sent to Syria, where he claims he was tortured.

Read more at: http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2009/09/29/ashcroft-yoo-lawsuits-exb_n_302638.html

[PRONESE]

Oh Good!
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Now, WHERE are they going to live? Palau? Bermuda? Detroit? Pakistan?
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Posish!
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R/ PRONESE

[ChelseaC]

Good.

[dems08]

245 prisoners at gitmo on Jan. 22, 2009

148 prisoners now left to be cleared or tried...

[Shadow08]

It's a good start for a very difficult and complex situation created by an administration that knew they would just leave it for someone else to deal with. They did the same thing with 2 w a r s and a recession. They just left it all behind without blinking an eye.

[ibsteve2u]

That's called "Take the money and run!".

[1dogs2]

But those set for release still have to wait for a country (other than one that might torture them) to accept them. What a disaster this Bush policy was.

[Feanor]

I would like to be sent to Palau.

What crime do I have to be accused of and not tried on to realize my dream?

[mergina]

Clearing them, or releasing them for political reasons to SAVE FACE?

[platanoman]

Silence

[Shadow08]

No, for moral reasons. The whole ting is a test of morality. The GOP failed...

[ObamacratInCA]

"Clearing them, or releasing them for political reasons to SAVE FACE?"

Save face with whom? Foreign policy hawks and indefinite imprisonment apologists like Liz and Dick Cheney? To save face with the left?

He said he it was going to be difficult but that's going to do it. Now he's keeping that promise. That seems are more plausible explanation than doing it for political reasons. Releasing prisoners from Guantanamo isn't popular but it's the right thing to do.

[ChiGuy]

Wow.
This should send Beck, Limbaugh, and O'Reilly over the edge.

Given the massive numbers of fires left burning by the Bush administration, I am pleased that Obama's policies are moving along at at least a decent pace.

[rf dude]

Now Gitmo has Got-less...
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[mcantwell]

Looks like progress is being made. Shrub only managed to prosecute 3 in six years.

[popartusa]

i wonder how many of the men held in cuba are really guilty of anything serious enough to be held so long in such terrible conditons with so little protection under the law.....and i wonder if they are not really learning to seriouly hate america while they suffer under our great "American Injustice System"....

[SassySafrine]

Probably all of them. Even if Gitmo was like the best hotel (and it is not), it is still imprisonment.

[Shadow08]

Not only them, but their familes and friends, who network outward and create more h8 for America. That is the true legacy of Bush/Cheney...they sowed the seeds of h8, and we the people have to live through the harvest.

[sviolette]

I know that I would have a deep hatred of any country that did the same to me. I also know how I would feel if another country came over here and started dropping bombs on civilians and shutting of all power sources and just shooting at and torturing our people.

[madcat007]

I've always thought it ironic that most of us liberals (not all) live in the Northeast, DC, and west coast, the places most coveted by terrorists. Yet it's conservatives in agriculture states who seem most frightened about terrorism. I don't want to make light of a serious subject, but I doubt international terrorists care too much about corn and hogs. Their target will be the financial and political districts. I guess I just feel that living life in constant fear is not a life worth living. What happened in NYC, DC and that PA field was horrific, but when we change our way of life because of their actions...they've already won. We should've used our resources and gotten bin Laden, but never should've invaded Iraq.

[SassySafrine]

I doubt if anyone changed their lives at all.

[Coinyer101]

Good! Now bring the rest up on trial, and either convict them, or take 'em back where ya got 'em......,

[VikingQuest]

If they are innocent we should bring them into the USA.

[Coinyer101]

No!

[SassySafrine]

Why not?

[S1m0n]

After all, you owe them, big time.

[bluesmann]

Hope they leave with a supply of cialis. We need them re-producing fodder for our smart bom-bs...

[Petey131]

Funny. You should join the other clowns of the GOP. You will fit right in.

[bluesmann]

So they took my advice...opened the gates of the Git-mo Hilton and let the residents out into the cool Cuban night...how sweet...

[jrmarsh]

Bush/Cheney released 700 of them, did you have a problem with that?

[PepeLepew]

Oh, no, the terr.orists will be out on our streets!
Don't they know they have superhuman powers!? The f00ls!
They'll never stop trying to ki.ll us because they h @ te how free we are.

[sviolette]

True and don't forget they walk around with nuclear weapons in their pockets.

[CessnaDriver]

Maybe they are just happy to see you!