Hope, Change and Welfare for Freed Gitmo Detainees

[Caedus]

http://www.google.com/hostednews/ap/article/ALeqM5hAuRnefeehLy7i8HyzT98iON4QOQD975U2TG0

During his news conference, Blair also said the Obama administration is still wrestling with what to do with the remaining 240 detainees at the Guantanamo Bay Naval Base, which the president has ordered closed.

Some of the detainees, deemed non-threatening, may be released into the United States as free men, Blair confirmed.

That would happen when they can't be returned to their home countries, because the governments either won't take them or the U.S. fears they will be abused or tortured. That is the case with 17 Uighurs (WEE'-gurz), Chinese Muslim separatists who were cleared for release from the jail long ago. The U.S. can't find a country willing to take them, and it will not turn them over to China.

Blair said the former prisoners would have [to] get some sort of assistance to start their new lives in the United States.

“We can't put them out on the street,” he said.

:wub:

It's great to live in a country so loving that we give free shit to people that trained with/are members of groups that've made it their mission in life to kill us.

 

[Sarek]

Well, if Bush and his buddies wouldn't have so thoroughly screwed the pooch when it came to detaining people with no concrete proof that they were associating with or a part of terrorist groups, we might not have this problem.

40 people are in a bank when a guy robs it. Do you detain everyone indefinitely just because they happened to be there? That's pretty much what Dubya dumbass did.

 

[Sarek]

You suck.

No, I just don't believe in guilt by association.

If that were the case, I'd demand legislation to lock up all conservatives because Bush and Cheney represented them, if in name only. You should be thankful I'm a bit more liberal minded.