Obama orders Guantanamo closure

In spite of our failings, we here in the United States are blessed to be here, and with those blessings, comes the burden of restoration of our moral authority. This isn't done with floating 9 or 10 carriers around, or dumping food out of a C-130. From the very outset, faulted "intelligence", obtained through torture, was touted as a viable justification to go hunt down those weapons of mass destruction, as it were.

You want some intel? Remove their wisdom teeth .. while they're on a sodium pentathol drip .. geesh

Switzerland has offered to take in those Gitmo prisoners, that we have no further interest in, and for one reason or another, cannot return to their country of origin. As for the others .. they should be tried or released, as would any other person, being incarcerated under the color of authority by any entity that is under our Flag.

Obama gave himself a year, but as anyone who's been in the US military will tell you .. things can move a heck of alot faster, when the word comes down. Why not normalize relations with Cuba while we're at it .. we've got four months of new car inventory that's begging for new markets.

God knows, there has been an uprecedented erosion of our "moral authority" over the past eight years. But, I gotta tellya .. it didn't just start with Bush. Under Truman's watch, the promise made to Ho Chi Min was broken, and me and a few million other souls went to Viet Nam.

Closing Gitmo is a helluva good start. Mabe even consider putting up the Flag this coming Forth. It's been awhile ...

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Finally! This has been like 40 days and nights in the wilderness! Eight years without power, and now the lights are back on! Whow!

This is fantastic, I'm so so pleased. The US' record of human rights was one of the main things I wanted to see Obama turn around and this is a huge step to showing that he means what he says.

Cometh the hour, cometh the man.

honestly clownpunched? i dont think i have anything to fear but fear itself. the limits placed on vision by fear must be stifling. please tell me how it is. also we wouldnt have this problem in the first place if your glorious retarded cowboy idol bush hadnt decided to ignore the geneva convention.

Amaizing how something can be done if you want i to get done. What is to be of this land then?

He is letting his Muamim brothers go

Its a start.

I don't care how scared you are of these people, they're still HUMANS.

Torture is a war crime. Are we going to be shouting out to the world that we are war criminals forever?

Of course the terror isn't going to stop. We're all greedy little Americans, and that's never going to change. And yes, I mean YOU TOO!

When was the last time you recycled anything? Drove a hybrid car, or even better yet - took the bus? Donated to charity? Fed a homeless person? Gave an impoverished child a new pair of shoes? Volunteered? When was the last time you bought from a mom and pop store instead of Wal-Mart or Macy's or Target?

The terror will not stop until the people of America change and demand the same change out of their government and businesses.

When i heard this on the radio when i woke up today i was shocked and confused, but happy at the same time then i hit the snooze and slept through my math class lol...but i think this is a step to say that there needs to be reformation within the walls of justice and our country..good looking out Barak

Thank goodness! If we want our own troops and citizens to be treated humanely we have to set the appropriate example ourselves!

where are the detainess gonna go?

Haleluja!

Batman '12

Leave it to a leader whose roots are planted in struggle to keep word and move forward. Right on, President Obama. Right On!

looks like we have 8 years of repiglican trolling to look forward to. hehe i love it. squeal lil repiggies! squeal! -

yeah! +10

that public statement he just gave amazed me!

Put em' to work on the L A freeways cleaning graffiti or Mcdonalds.

As the sister of someone who died in the twin towers, I am so relieved to know that these people will no longer be tortured. The poor misguided terrorists have certainly suffered long enough. I can assure that the other members of my family, as well as my niece, have completely recovered from my sister not being around. And my niece is perfectly fine with not having her mother at her upcoming wedding. Yup, the prisoners deserve to have a wonderful rest of their life, having our tax dollars pay for their suffering. Gotta love the American mentality!

looks like we have 8 years of repiglican trolling to look forward to. hehe i love it. squeal lil repiggies! squeal!

Ah yes. I love how Current Vangaurd just covered this! We were chatting yesterday and I wonder what they are going to do with the prisoners whos countrys wont accept them back?

I suppose all of you wouldn't mind these detainee's being placed in a prison in your home town right? You wouldn't be worried at all about the repercussions from terror groups being taken out on your home city right? And when they are paroled I'm sure you all won't mind them moving in right next door right? And hundreds of millions that will be spent in the legal courts on appeals and trials is all better spent there than in our schools right?

Oh by the way has it occurred to ANYBODY that none of these fine gents had their Miranda rights read to them so in a civilian US court their all INNOCENT and will be MUST be given mistrials.

Hmmmm idealism gone bad again!

all i am really saying here is you're in the I want America to succeed. I want the right policies for America. It's not about The Messiah or the anointed one or any one individual. Any wrong-handed policies that's going to take America off a course of success which is what we've been on individual responsibility, liberty, freedom. You know, we all have choices in America. It's the antithesis of where we're headed.

wow fast to sign paper that bush was had preped and didn't sign 3 weeks ago. how do you feel in brooklyn if another plane hit somewhere in your burrow. i guess it would be okay and obama would still be the best right?

close it...this is great news......... put them in genral population in a state pen, they might not make their own trials,oh and no more torture,very human of us.i like da prez he fast worker.

God help american with a leader like this.

Thank you for making me feel less safe with these terrorist hungry to get revenge and do more killing.

LOL!!! escape....? LOL... destiny has NO Escape...
who is "we"
america vs humanity...

But then again... God has put a secret window into the closed room.....lol...funny how evil cannot detect where it is...lol, certainly not a lacking in effort though...God help us!!!

I like that Obama guy!!

this is not good news now these American killers will be someplace where they can escape easily I hope we don't have another twin towers situation so Obama can make us look better in the world eyes ..... Which we as Americans shouldn't give a flying *hoot* ya feel me?

some of the things Obama needs to do is just so simple and obvious. just reverse the legacy of bush as much as possible

gO Bama...gOBama...gO Bama...

It's about time... What a terrible scar on America ...

Great job! Obama is already 100 times more effective than Bush ever was and it's only a few days into his Presidency.

hmmmmm... someone doing what they are saying,could this be a restored faith in humanity???

Why is he not closing it sooner than that? It's nice to know that its going to be closed but right now Guantanamo Bay is a stain on Americas shirt. We need to clean it up.

I'm surprised (and elated) that he is following up on his promises so quickly.

this is good news