Duplicate | January 23, 2009 | 14 comments

Guantanamo closure will help fight terror: Afghanistan

source: http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20090123/wl_nm/us_guantanamo_afghan

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KABUL (Reuters) – Afghan President Hamid Karzai welcomed the new U.S. administration's decision to close Guantanamo prison, saying Friday it would help build international support for the fight against terrorism.

Many Afghans detained since U.S.-led forces toppled the Taliban government after the September 11 attacks are still held in Guantanamo, hurting the standing of the United States in Afghanistan where some 30,000 U.S. troops are fighting a virulent Taliban insurgency.

"This good decision of the United States government will help find support among the international community for the fight against terrorism and include all nations in this fight," Karzai said in a statement.

"Closing this will have a good impact, a significant impact on the minds of Afghans here in Afghanistan," said Karzai's spokesman Humayun Hamidzada. "We see it as extremely important and timely and we appreciate the decision taken by the new administration."

The prison at Guantanamo Bay in Cuba -- where prisoners have been detained for years without charge, some subjected to interrogation that human rights groups say amounted to torture -- had damaged America's moral standing in the world.

President Barack Obama has ordered a full review of U.S. strategy in Afghanistan, where he is expected to approve plans to as much as double troop levels.
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  • ejasun
  • gaiusfurius
  • 2hellnwait
  • sirach481
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      sirach481  

    • Show the terrorists the same mercy they would show us.

      The Vietcong liked to cut off the heads of those they vanquished until the South Koreans started doing it to them.

      Feed them to the pigs.

    • 3 years ago
  • gaiusfurius
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      gaiusfurius  

    • Salamander should have read the article, but, he is too busy telling us how proud he is to be a leftie. Salmondine listen, the point of the article was to point he threw you a bone, made out of ICE. Tomorrow you go out to the dog house and wahla it is gone. He isn't going to close anything, stop anything or anything or else he would have done it yesterday. You are still young and naive. But you are a committed leftest we all get it. But when you are 35 you feel stupid for the things you said tonight, bet on it. Life has a way of growing you up whether you want it or not. For instance Obama has changed his complete platform in the last 12 months. So will you when the real world comes a knocking. Once you have to pay your own bills, once you reproduce gawd forbid, and once you see the error of your ways. The college mindset just don't work in the real world kid, sorry, of BTW Santa isn't real.Sorry you would probably find out by the end of the year anyway.

    • 3 years ago
  • Saladin
  • gaiusfurius
  • jahbini
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      jahbini  
    • gaiusfurius:

      Very colorful language, and inspirational too.

      But maybe just using logic and tact might get both your points across better.

      Very likely G isn't going to force S to change a belief, Neither will S change G's mind about anything. But (and this is the crux), maybe it will allow all the S's and G's of the world to come to a realization of the other's point of view.

      But that will require some actual disclosure about why you each have your diverse opinions.

      Just sayin'

    • 3 years ago
  • TonyDukes
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      TonyDukes  

    • And the point is? To satify and kiss ass to lefist/socialist who have no idea any concept of war or patriotism.

      Remeber the beheading of our military and jewish reporters? I saw photo's of Iraq's chamber of interrogation, and records they kept. One Spec Ops soldier showed me a photo of a child's tennis shoe, with the a partially mangled foot still in it. One of Saddam's interogator's had pitched the child in, in order to get the info he wanted from his parents. Later the parent's were killed.

      ANYTHING that saves and innocent person from getting cowardly killed by those with an intent only on evil and death should be used.

      Damnit to hell people WAKE UP and Do NOT talk about what you do not know or have not been.

    • 3 years ago
  • Saladin
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      Saladin  

    • I'm seriously hoping he wouldn't, but of course it's always fair to ask a person what they would do if they had all the power in a situation and were seriously emotionally distressed and hold that up as a legal standard. And of course we must make our laws according to hypothetical extremes rather than set an objective rule based on ethics and morality.

      Here's an excellent retort for your fucking pulpified-horse conservative meme. Who's to say that after you waterboarded him that he would even -TELL- you?

      You are aware that people can be trained to resist torture right? And that people can lie to get out of it right?

      I'm guessing you do and that you don't care. You're just some tribalistic idiot, still trying to sustain the cult of Bush.

    • 3 years ago
  • Saladin
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      Saladin  
    • Saladin:

      That is also a hilarious bit of irony. You support a party that gives less than shit about you.

      But thanks for the reply, the relevant retorts you supplied have shaken the foundations of my logic and have forced me back into my demonic communist lair to think up new plots. Amurika is safe for another day.

    • 3 years ago
  • Saladin
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      Saladin  
    • Saladin:

      No it wasn't, I just completely destroyed your argument and you have no idea what to say.

      I just proved to you that that wold NOT work AND that we don't base laws off of what we would LIKE to do, we base them on what is right.

      By your logic, why don't we publicly castrate sex offenders? How would YOU feel if one of them went after your kids?

      Or why don't we torture drug dealers or drunk drivers for that matter. How would you feel if you were a victim of crime?

    • 3 years ago
  • Steven44
  • jahbini
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      jahbini  
    • Steven44:

      No, Any President would need to step down due to his inability to be square minded in such a case. This is just the kind of scenario that makes for bad decisions.

      Would you expect a fair trial from a judge with the same kind of conflict of interest?

    • 3 years ago
  • Saladin
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      Saladin  

    • That's right, enforcing the constitution and ending torture is just something far-lefties care about.

      You're so far right you're left.

    • 3 years ago
  • gaiusfurius
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      gaiusfurius  

    • Obama has many good plans. This isn't one of them.In fact this announcement is just lip service to appease hiw far Left supporters. I watched the talking heads on three stations tonight. And Guantanamo probably will not close, if it does it will just be moved to Afghanistan or somewhere else. The torture question also just a ruse to please the angry left. The small changes can be thrown out in a second just by the CIA telling Obama they need to do it. That option was left in the changes. So..it is just a feel good press release. Yawl feel good?

    • 3 years ago
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