What you don't understand is this is Bush's mess.
Idiot, Gitmo was funded and approved by CONGRESS, which was and is, FULL of Dems. The only reason you think it's a "mess" is, you're parroting the far-left again. It's OUR "mess."
Obama is dealing with his mess.
By doing exactly what Bush was going to do!
And I'm sure you were a big advocate of GITMO.
I damn sure am. It's by far the most humane detention in the history of mankind. It's club fucking MED compared to Supermax.
Exactly what Obama's doing, exactly what Bush had planned. Try the ones you can indict, military tribunals for the ones you can't, and for the really dangerous ones? Keep them until they rot.
If they are unlawful enemy combatants too dangerous to let go, find them guilty and put them in a supermax.
I don't know about sobpoenas. This is the first I'm hearing about this technicality you speak of where we can't try them without that. Are you sure? Proof?
Anyways, Obama is speeding up the process. Due process. I know that might only be a right Americans get, but Jose Padilla was an American.
Tim McVeigh & Jeffrey Dahmer got due process. Why not Jose Padilla?
You can't take rights away from Americans for any reason. Or, you shouldn't. Our liberties are slowly being eroded.
Was GITMO funded and approved in 2002 when the GOP had control? They pushed through the Patriot Act too. Yea, there were a few dems in the government back then, so I guess they have to take half the blame, even though the GOP were in full control. So anything that happens now is the GOP's fault too then?
In 2001, President George W. Bush signed an executive order that stipulated that US military could indefinitely detain any non-citizen who he believed was involved in international terrorism. After the Justice Department advised that the Guantanamo Bay Detention Camp could be considered outside US legal jurisdiction, prisoners captured in Afghanistan were moved there beginning in early 2002. After the Bush administration asserted that detainees were not entitled to any of the protections of the Geneva Conventions, the U.S. Supreme Court ruled in Hamdan v. Rumsfeld on June 29, 2006 that they were entitled to the minimal protections listed under Common Article 3 of the Geneva Conventions.[4] Following this, on July 7, 2006, the Department of Defense issued an internal memo stating that prisoners would in the future be entitled to protection under Common Article 3.[5][6][7] The detainees currently held as of June 2008 have been classified by the United States as "enemy combatants".
On January 22, 2009 the White House announced that President Barack Obama had signed an order to suspend the proceedings of the Guantanamo military commission for 120 days and that the detention facility would be shut down within the year.[8][9] On January 29, 2009 a military judge at Guantanamo rejected the White House request in the case of Abd al-Rahim al-Nashiri, creating an unexpected challenge for the administration as it reviews how America puts Guantanamo detainees on trial.[10]
Guantanamo Bay detention camp - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Can you show that Congress funded and approved GITMO? I couldn't find where it said that.
Are you sure Bush had to go thru congress?