Comments on: OBAMA: My bad, I’m actually going to need a second term to close gitmo and do other stuff you somehow got the idea I was going to do… http://www.kabobfest.com/2009/01/obama-my-bad-im-actually-going-to-need-a-second-term-to-close-gitmo-and-do-other-stuff-you-somehow-got-the-idea-i-was-going-to-do.html The irreverent, activist, often-inappropriate Arab-American (and others) blog. Mon, 13 Feb 2012 05:30:10 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.2.1 By: Johan http://www.kabobfest.com/2009/01/obama-my-bad-im-actually-going-to-need-a-second-term-to-close-gitmo-and-do-other-stuff-you-somehow-got-the-idea-i-was-going-to-do.html/comment-page-1#comment-2439 Johan Mon, 12 Jan 2009 07:12:00 +0000 http://kabobfest.yamansalahi.com/?p=549#comment-2439 "Where exactly do you send people that you can't just hold onto forever, but that no country wants to take back?"<br />Obviously you start to follow international law. The first step would be to free them, the second step would be giving them a refuge and the third to take financial, medical etc. responsibility for the inhumane treatment the former administration has put upon them.<br /><br />Many of the prisoners are civilians that were seemingly randomly abducted from foreign soil without any support from international conventions. It's no different from the Somalia pirates, the guerillla fighters in the niger delta or the Farc in legality. “Where exactly do you send people that you can’t just hold onto forever, but that no country wants to take back?”
Obviously you start to follow international law. The first step would be to free them, the second step would be giving them a refuge and the third to take financial, medical etc. responsibility for the inhumane treatment the former administration has put upon them.

Many of the prisoners are civilians that were seemingly randomly abducted from foreign soil without any support from international conventions. It’s no different from the Somalia pirates, the guerillla fighters in the niger delta or the Farc in legality.

]]> By: Sean http://www.kabobfest.com/2009/01/obama-my-bad-im-actually-going-to-need-a-second-term-to-close-gitmo-and-do-other-stuff-you-somehow-got-the-idea-i-was-going-to-do.html/comment-page-1#comment-2440 Sean Sun, 11 Jan 2009 23:11:00 +0000 http://kabobfest.yamansalahi.com/?p=549#comment-2440 <b>Where exactly do you send people that you can't just hold onto forever, but that no country wants to take back?</b><br /><br />Anywhere but Guantanamo. Where exactly do you send people that you can’t just hold onto forever, but that no country wants to take back?

Anywhere but Guantanamo.

]]> By: Joel http://www.kabobfest.com/2009/01/obama-my-bad-im-actually-going-to-need-a-second-term-to-close-gitmo-and-do-other-stuff-you-somehow-got-the-idea-i-was-going-to-do.html/comment-page-1#comment-2441 Joel Sun, 11 Jan 2009 22:31:00 +0000 http://kabobfest.yamansalahi.com/?p=549#comment-2441 Lol, god damn Qui Qui, do you know anything about how the world works OUTSIDE of the lovely confines of a University? Lol, god damn Qui Qui, do you know anything about how the world works OUTSIDE of the lovely confines of a University?

]]> By: Joe http://www.kabobfest.com/2009/01/obama-my-bad-im-actually-going-to-need-a-second-term-to-close-gitmo-and-do-other-stuff-you-somehow-got-the-idea-i-was-going-to-do.html/comment-page-1#comment-2442 Joe Sun, 11 Jan 2009 18:38:00 +0000 http://kabobfest.yamansalahi.com/?p=549#comment-2442 What MILF said.<br /><br />Where exactly do you send people that you can't just hold onto forever, but that no country wants to take back?<br /><br />This isn't the world's easiest issue. What MILF said.

Where exactly do you send people that you can’t just hold onto forever, but that no country wants to take back?

This isn’t the world’s easiest issue.

]]> By: MILF http://www.kabobfest.com/2009/01/obama-my-bad-im-actually-going-to-need-a-second-term-to-close-gitmo-and-do-other-stuff-you-somehow-got-the-idea-i-was-going-to-do.html/comment-page-1#comment-2443 MILF Sun, 11 Jan 2009 14:46:00 +0000 http://kabobfest.yamansalahi.com/?p=549#comment-2443 Qui Qui, I hope you realize that closing down gitmo is a lot more involved and complex, as Obama stated, than you are really aware of.<br /><br />Perhaps you should spend less time day dreaming about hooking up with revolutionaries and more time actually becoming knowledgable about the issues which you often write about. Qui Qui, I hope you realize that closing down gitmo is a lot more involved and complex, as Obama stated, than you are really aware of.

Perhaps you should spend less time day dreaming about hooking up with revolutionaries and more time actually becoming knowledgable about the issues which you often write about.

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