why don't the American close down Guantanamo prison which is disgrace on the forehead of humanity.?

Answer 1

Because America needs prisons to detain those who are to be tortured when interrogated. If prisoners are held on American soil, they must be interrogated under the restrictions of the American laws, Constitution, and Geneva Convention. If prisoners are held in other countries that are not restricted by little things like civil rights and civil liberties, then they can be tortured "legally."

That answer may sound harsh. But, unfortunately, since WWII, The American Government has used other countries for this expressed purpose.

Answer 2

Okay, and do what with those prisoners? Honestly I was for treating them as POWs, which means there are no trials & they are not released under any circumstances until all of Islamic extremism surrenders or we declare the war over. THEN they would be individually tried in international courts where secret intelligence information could still be presented. The only concern has been that you are not allowed to question POWs beyond name/rank/serial number. Also, if they were captured w/o uniform then according to convention & the laws of war you can just execute every one of them at any time (I'd assume there'd be a trial to ensure they were combatants, but that's all you need). I'm not sure what you'd want us to do. We can change what we call these people and legally execute all of them right now, or we can keep them there with more legal rights than any prisoner in the history of time has ever had. I probably wouldn't have gone the same route as the President has, but I don't see what alternatives we have now.

Answer 3

He's starting to change his tune. This is what he said earlier this week:

VIENNA (Reuters) - President George W. Bush, seeking to reassure Europeans over the treatment of prisoners at Guantanamo Bay, said on Wednesday that he wanted eventually to shut the prison and send inmates back to their home countries.

Austrian Chancellor Wolfgang Schuessel said Europeans were calling for the closure of Guantanamo Bay, but they had also received a commitment "no torture, no extraordinary or extraterritorial positions to deal with the terrorists."

U.S. forces captured hundreds of foreigners abroad following the September 11, 2001 attacks on suspicion of belonging to al Qaeda or the Taliban, but almost all have been held without charges -- some of them for more than four years.

"I'd like to end Guantanamo. I'd like it to be over with," Bush said at a news conference after talks with European Union leaders. "One of the things we will do is we'll send people back to their home countries."

Answer 4

It is not a Prison, it was a Naval Base that they don't use anymore because of Nuclear powered ships. The only reason they haven't relinquished the land back to Cuba is because of their hatred of Fidel Castro.

Answer 5

Why don’t we close it down? Because Bush and his crew are IMMORAL idiots! Here in the USA, we used to be the world's champion of human rights. But we have fallen off that pedestal and now have no basis to complain if US troops are tortured.

Wait, we didn’t fall off the pedestal of morality, Bush jumped off the pedestal!

Answer 6

we'D have nowhere to put the rats we dig out of the sand