Should Gitmo be shut down...and the prisoners be brought to the U.S. for trial...?

Question

Gates Reportedly Wanted to Close Gitmo
Reuters
WASHINGTON (March 23) - Soon after becoming defense secretary, Robert Gates argued the U.S. prison at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, should be closed because the international community would view any trials there as tainted, The New York Times reported on Thursday.

Instead, Gates, who became Pentagon chief in December, argued that terrorism suspects should be tried in the United States to make the proceedings more credible, the Times said.

The United States has brought charges against just one of the 385 foreign captives at Guantanamo. Australian David Hicks, 31, has been accused of providing material support for terrorism by fighting for al Qaeda in Afghanistan .

Hicks is charged under a new system of war crimes trials authorized by the U.S. Congress last year.

The United States has declared its intention to try 60 to 80 of the 385 foreign captives held at Guantanamo, including 14 "high-value" prisoners sent there in September from secret CIA prisons.

Some administration lawyers oppose bringing the captives into the United States because that would give them more constitutional and statutory rights, the newspaper said.

The Bush administration has insisted it needs to hold and try suspects at Guantanamo as part of its war against terrorism launched after the September 11 attacks on the United States.

Answer 1

Gitmo
should be cracked wide open under a full scale International Investigation Commitee with full access given to a panel of Civilian oversight panelists that have NO ties to the current administration OR the military !!!

This place is totally counter to all of this country's claims of integrity in it's actions and is the largest "sticking" point to many nations seeing us as a rabid aggressor that speaks one thing in the open and does entirely different stuff under covert cover !!!!

Answer 2

i'm going to play like a leftest in answering your question: Why are the observed as GITMO prisoners instead of Prisoners of conflict or terrorist who prefer to kill human beings? Why are not they observed as cowards for battling in the back of women human beings and young toddlers? Why are they not shot as traitors under the regulations of the Geneva convention? What area of they like to kill us do not you already know? with the intention to answer your question without the spin: The cowardly traitors are secret agent's and prisoners of conflict and should not be allowed interior the U. S. nor get a civilian trial.

Answer 3

Yes it SHOULD be shut down.
In Australia we want David Hicks back.
He is an Australian. As a young man, he acted like an idiot, like many young men. He went and was with people like Bin Laden, he didn't know better.
The Americans arrested him and have tortured him and kept him with-out trial in Guantanamo Bay for years and years.
His father, friends, lawyer etc have campaigned, petitions have been made etc. Unfortunately our Prime Minister is so subservient ( he would probably wipe Bush's bottom if asked) to Bush he lets injustice happen rather than demand freedom for David Hicks.
It is a disgrace.

Answer 4

No . They get better treatment than Americans in prison . They wouldn't like prison in the U.S. They will be much safer in Gitmo ..it's a Holiday Inn for terroists .

Answer 5

If that happens, the prisoners will tell the world what happened to them in U.S. custody. So if I were Gates, I'd get someone else to start my car in the future!

Answer 6

I think it's better to keep mistreating them and paying out huge amounts of cash to shut them up after they find out they're innocent.

Answer 7

wtf