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Should the US close the military prison on Guantanamo Bay?

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Yes		51%	181 votes	Total: 354 votes
No		49%	173 votes	Total: 354 votes

Yes

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by Jonathan Young

Much like virtually every other Bush administration creation, Guantanamo Bay is an American embarassment, a symbol of corruption and stupidity conveniently located beyond the re...read more
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by Les Jacobs

Yes, because Guantanamo Bay is almost certainly holding innocent civilians behind bars. We know this because some, possibly many, of the captives were turned in by bounty hunter...read more
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by Carol Gioia

We should close the prison on Guantanamo Bay. Doing so does not mean all prisoners should be released. If there are individuals who are a threat to our country, they should be...read more
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by Dave Beynon

The military prison on Guantanamo Bay needs to be shut down. If American is to continue to claim to be a land of opportunity and freedom and continue to pretend to have any...read more
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by John Cooper

There is a well-rehearsed bias that claims that liberals are "soft" on what ever matter Republicans want some leeway on at the moment. I am a liberal, but I am not "soft." Gu...read more
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by Ted Sherman

Yes, but not because of all the liberal mewling. The worst thing about keeping those creepy terrorists cooped up is the expense to US taxpayers. Those guys never lived in cleane...read more
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by Randy Scott

Up front it should be known that I am not an American. That does not preclude me from having an opinion on the question and it might well be different from the views of American...read more
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by Anthony Gainey

Yes, though I hate to agree with Ted Sherman. But then again, Ted doesn't quite seem to agree even with himself. He berates "liberal mewling," then procedes to agree with it, ...read more
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by Terrill Sarter

We should have a trial and be done with it. Why are we spending all this money to keep these people around? For some of them its been 5 years. Anything they may or may not ...read more
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by hibernianscribe

In January 2002, the Bush administration created a detention camp at the Guantanamo Bay Naval Base in Cuba to imprison the worst terrorism suspects. This facility has become an ...read more
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by Matt McCormack

We pride ourselves about our free liberal and democratic country and strongly stand up for our own human rights. Our legal system is based on the premise that you are innocent b...read more
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by Graham Lear

Should Guantanamo bay prison be closed well in my opinion it should not even be open what a bunch of cowards this bush administration are if they are so convinced that the peopl...read more
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by Paul Dice

Yes it should be closed. The current US administrations policy is similar to the Interment without trial the UK government used in Northern Ireland and was one of the biggest ...read more
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by Emily Ackerland

Guantanamo Bay is destined for the American Hall of Shame. There it will grovel with the genocidal policies against Native Americans enacted in the name of Manifest Destiny. T...read more
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by Nikolaus Federmann

The purpose of the Guantanamo Bay tribunal system is to prosecute foreign enemy combatants who have participated in terrorist acts against the United States in foreign countries...read more
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by Archy

Gitmo has stunk since the beginning of the Afgan War. I don't understand how the American Government, and by association the American People, can allow prisoners do be detained...read more
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by Jimmi Brown

Guantanamo...the place where people had never been taken to court to prove if they are terrorists or not..one of them is journalist whose job was to go to Afghanistan and do his...read more
18 of 22
by Clinton Warricker

As to why the U.S. government has a base on "enemy" soil, well I don't know. Why imprison people for years on end with no trial is beyond me also. They need to prove that the pe...read more
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by Robert Findlay

The military base at Guantanamo Bay should be shut down. It will never be in the interest of the United States to appear secretive and vengeful, but this is the exact image cre...read more
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by Emma Bacon

We need to end all types of imprisonment without charge. The world is not going to be a safer place by locking up 'supposed' criminals. We do not even know that these people a...read more

No

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by Ian Essling

Guantanamo Bay is vital for the survival of our country. Each captured terrorist imprisoned there is one less threat to our country, and one less extremist that is out there re...read more
2 of 18
by Lamont Webb

I vote neither yes or no, on the subject of closing down Getmo. However, I would like to present one problem that I see, based from experience, if the base were to be shut down....read more
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by J.R. Anthony

Okay. Who's being put in Guantanamo Bay? People who want to kill American citizens. War combatants. People who, according to the Geneva Conventions, we would be well within our ...read more
4 of 18
by James Coles

Guantanamo Bay detention center should not be closed...in fact, it should be expanded so that all EPWs, unlawful combatants, terrorists & suspect terrorist prisoners can be kept...read more
5 of 18
by Renee Dawson

"...I'm laying down my gun and I'm hanging up my boots....So lay me down, in that open field out on the end of town, and know my soul is where my Momma always prayed that it wou...read more
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by Amber Lafoy

No, I don't believe that we should close the prison. The reason that I say this is some of the prisoners that are there I help put there. I was in Iraq from Feb 2003 till April ...read more
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by C.F. Stewart

We have reached a point where civil liberties surpass the rights of the victims, or should I say...potential victims? Gitmo serves the purpose it was designed for; to keep mindl...read more
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by Paul Tyrrell

Guantanamo Bay Naval Base is the front line of battle for regional security and protection. It protects America from a massive influx of drug trafficking, terrorism, and offers ...read more
9 of 18
by Phil Hill

The idea of housing suspected terrorists who hate the United States on mainland USA is anathema - to them and the citizens of America. Who wants them defiling the Land of the Fr...read more
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by Timothy Frazier

I haven't lost a single minute of sleep worrying about how much is too much in our interrogation methods at Guantanamo Bay. The Guantanamo Bay facility is a brilliant strateg...read more
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by Rebecca Williams

No, I feel that with the ongoing threat of terrorism the prison should stay open as long as the war continues, letting it be a place for terrorists only, who seem to be or is a ...read more
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by Diane Mccain

No, I do not believe that the Guantanamo Bay Prison facility should be closed. During War time, all prisoners of war, suspected terrorists, captured enemy combatants must be ho...read more
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by Foxbaron

Where would you like us to put these people, in a jail near you? If so, give us your address and we'll consider transferring them to your neighborhood. These people are not ...read more
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by Matthew Mcguire

Why is this a debate? The answer is no. Guantanamo Bay is one of our most valuable assets in the military intelligence right now. There might come a time when the prison is ...read more
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by Memo

Ok, now I'm going to start by saying that my reasoning for this isn't because I'm a pussy or love these boy loving bastards in the least. There should be no closing of Guantanam...read more
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by mushky tennenhaus

We are living in dangerous unstable times. Many people are out to get us, to harm, maim and kill our men, women and children. This loathing hatred "they," the haters posses is n...read more
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by Billy Barnes

Humanitarian conditions should be the priority for the Guantanamo Bay Prisoners. Why should these prisoners be packed in like sardines in a can. From what I have seen on the new...read more
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by NetJr

The prison at Guantanamo Bay must not be closed. The political debate "for" closing it is largely for two reasons. One to make our President and his administration look worse ...read more

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