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Twenty-six prisoners at Guantánamo remain detained without charge or trial, including the eight men represented in court Wednesday, who have been at Guantánamo between 10 and 16 years. Two of them have been cleared for release by a government review panel. Lawyers from the Center for Constitutional Rights, along with other attorneys, are challenging the prisoners’ detention both as a violation of due process and also under the laws of war as dictated by the authorization for the use of military force, or AUMF
The government countered that as long as operations continue against Al Qaeda and the Taliban in Afghanistan, the original theater of the war on terror, the authority underpinning the AUMF still holds. When Judge Thomas Hogan asked if, in the government’s view, the war could last 100 years, Justice Department attorney Ronald Wiltsie said, “Yes, we could hold them for 100 years if the conflict lasts 100 years.”
could you remind me who took it upon him self to shut down this place and was one of his promises to the people in his campaign
They set up GITMO and now with a veritable flood of Karma
At what point do you stop trying to pass fault off somewhere else?
originally posted by: Southern Guardian
a reply to: pheonix358
They set up GITMO and now with a veritable flood of Karma
Had you actually done your research you would know that GITMO military detention centre was set up by the Bush Administration with the full approval of congress in 2002? You also understand this administration, Trump's administration, pledges to continue it as with the Obama administration?
At what point do you stop trying to pass fault off somewhere else?
originally posted by: Dr UAE
could you remind me who took it upon him self to shut down this place and was one of his promises to the people in his campaign
You mean Trump? Who ran under the GOP flag and who has the backing of the GOP congress?
He's passing blame.
Trump is president now, the GOP have control of congress, they have the power to close the detention centre. They choose not to.
This is a fact. We can argue all day that previous administrations and both parties have responsibility but that doesn't change that very fact.
originally posted by: Southern Guardian
Can we just come to a consensus that Gitmo is a massive stain on the country and the constitution? This is down right disgusting. The place was a stain under Bush, it was a stain under Obama, and now it's a stain under Trump and this administration makes no bones about preserving Gitmo at its core function. Imagine that? Being held, jailed, without trial? Without a proper defense? for the rest of your life.
Yeah. Don't you wish Obama would have closed it now, when he had Congress? That should tell you something.
How? Trump is not responsible for starting it?
They are enemy combatants.
Where the OP was the any debate on who started it?
This administration makes no qualms in continuing GITMO and holding people there indefinitely and without proper trial and hearing.
If I use another person's gun to murder somebody after that person used a gun to murder another person, am I innocent? Or do I lay complete blame on the other person that gave me the gun?
To Whataboutism!