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In reply to the discussion: Over 130 Prisoners on Hunger Strike, Dozens Being Force Fed [View all]mike_c
(36,213 posts)38. I'm tired of partisan arguing about whom to assign the blame....
Guantanamo is America's shame. It brings shame to us all, equally. I heard the lawyer representing 11 of the inmates on Democracy Now! this morning lamenting as long as Obama spends time practicing his WH Correspondent's dinner jokes instead of trying to resolve the Guantanamo issue there will be no progress toward erasing that shame. The lawyer also said that he is convinced that some inmates will die, that the U.S. government has no interest in preventing their deaths. He described the forced feeding using the largest size tube available just to make it hurt more. In our names.
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The torture described in the Constitution Project Task Force's Report on Detainee Treatment
AnotherMcIntosh
Apr 2013
#2
too bad the a-holes who could do something about G'tmo, i.e.the Republican House
librechik
Apr 2013
#3
yeah, NO. You can't relocate these guys without money. TONS of money. Obama doesn't have that power.
librechik
Apr 2013
#7
Gitmo is open to the sea. If Obama really wants to do something, such as releasing those
AnotherMcIntosh
Apr 2013
#29
What a pity that Obama cares so much but just doesn't have the power to do anything.
AnotherMcIntosh
Apr 2013
#6
But, he could order the DOJ to arrest the torturers and bring them to trial.
Tierra_y_Libertad
Apr 2013
#11
which torture? I believe he already ordered torture to stop in our military--
librechik
Apr 2013
#20
If it's not torture, then the perpetrators should have nothing to fear from a trial.
Tierra_y_Libertad
Apr 2013
#23
I am sure to get a TS or at least get hidden if I said what I think about Obama...
L0oniX
Apr 2013
#16
Why is that human rights crime still standing? Most of the detainees there have been
sabrina 1
Apr 2013
#26