MSNBC POLL: Do You Think GITMO Should Be Shut Down?

[grumpy old fart]

Let's DU it!

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/3096434/

[Benhurst]

1. Done.

55% yes 45% no

[LynnTheDem]

2. There's no "HELL YES WHAT A STUPID QUESTION!!!" response

Amazing how many Americans say "How'd the Gemans allow it to happen"...and then 45% say Gitmo is a good thing. DUHHHH. Maybe when Gitmo becomes a US death camp, rather than just a US concentration camp, maybe those Americans will find some fucking conscience & morality then.

Yes
55%

No
45%

[Hissyspit]

3. Hey, Lynn! 56%/44% now. nt

[Hissyspit]

4. Also no 'It never should have been opened in the first place' response

[LynnTheDem]

12. "Are we happy America has an infamous concentration camp?"

I just read yesterday some 60% of incredibly stupid Americans don't believe human rights are being violated at Gitmo.

:wow:

HELLO STUPID AMERICANS! Gitmo IS a human rights violation!

[SalmonChantedEvening]

5. Done!

They better close it down, at least until they fix that pesky airduct system...

[Immad2]

6. done

Do you think the prison at Guantanamo Bay should be shut down? * 3201 responses

Yes
56%

No
44%

[bobthedrummer]

7. Done. Still at 56% Yes, 44% No

[T Roosevelt]

8. Done

[sabra]

9. here's where the poll was at yesterday:

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_mesg&forum=104&topic_id=3820106&mesg_id=3820106

[Jack Rabbit]

10. No, let's ask the right question

There's been a lot of sentiment to close down Guantanamo. Doing so will barely put a dent in the problem. This isn't the right question to ask.

Guantanamo and the other detentions facilities in Bush's network can stay open as far as I am concerned as long as they cease to be gulags and the regime (or the administration that replaces it after it is removed from power) begins to respect the rights of those held as prisoners of war or as other criminal suspects under the Third and Fourth Geneva Conventions.

That means that torture and humiliating treatment stop, not just at Guantanamo, but all of these prisons.

That means that those detained in combat are recognized as prisoners of war until a court of law (not G. W. Bush) rules otherwise.

That means that any prisoner of war or other detainee charged with any crime will not have his legal rights abridged.

That means that prisoners of war or other combat detainees are not held indefinitely but are repatriated once hostilities cease.

There are about forty facilities in Bush's offshore network of gulags. Guantanamo is only one of them; there have been over a hundred deaths reported of those in US custodies at these facilities, but none of them at Guantanamo.

We don't need to shut down Guantanamo. We need to open Guantanamo and Bush's other gulags to international inspection to assure that those detained are being treated according the Geneva Conventions.

That is what we should be asking.

[liberal N proud]

11. OK - So it should be shut down. Do you think that will solve the problem?

The abuse would just move to some other prison or they would ship the prisoners off to some foreign land that allows torture.
The regime will not allow them to be sent to the United States because then they would have to give them Due Process.