Romney calls for doubling Guantanamo population

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Debating the treatment of foreign detainees at Tuesday night's debate, former Massachusetts Gov. Mitt Romney said he thought the US should "double" the number of prisoners held in Guantanamo Bay Cuba.

In the same exchange, former New York Mayor Rudy Giuliani noted again his service in New York following the Sept. 11 attacks and said he would support interrogators using a wide range of means to elicit confessions from suspected terrorists. Moderator Chris Wallace asked if Giuliani would support the use of waterboarding -- a controversial interrogation tactic some say is torture because it makes detainees believe they are drowning.

"Whatever they can think of," Giuliani said.

Romney said suspected terrorists need to be kept off American soil and he supported the use of "enhanced interrogation techniques" with the approval of the president.

http://rawstory.com/news/2007/Romney_calls_for_doubling_Guantanamo_population_0515.html

[Erika]

1. Romney is an idiot

Neither he nor his 5 boys were in the military. Chickenhawk supremes.

[Raksha]

2. Doubling the Gitmo population? That can be easily managed.

Let's see...there's Bush, Cheney, Gonzales, Rove...it wouldn't take long at all to come up with the numbers.

[TwilightGardener]

3. Jesus, even SecDef Gates has expressed the hope of CLOSING Gitmo.

The GOP is moving so fucking far to the right they're making Pat Buchanan look like Russ Feingold.

[xchrom]

4. ''enhanced interrogation techniques'' --

conservative cool speak for torture.

romney is the barbarian at the gate.

that phrase alone lets you know how a presidency with him at the steering wheel would go.