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Nov. 12, 2008 - What is with Guantanamo Bay??

One of the first things President-Elect Obama plans to do when he assumes office is to close Guantanamo Bay detention center. My first reaction was to say what a great idea...that place should have never been in existence. But truthfully, just how much do I know about the place....except for what the media has reported on it? I certainly have not done any research on my own about it. So, I thought I would do a little more research about it to better educate myself on the situation. Or at least as much as I can considering I expect most of the factual information about this place is most likely classified.

In the 1st article that I read, this statement stood out to me: "Many of the 255 Guantanamo detainees are cleared for release, but the Bush administration has been unable to find a country willing to take them." I thought that was so bizarre...why wouldn't they have a place to go...where were they originally from...

Another statement from that article: "Closing the detention camp could create myriad other problems. Of the 255 detainees still held there, experts believe that more than 100 will probably never be charged, because there is little or no evidence linking them to terrorism." So why are they there?

"Yet a number of their home countries have said that they would refuse to take them back. Housing them in the US, or giving them asylum, would be highly controversial." You think? I find it hard to believe allowing them to live in the US would even be an option. Would they be granted citizenship? Given green cards?

And what I have always wondered...why Cuba? Isn't this a communist country with whom we have cut off all ties?

Did no one have any thoughts about what they would do with these people after holding them at the prison? It seems as if grabbing a bunch of people throughout the world was a knee-jerk reaction to the terrorist attack on 9-11.

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