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New Homes for Gitmo Prisoners

So the new president wants to shut down Gitmo.

Great move.

Hmmm...what to do with the prisoners though. Oh, I know, let's see if anyone else wants them!

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KEVIN Rudd has left open the possibility of Australia taking former inmates from the prison camp at Guantanamo Bay.

But he warned that any US request for an inmate to come would be subject to legal criteria and assessed on a case-by-case basis, The Australian reports.

As the Greens warned the Prime Minister he faced a political backlash if he accepted detainees held in the US military jail at Guantanamo Bay in Cuba, a spokesman for Mr Rudd confirmed US authorities had approached Australia and other countries about resettling the detainees.

I say you can keep your problem to yourself and solve it yourselves. Australians in general do not seem to support the actions of the US government with regard to Gitmo, so I can't imagine anyone supporting this new suggestion.

Send them back to their own country or put them on trial as they should have been in the first place. Provide them with the justice that your countrymen pride yourselves on.

Just don't try and send them here. We don't want them. We didn't create the problem. We don't support what you've done.

Great idea. Put them in the middle of the Outback. :D

aka The Bush.

I concur with Ali. Give them a trial, sort it out from there.
Gitmo is the flip side of America's belief in freedom. As was the American apartheid less than 50 years ago.

I'm not an America-basher as many posts here will attend, but honestly chaps, there is a nightmare side to the American dream.

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Originally Posted by Sundae Girl (Post 516845)

I'm not an America-basher as many posts here will attend, but honestly chaps, there is a nightmare side to the American dream.

I must agree. Now if we can just convince all those illegal aliens to believe it we might have a solution.

eh, on Gitmo I have made my feelings known numerous times. Sending them down under is not a solution. If that were the case I would advocate sending them to Greenland or Antartica.

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Originally Posted by Aliantha (Post 516780)

Just don't try and send them here. We don't want them. We didn't create the problem. We don't support what you've done.

Well our second option was Georgia....

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Originally Posted by piercehawkeye45 (Post 516885)

Well our second option was Georgia....

That would be a bad idea. Most of the redneck yahoo's here would not treat them as humanely as they have been treated up to this point.