New Homes for Gitmo Prisoners

[Aliantha]

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!

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.