Comments on: Classy thank you notes versus ungrateful Gitmo ingrates

By: Chris

Chris — Sat, 24 Jan 2009 19:05:07 +0000

I think this post was crap. Try being waterboarded and see how thankful you are.

ingrate. lol.

By: blackoutyears

blackoutyears — Fri, 23 Jan 2009 23:36:49 +0000

TB finishing in front of Boston delusional? It’s like 2008 never happened. At least we all know that TB could never beat BOS in the ALCS. Wait…

I think an emptied Gitmo makes an excellent destination for Red Sox Nation.

By: Di

Di — Fri, 23 Jan 2009 20:55:09 +0000

You are both right. And, as a gesture of good faith I think you should each take one of these fine, upstanding individuals into your home.

By: Chicago Voter

Chicago Voter — Fri, 23 Jan 2009 05:47:51 +0000

Comparing former Gitmo inmates to a pro baseball player is a bit much. These guys were denied basic human rights and mentally (and sometimes physically) abused for years. Expecting them to be “classy” and grateful to any US president after all that is unreasonable. If any nation did that to me I would hate it and all of its leaders until the day I died. I’m a proud American but what we did to those people is bad enough that expecting them to praise us for anything we do for them now and in the future is absurd.

By: Jimmy the Dhimmi

Jimmy the Dhimmi — Fri, 23 Jan 2009 02:07:47 +0000

it should hand over to their respective countries all the prisoners it has in various prisons in Iraq, Afghanistan and elsewhere,â€ he said. â€œIf that does not happen the closure of Guantanamo will have no meaning.â€

I think this is actually a correct observation. If everything else is the same, and all they do is move the prisoners from one gitmo to another, and they continue to review detentions with some sort of military tribunal or something other than what American citizens have in federal courts, then what is the point other than a symbolic gesture? The symbolism obviously hasn’t gotten these guys to like America more.