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Originally posted by Sticks
George Bush said he wanted to close it down, but it is not that easy.

As for people detained without trial, if they were to be put on trial, then you would compromise intelligence sources.

We have seen that in this country where defence lawyers demanded details of prosecution witnesses and locations of hidden cameras, forcing the prosecution to drop cases to protect witnesses and intelligence gathering.

What would you prefer, an anomally which upsets a few lefty groups or more 9/11s and 7/7s?

This is a war on terrorism and those people are there for a reason

Hey Sticks long time no argue. hehe...
I don't think you could possibly know that they are in their for a "reason" given they haven't been convicted. No court hearing, no evidence put forward, no chance to defend themselves against allegation, no idea even what the allegations are and no right to a lawyer. I'm not defending terrorists... those that are can rot in hell but only a small percentage are alqaeda. The rest were picked up pretty randomly. Afghans sold out other Afghans that they were feuding with for the prospect of cash payments in US dollors from US troops.

I understand your "secrecy" argument, it's been trotted out over and over again, it doesn't back up your statement " those people are there for a reason". The quality of intelligent gained by torturing captives has proved to be very poor.

Oh and your point about George Bush wanting to close it down is questionable .... he was the prez that set it up. Saying he wants to close them down would mean he believes the whole idea was a mistake and another admission of a screw up on his part. He would never say that nor would that vice prez Cheney let him. Where did you hear that?