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I am delighted that GITMO is closing. It's a stain on America that it ever existed. Innocent people rotted years of their lives away in that hell hole and then were released without apology. When the American government pays Iraqis and others to hand over terrorists, innocent people are bound to suffer. As for the guilty, they have been so tortured for so long that it is impossible for their trials to have any meaning in the civilized world. If Nuremberg worked for trying the Nazis, I do not see why something similar could not have worked for the terrorists. By ignoring international laws and our own code of ethics, we severely damaged our standing in the world.

The war on terror is an ideological war. Whoever abandons theirs first loses. I don't see the terrorists waivering...why should we? What you people don't get is that Bush lost us the war the minute he threw everything we stand for as a country and a people out the window. Are we such pu-es and so unsure of our fundamental beliefs in human rights, equality, decency, freedom, etc., that the first sign of something to fear comes along our spines melt or are we proud enough, strong enough and possessed of sufficient integrity to stand by what we believe in the face of such threats? That was the test we failed. We cannot afford to fail it again.

And by all means lets put all of the prisoners in our already overcrowded prison system! Just what we need, more ethnic groups to form more gangs! Thats the ticket!........NOT!!!!!!!!

We need to keep Gitmo open...

...for the right wing conservative confederate Bush-loving, Obama-hating racist TRAITORS in THIS country...

I am not a Bush hater nor Obama hater..so don't think I have an agenda here like most people. For all these people that think Obama is going to bring change is crazy. I honestly believe he wants to make change (good ones) however when he actually learns what the REAL siutation is.....he then can understand why it was put in place. He wanted out of Iraq right away...aint happening. With Gitmo, he is closing it, but why it hasn't it been close right away?? Cause all of these terrorists go back to where thy came from..ie..new talibn chief. With the spending bill, I feel Obama really wanted no earmarks. However, in real politics, you have to give certain things for votes. This whole change thing was a myth. Like I metioned before, I think Obama wanted to atually change the way it was. But he is playing in the big boy world. It's the same stoy people, it' just he a Democrat.

Such vitriol from posters.....pathetic to say the least....there won't be a conclusive answer to this problem....the current administration will hold a middle-ground position until either a new administration is formed or the homeland is o'er trod.....

The vitriol in these posts amazes me....let's just pull our troops out of Guantanamo Bay, then make a parking lot out of the whole island. Solves multiple problems.

These prisoners better not be brought into the United States...

Wow! It's great to know so many liberals will be protesting my cozy detention if I should ever get caught trying to murder people in foriegn countries!!

Gitmo is not closed and will not be closed. They are just moving prisoners to other facilities, spreading them around, so that the MSM will not have a straw man to attack.

Change fools belive in.

Ben in Illinois – You're a big fan of those guys who turned the Department of Justice in the 'Department of Evrything Bush Does is Legal and Constitutional!', aren't you? That's exactly the poor argument used by them to justify GITMO, and it's a spin and twist on everything the Constitution stands for.
To put it simple: WE are the GOOD guys because we don't act like the BAD guys, if we act like the BAD guys we can't pretend to be the GOOD guys without being either hypocritical or schizoid.
The 'legal procedures' that they created for GITMO has been ruled illegal (in light of the Military Penal Code) and unconstitutional, it is very likely that many of the proofs that we have against those who are guilty of anything won't stand in any court that honors the American legal system and therefore SOMETHING has to be done with that big mess left by BUSH to anyone that respect the Laws and the Constitution of the United States of America!
And liking you or not, something is being done BY THE BOOK!

Yeah, why don't we house them in spare White House bedrooms?

Sniffit: thank you. Your points are right on. Sadly, many don't get it.

The other day I was watching Obama’s 50 day scoreboard in CNN. One of the items was closing GITMO.
Closing GITMO without knowing what to do with the prisoners; an A+?
Another item in the list was ending the Iraq war. With more than 100 people dead or wounded in Iraq during this week alone; and another A+?
Recovered the economy; another A+ and goes on the list.
Race for the 100 day scoreboard is fine; but only hope this whole rosy scoreboard doesn’t come crumbling down on the 101st day.

Also, with respect to "The people at G-MO aren't your friendly next door neighbors who were "kidnapped" one day for doing nothing wrong."

What happened to innocent until proven guilty? Hmmmm? That's an inalienable right we claim to believe in as well and the reason these people weren't being tried is because we didn't have sufficient proof for a conviction in the majority of the cases. It is circular logic to start from the premise that they are already guilty and that's why they were there in the first place, i.e., you'r ejsut rationalizing what you know to be an abandonment of our principles.

Bush's system of Stalinist-type prison camps when mostly nameless prisoners, some of whom are children, are tortured while they wait for a chance to be convicted by a kangaroo court during which they are not really allowed to fully defend themselves is a HUGE stain on our traditions (and Guantanamo is only the prison camp we know about, we know that many prisoners are held in secret gulags).

Of course, Stalin's legacy hasn't really hurt the image of Russia's new post-comunist dictatorship, and communist China owns almost the entire US economy.

@ Ben in Illinois

The Geneva Conventions are entirely irrelevant. The point is threefold:

1. Torturing these people and not affording them representation or a fair trial violates their inalienable human rights and it does not require a piece of paper for you to understand that, accept it and act accordingly.

2. We, as a nation and as a society, claim to believe in those inallienable human rights and have based the existence of our country thereon. If we can somehow justify abandoning our core principles with these people, who is next? The citizenry? Our privacy rights on our cell phones perhaps?

3. It has a paradoxical affect. Torturing these people and holding them indefinitely without representation or a trial FUELS TERRORISM and anti-American sentiment. It doesn't make us safer. There's a reason Bush and Cheney are the poster children for terrorist recruitment.

Truth – a fool am I? You are a so-called American that doesn't even beleive in America's system of laws. What does that make you? I'll tell you what it makes you; a coward. Our laws aren't to be applied when we see fit. Our laws, and how we apply them, are at the very heart of who we are. What's the point of being American if, when times are tough, we act no better than those who attack us?

Well, "Truth," as I said before, you too will die one day. Will you live and die free and proud like an American? Or will you just collapse from a heart attack, after eating your fifth bag of pork rinds, cowered under your bed because the boogy man is coming.

Grow a pair, will you?

Get it right you right wing cowards! President hasn't released ANYONE yet, as usual, lies from the completely ignorant!

There is no doubt that there are some pretty wicked people being held at Gitmo. But nobody has done a thing to figure out which ones they are. Sure they beat em and tortured them, and the prisoners were not nice after that....gee, I wonder why? What Obama has decided is we will no longer be a nation of cowards, Who stoop to the level of terrorist tactics. We will, for a change, protect our way of life by NOT sacrifcing it, nor our morals. Returning to our honorable founding principals!

It takes true courage to take the highground, fighting with integrity and honor, rather than the cowardly dirt bag tactics imposed by the previous administration, in which we sacrifice our way of life in order to preserve it. Only a coward would endorse the stone age logic that is exhibited at Gitmo.

The new Taliban leader is a former Gitmo detainee, go figure. Where does Obama intend on putting the Gitmo detainees if he closes Gitmo? Obviously, you can't release them; the go back to Al Q'eda or become a Taliban leader. We'll take a hit again, probably gbigger than 911.

The Prisoners of Gitmo should have a trial only those who are not GUILTY should be release .BUSH should get a fair tryal also.

Note to CNN headline editors: It's not GITMO, it's Gitmo. Gitmo is a nickname, not an acronymn.

AIPAC firmly in control! March 11th, 2009 12:13 pm ET – The looney farm just called, stay where you are, they'll be around to pick you up soon.

No, the truly GENOCIDAL ones are the fanatical muslims. The just plain stupid ones are the ones who think Israel is the bad guy, and supports this closing. To all you who think this is a good thing, let these people move in next to you, not me thanks. I usually don't like to wake up to the sound of anti-America speak or bombs going off.

I hope Barry Soetoro is willing to house the GITMO terrorists in his house on Pennsylvania Avenue.

What's always amazing is how the right who insist that the founding documents were a gift from God are so quick to disavow what's in those documents at the first hint of problems. Yes, grab some people off the street and send them to Gitmo or to be tortured, suspend free speech, call anyone a traitor who disagrees. It's sad what a lack of education is bringing upon this country: we're rotting from within. There was a movie recently about the US in a couple of hundred years where we had a pro-wrestler as President and all the trailer trash people outnumbered the educated and voted accordingly. Bad movie, good points though.

I sincerly feel sory for those who choose ignorance over the possiability of knowledge, who choose bigotry over acceptance, like to pick and choose what parts of the US Constitution and Bill of Rights they like but disreguard the rest, and choose irrationality over rational thought. But for some reason I am as a moth to the flame as I keep comming here only to see the the same hatefull, willfully ignorant comments.

@Beverly: try to educate yourself before posting idiotic comments. The people at G-MO aren't your friendly next door neighbors who were "kidnapped" one day for doing nothing wrong.

Before talking about human rights abuse and our responsibility toward these people, familiarize yourself with the Geneva Conventions. You will see that as soon as somebody who is not in a recognized military and is not sanctioned by a soveriegn nation takes up arms and commits war crimes, they are not afforded many rights ESPECIALLY not the same rights citizens are.

I'm a former Gitmo detainee and I can guarantee no one wants to leave. I spent 6 years there serving for war crimes against my neighbor Steve. Now what you don't know is that steve is an idiot and deserved to have war crimes enacted on him. But I loved it at Gitmo – plenty of sun, decent bedding, and unlimited portions for all meals. not sure why we would want to close it . . .

@ Kevin in Ohio

I like your idea, except I think we should send them to a country where they'll be tortured to death. I mean we may as well get a last bit of information out of these extremists

I would like to get rid of GITMO too but what do you do with these people? You can't give them US constitutional rights, you can't free them and you can't trust other countries with them. As much as I don't care for the GITMO issue I think that it might be the most practical solution. Give them military trials and make them stay at GITMO.

TO: Reality King:
Why do you not tell the truth in your posts? Why do you lie?????
1. Obama has not released any "prisoners" – not one!!!
2. The Supreme Court did not rule what you said they ruled!!!!
Again – why do you lie.
1. Bush released "prisoners" – why did he???
2. Obama willhave them tried
3. If any are terrorosts they will recieve justice.
4. Under Bush everyone was held. Some were probably terrorists, some were terrorists – and some probly were not terrorists – but you can bet they all will become terrorists now.

blocking anyone

who is critical of ISRAEL's GENOCIDAL crimes against humanity in general and against the palestinians in particular

holding any power in washington and beyond.

AIPAC, and their boy LIE-berman, just blocked charles freeman's nomination as the head of intelligence business.

it's just that simple.

the intelligence business worldwide, never mind in the US, is

thoroughly infiltrated and dominated by AIPAC and its allies.

just like the loan-sharking business and the message-manipulating business.

So, Obama is closing Gitmo and just releasing all these guys into freddom.

Where do you morons get your information? My lord, the right wing propaganda program (pogrom) is so depressing, frightening really.

The Taliban clown was not released by Obama. Please go back and bury your heads in EX-VP Chaney's rear end- for the sake of the rest of the world.

Wow, what a great change to help the security of the United States. They have already shown that the terrorists there feel that the attack on the WTC was justified and "blessed" How on earth is setting them free going to keep us safe? It isn't. Obama is pandering to the world rather than ensuring the safety of Americans on American soil – and don't go and twist this into domestic attacks.

Concrned in MA -

What you say is only half true.

The United States did put out a long-term (99 year, I believe) lease on Guantanamo Bay, for the purpose of establishing the military base there.

HOWEVER, The United States has not paid the lease since the 1960s (I believe), when the cuban government under Fidel Castro began refusing the American payment and demanding Guantanamo Bay back.

If Cuba would accept the American lease payments, than we would be paying again.

Concrned in MA -

What you say is only half true.

The United States did put out a long-term (99 year, I believe) lease on Guantanamo Bay, for the purpose of establishing the military base there.

HOWEVER, The United States has not paid the lease since the 1960s (I believe), when the cuban government under Fidel Castro began refusing the American payment and demanding Guantanamo Bay back.

If Cuba would accept the American lease payments, than we would be paying again.

To all those pointing out that SOME of those who had been released became terrorist (and I wonder why...) or have returned to their terrorist activities: since the current president has not released ANYONE yet, then you please point the fault to those who really did it, i.e. the former presidency.
There is the problem that there are guys that are really guilty of comitting terrorist crimes (or at the very least to give some kind of support to them), but either the proofs against them were obtained illegally (check what 'fruit of the poisoned tree' means to our legal system), or there isn't any at all. Plus those who, after being prosecuted, will spend some time (perhaps for life) behind bars will have to be taken somewhere.
In Spain, where those lunatics of ETA have been acting for decades, the most dangerous terrorists are mingled with their most dangerous 'common' criminals. It's not a perfect system, but it works.

And so this envoy will make sure that every detainee leaving gets the name of a good liberal, anti-America lawyer to help with the lawsuit they'll file. Heck, I'm surprised the Dems didn't include the detainees as getting a bailout. Hey, wasn't it Murtha who said his state would be happy to take the detainees?

And no Sue, the first step is getting your facts straight. Your inaccurracy just shows your ignorance. You're almost as idiotic as Jeff in Illinois.

This is about cleaning up Bush's unlawful mess.

Either charge Bush with war crimes under the Geneva Convention or release these prisoners, the WORLD is calling for one or the other. Read the laws of the Geneva Convention and you will better understand how Bush violated the laws. Nobody likes those prisoners including myself, but holding them is in violation of the law and Obama has no choice. Bush should have cleaned up his mess before he left.

New Day- You are a fool. Try these sub-human scum in an American court of law? They do not have nor do they deserve constitutional rights that we Americans have. You are twisted. If these scum are tried, then many of them will walk free. People on the Left will probably praise them and they will write books about their stories which the left will buy and make them millionaires. These are the worst of the worst. And Beverly- Guess what, the torture that has occurred at Gitmo since Obama became President has gotten WORSE! Stop blaming Bush for every crisis. These people are scum. Liberals will stop at nothing to give terrorosts more rights than American citizens.

Wake up!! We are looking at closing Gitmo, NOT letting these prisoners wander our streets. They will be going to trial which is something that was denied to them under Bush/Cheney the true terrorists.

I do not believe Obama whose experience is only as a community organizer or anyone else is entitled to an opinion here who has not faced these people in battle, had a fmaily member serve and heard first hand or lost a family member who fought courageously. I see alot of ignorance force fed by the media. Those who say we are no better than them if we torture, please enlist, enlighten yourself or be quiet.

What about trying them? We captured them for a reason, didn't we? Would it be such a travesty to bring those reasons to light?

I can't stand people who say "we are letting the terrorists go free" – that's not what closing Gitmo is about. Closing Gitmo is about resolving whether or not those people are terrorists. The actual terrorists should be TRIED AND CONVICTED, so the cases are closed. And those that are NOT terrorists should be TRIED AND ACQUITTED and set free.

I also cannot stand to see that some people were let free without trial. Regardless of OUR (as a nation) mistakes in letting detainment without trial go on for 7 years, or even torture, that does not mean that those we release are automatically innocent. They should have been tried as well.

If we gave a trial to every individual who was or is locked up in Guantanamo Bay, how is that not the right course? It is not a matter of "giving rights to terrorism" – like I said above – it is about proving which detainees actually were terrorists!

What about trying them? We captured them for a reason, didn't we? Would it be such a travesty to bring those reasons to light?

I can't stand people who say "we are letting the terrorists go free" – that's not what closing Gitmo is about. Closing Gitmo is about resolving whether or not those people are terrorists. The actual terrorists should be TRIED AND CONVICTED, so the cases are closed. And those that are NOT terrorists should be TRIED AND ACQUITTED and set free.

I also cannot stand to see that some people were let free without trial. Regardless of OUR (as a nation) mistakes in letting detainment without trial go on for 7 years, or even torture, that does not mean that those we release are automatically innocent. They should have been tried as well.

If we gave a trial to every individual who was or is locked up in Guantanamo Bay, how is that not the right course? It is not a matter of "giving rights to terrorism" – like I said above – it is about proving which detainees actually were terrorists!

@Sue:

Guantanamo Bay IS NOT stolen land. The United Stated government is in a long-term lease with the Cuban government for the use of that land. In other words, we pay the Cuban government. Since 1902, by the way.

Get your facts straight.

@Sue:

Guantanamo Bay IS NOT stolen land. The United Stated government is in a long-term lease with the Cuban government for the use of that land. In other words, we pay the Cuban government. Since 1902, by the way.

Get your facts straight.

This is nothing but a bunch of politically correct crap.

This is why people want Obama to fail. His ideas and the ideas of the Left are frankly stupid.

I hope that they somehow break out and murder Liberals. That would be justice.

I am not an American (Canadian), so perhaps that gives me a little distance with which to consider some comments posted here. I have the sense that closing of Gitmo should do a whole lot to reduce terrorism even if all the detainees would go somewhere to become active terrorists; because closing Gitmo would remove one of the most effective recruiting lines the terrorists have.

I have had the opportunity to get to know one of the service men who worked interrogation in Iraq and came back a morally and psychologically scarred person. The victims of torture and such policies are not all foreign or "enemy" personnel. Many are Americans.

No one said anything about "releasing" these guys.
Where do you people get this stuff – must be Faux news or Rush Limpballs!

This is about closing Gitmo, which is a festering sore on American values.
America does not torture, if you take issue with this fundamental principle of true American values then perhaps you are no better than our enemies?

it is truly evident in the readings of these posts just how much Bush's propaganda of fear worked on the most weak minded individuals of this country. it is sad. so sad. i really hope that education is on top of the to do list for obama so that we can have a country of educated individuals return to the true values of this country.

Has anyone ever noticed how muslim looking that the Obama political sticker is?

@realityking

"The Taliban's new top operations officer in southern Afghanistan had been a prisoner at the Guantanamo Bay detention center"

Since President Obama has not released anyone from Gitmo, that would be work of your best bud the shrub.

Has anyone ever noticed how muslim looking that the Obama political sticker is?

Closing GITMO doesn't mean setting dangerous prinsoners free.
Those who are dangerous to us and to the world should remain locked up for life no matter what the cost.

A real tangled web Obama weaves. What is that old saying?

Noah March 11th, 2009 10:55 am ET : Convenient memory you have, it was the Bush administration that released the former prisoners. The detainees at Gitmo have been held against their will for years without formal charges. While not all detainees are innocent as new born babies, what right do we have to kidnap anyone, and take them to a foreign country against their will? How would you like to be swept up from your life, taken to a foreign country, told you're guest while having a gun and torture everyday? Would that be enough to turn you into something you were not previously? Why do you think Bush choose Gitmo to house the detainees? It wasn't because of the sunshine, he was probably informed if they set foot on American soil they would be subject to our laws and rights, one of which is a speedy trial, which is hard to do without evidence, even circumstantial evidence. No one has said these men are free, they are being handed over to authorities to be jailed. I think these men will surely wish they were back in Gitmo than the less than cushy confines of a foreign prison. Americans have to practice what we preach, we cannot expect to violate the right of others and expect to have our soldiers treated with kid gloves when captured.

Obama releases Gito detainees to third parties washing his hands of terrorists. Meanwhile...., The Taliban's new top operations officer in southern Afghanistan had been a prisoner at the Guantanamo Bay detention center, the latest example of a freed detainee who took a militant leadership role.

How many more people will Obama let these captured terrorists kill??

Close Gitmo, but do not close secret CIA prisons

Released terroists or suspected terroists will probably return to their business of terrorism, just as so many times convicted felons return to crime when they are released. I don't have an answer – just an observation, but somehow I think we need to figure out what gives them the desire to do what they do and change that. What do we do to reform people in our prisons so they return to be useful and full citizens – and there are success stories. We change the person one at a time.

Finally, a return to REAL American values like releasing our enemies so they can return to their terrorizing and killing!

Shame on Bush and Republicans, they should keep GITMO open so THEY can be TORTURED, because their actions are a hundred times worse than a terrorist that plans bombings that destroy the lives of innocent people! Strapping bomb vests onto mentally retarded women and detonating them in the middle of a crowded market is NOTHING compared to BUSH! Recruiting children as suicide bombers or human shields is child's play compared to BUSH! Maybe if BUSH only kidnapped innocent people and beheaded them in front of a camera he might deserve his freedom!

I hope Obama can find a SAFE home for these poor terrorists.

PS: I am completely insane AKA Liberal

Those clowns in GITMO were involved in 9-11...Killing them is what they want. They are really proud of themselves for what they did. I don't know what our government has done to these people in the past that we are not aware of, but it's sad for the innocent

I've come to realize the majority of people who comment here are simply either NOT American, or poorly educated. Which, if you are poorly educated, for the sake of this country go back to school and learn a thing or two about common sense and rationality.

Most liberals would support leaving Gitmo open if they could just let the terrorists go free and fill it back up with Americans who have views and beliefs that are conservative.

Since it is obvious now that liberals cannot ever debate a conservative, other than making childish lib insults, they wish to silence us by any means possible.

Conservatives find terrorists who want to kill people to be our enemy, liberals find their fellow Americans who disagree with them politically to be theirs. Face it, the aveage liberal Democrat would choose to have Limabugh killed before Bin Laden, that's an undeniable fact.

The liberals will be blaming the gop some how for the next terrorist attack even though they target any defensive measures this country tried to develop in the terrorism fight.

Thankfully most of them live in NY!!

Oh yeah this is just great. They will probably go to Mexico cross our border and we will put them on unemployment benefits and pay for them to damage us from within! What a joke, it is a known fact these people dont care about hurting America. But you bleeding heart libs beg to shut it down so they can rejoin there buddies and continue to cause pain and suffering to the US and our troops. This is a proven fact as many released have already went back to the same old tricks. It is a major problem I agree but trying to beg other countries to take them is a joke why would they want them. They will agree and then just let them run out the back door.

I wonder if any of the places they end up in Europe or Asia will aloow them access toi a Quaran like we did at GITMO. Those of you who think their rights were violated are full of crap.

@ Phoenix 86............... WHY??? What have Pelosi, etc., done????

Let's be HONEST and get the REAL CRIMINALS in there:

Cheney, Bush, Rumsfeld, Paulsen, Madoff, Rove, Mier, etc.!

Just because YOU disagree with Pelosi & Co., does not make them criminals....... on the other hand.........

BUSH TORTURED & LIED. Bush & Cheney both, who swore to protect, uphold and defend our Constitution totally disregarded it when they sanctioned SPYING on American Citizens!

Bush & Cheney CAN NOT travel abroad, because any one of our European Allies can and would ARREST them for WAR CRIMES!

SO....... yes close down Guatanamo, bring justice to the prisoners; investigate why they are there. Some are not terrorists they just happened to be at the wrong place and the wrong time!

People forget that what makes our Nation GREAT is our system of JUSTICE! Bush & Co., made a mockery of our Nation's laws and values!

Noah and April – we are sending them to your houses.

...or we could do something radical like, oh, I dont know, trying them in a court of law?

It never ceases to amaze me how many Americans are willing to betray our way of life and ideals for the false sense of safety.

Let me ask you this, knuckleheads; how did the detainees being in Gitmo make the pastor in Illinois or the 10 shooting victims in Alabama any safer? Don't you get it? We are all going to die anyway. Get over your fear and stop selling out your souls.

Dont close gitmo,we can fill it with right wing zealots,like that nut bag from Alabama.

I said close that shamefull prison now. Trial all this detainee in the court of law, put the guilty one in maximum security prisons here or in other countries, release the innocent (don't care if they go back to al queda or the taliban).
Ask european leaders to help fight the extremist talibans unwilling to help boost al queda and follow al quaeda where ever they go until they become irrelevant or until Bin laden is killed or captured.
Ask pakistan regim to help secure their nucs and provide millitary troops to help confine alquaeda in the mountains.

Burn GITMO to the ground!

But of course.., as the Supreme Court just ruled, Bush was constitutionally right to hold these noncombantants indefinitely without charge..

As space opens at Gitmo, perhaps we can send Pelosi, Reid, Dodd, Rangel, Kerry and Frank there.

Jeff in Illinois is correct about returning to American values on the closing of Gitmo. The problem is: where do you safely put these terrorists? For all of its faults, Gitmo was isolated by the water, and the prisoners were not mingled with a general prison population. The terrorists may not be safe in a US prison. What a mess....

Now the world waits for Obama to progressively define the new consequences of supporting terrorism..

The closing of Gitmo will anger Bush Republicans and false Christians, because the facility goes against American Principals and Christian morals.

True patriots, Rep, Dem, and otherwise, will hail this as part of the return to American values.

Send them to Saudi Arabia where they can be properly beheaded.

Oh great. These fools are closing down Gitmo after it has been proven that more than 60 former Gitmo inmates have gone back into terrorist activities. Obama is more concerned with the rights of terrorists than his own American citizens. Disgraceful

So are the detainees going to Europe! Asia! Where!

If you want to win the hearts and minds of Cubans – give over all of their stolen land that GITMO resides on.
This is the first step to healing wounds between nations, anywhere in the world.