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I am a little surprised that you have so much faith in our ability to reform the terrorists. Some people just cannot be reached. After all, the Republicans cannot be convinced that their ideology is bankrupt, no matter how many times their policies failed to work. Even after the electoral drubbing the Republicans suffered at the hands of Obama, they still think that they don't need to change and all they have to do is to convince the majority of the people who voted for Obama to wake up. I will have imagined that the Republicans have more sense and are more reasonable than the terrorists, but the way the Republicans are behaving it is hard to tell.

I would remind Senator Bond that 425,000 prisoners of war held in the United States during WWII.

Tim – Why don't we abort them, I know all you lefties love aborting people.
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Oh, THAT really hurts when us when you say that....idiot.

***FYI***

We have terrorists in our jails already.....Some of you talk as if our jails are not secure.....Ask one of those guys in there how many times they've tried to escape.....Some of you make it sound as if the sheriff and or local officials are going to bring prisoners from maximum security to have church with you on Sundays.....(I'm laughing) They will be housed in a humane environment (if any of them come to the US)....They are not coming with bombs, guns, and nukes.....They are coming shackled.....

Pam....Have you considered that our 'home-grown-terrorists are able to communicate to other people also? Hate groups are terrorists....Gangs that go around committing murder are terrorists.....Serial killers are terrorists....Fear and hatred cause some people to over extend their imaginations.....

The best we as a country can do is stay well informed regarding possible threats....FP Bush had received forewarnings about a possible threat to this country before 9/11, but did not take it seriously ....To make up for his arrogance, he invented Iraq....I pray that we are not attacked ever again...But more importantly, I pray that President Obama will take any information received abouts possible threats serious, and act accordingly.....I believe he will.....Peace....

Since when have the Democrats ever used good judgement?

No one has advocated letting the "terrorists" go free!
Not all detainees held there are terrorists or have even been charged with being a terrorist.

Enough with the fear mongering and false choices from the GOP!

You don't frighten or fool anyone outside the the drooling chicken-hawks that make up what remains of your "base"!

Always interesting to hear another Republican without any type of military experience claiming to know what's good for the security of the country. Don't we house serial killers, rapist, and other people just as dangerous in our jails. Why is this issue never brought up as a reply to those saying housing terrorist in jails in our country is unsafe. Here's a few names to throw out there. Ramzi Yousef, Zacarias Moussaoui and shoe bomber Richard Reid are just a few of the terrorist housed at the United States Penitentiary Administrative Maximum Facility in Florence, Colorado. This argument that Republicans stick to holds no weight.

Shut up Bond! I don't need, not want your "security". I can take care of myself and my family-especially from "public servants" like yourself. Go Away!!!

What the Libs don't understand is holding the Gitmo prisoners here implies they have the same rights and privileges as American citizens. They aren't US citizens, so to imply they should have the sames rights as US citizens is laughable and downright stupid.

Mr. Bond, your scare tactics will not work this time. I am not for any terrorists, but what I am for is our men and women who fight and protects us. And what if they are torture? What can we say then Mr. Bond. How can we say you don't do that, but it is fine and dandy if we do. We are the most powerful nation there is, our military is the best, you mean to tell me that if those terrorists were brought here, we couldn't keep them locked up so they would never see the light of day again. Ever again. Are we afraid they would escape, what are we so afraid of? Maybe that we would find out some things you Republicans don't want known. To be honest I am more afraid of being gun down by someone with an A-K47.

"you just have to know that President Obama is doing a GREAT JOB of protecting America!"

Forget facts and the truth, the dems are right, they just have to know. National Socialists need their sheep to impliment their plans and as you can see at the ticker, there are quite a few willing and mind-less Demo Obama-bots.

I would be scared for our safety but thank god libs are so lazy and unmotivated.

"Keep you friends close and you enemies CLOSER," goes the saying.

We have exceptional prison systems here – I'm not threatened in the least by having them incarcerated here. The scare tactics just won't work this time.

The average Democrat hates his or her republican neighbor more than those who took down our twin towers, can you expect them to even care about making this nation safe?

If the Bush administration was so sure that the gitmo detainees were guilty why had they not been prosecuted them ? This is the same old game of fear the Republicans has used to make Americans do what they want since 9/11. Everyone knows that terrorist exist, but it's amazing out of all the countries that have been attacked by them America ( the richest country in the world) can not move on. We have been sold the same old lie for 8 years so that Bush and his boys can run ramp shot over other countries and go to war with the claims of weapons of mass destruction that after five years still have not been found.
People stop being scared long enough to realize we have been attacked twice once by the terrorist and second by our then Commander and Chief. It's time to open our eyes and realize that yes there will be other terror attempts but we cannot stand by and live in the past we must move one and prepare for the next fool who feel they are justified to kill. People die on America's streets everyday without as little as a second look. They out number the victims of 9/11 ten times, but we are so stuck in the past we cannot see we are safer from a terror attacked than we are from a criminal invading our homes. Safer from a terror attack than from some hillbilly couple in Houston Texas who think they have the right to shoot children because they feel they are trespassing. We are safer from terror attack than we are from some road rage fool who decides to get even. We are safer from a terror attack than we are from a disgruntled person who decides to go into a mall, job, etc and start shooting. Danger is all around us we need to not continue to be held in the past. I lost co-workers in 9/11, but holding people in Gitmo who we are not sure have even done anything will not solve the problem or bring them back. Yes terrorist torture, attack, and kill, but we are suppose to be better than them.

I really, really don't get this.

These guys aren't supervillains. They can't shoot lasers from their eyes or punch through concrete walls, and the word "mastermind" is rather, uh, generous. So why is everyone so worried about holding them here?

Oh...oh, that's right, because then we won't be able to torture them as easily.

Kit Bond needs to go away. far away. he would fit in nicely in alaska.

While the alternatives are not fun, what information does the government actually allow us to know that all of these guys are the same level of threat. If I have a choice btw more Bush era criminal actions by my government and taking a tiny risk with conventional prisons, I will got with the latter. Frankly, most of the enemy captured with weapons and explosive simply should have been shot resisting capture. Not that Bush accpeted it, but we do have committments on our behavior once we do take them prisoner.

So forget this wedge issue and start the war crimes trials so we can redeem our Nation's honor.

Unemployment at 10% – but at least Bush isn't president,
National deficit at record highs – but at least Bush isn't president,
Oil prices going up again – but at least Bush isn't president,
Mortgages still defaulting at record rates – but at least Bush isn't president,
Housing market still at all time lows – but at least Bush isn't president,
Illegal Immigration undeterred- but at least Bush isn't president,
We got 12.00 a week tax break but our taxes went up 60% on alot of everyday items and continue to do so – but at least Bush isn't president.

How long do honestly believe the American people are going to tolerate this? You (Dems) had better start coming up with some plans and ideas that do not just enrich the fat and lazy by taking our hard earned money and do it fast or you will find yourselves where we(conserv) are now. And oh yes, please try and do it without telling us how glad we all are that Bush isn't president.

Sen. Kit Bond must be paid a lot of money to be this dumb, (or this big of a tool). We have somewhere over 2,500,000 prisoners in the US, 250 more is nothing. And the sad fact is that a good percentage of the 250 prisoners in gitmo have done nothing wrong except to get turned in by another tribe.

Here they go again, trying to terrify us out of our wits. For pete's sake, if US prisons are enough to hold people like the unibomber, Terry Nichols, and the Phildadelphia sniper, then it can hold the prisoners transferred from Gitmo. It's not like they'll be running free.

Kit I am from missouri would you please shutup and try to get some jobs here in the state you represent we could sure use the help or is that going against the republican party, this is your last term do something for the people.

If you're not prepared to do anything and everything to protect those you love you are a coward. Period.

to whom maybe reading this it gos for all of the above this is what we do to all of us fus fus fus and no one see what we all r up to do.we just talking and letting iran go fully ahead with its bomb do we all like the sound of this no we don't,so to the usa that i love so much and i did not born here,lets looks in stad of just talking, but i do think obama is going the right way about it and if iran do not listen this time we will be open for a 3 war this is not what we want but if iran do not listen to obama it will happen,

It is sad that the republican elected officials are so scared of everything.

Hey Libs – your closed minds and we are right on EVERY issue intolerance are getting kind of stale. Try living up to your self imposed idol worship and see if you can argue one single point without invoking the names, Bush,Cheney, or Palin.

to whom maybe reading this it gos for all of the above this is what we so to all of us fus fus fus and no one see what we all r up to do.we just talking and letting iran go fully ahead with its bomb do we all like the sound of this no we don't,so to the usa that i love so much and i did not born here,lets looks in stad of just talking, but i do think obama is going the right way about it and if iran do not listen this time we will be open for a 3 war this is not what we want but if iran do not listen to obama it will happen,

Obama and the Dems should be thrown in jail for what they have done to this country. Pbama in just over 100 days and the Democratic House which they have comtrolled for 35 of the past 40 years

Newflash for you Obamabots the recession may lighten for 6-12 months, but then we are going into a deeper and more harmful downturn thanks to the actions of Obama and the Dems.

1 Inflation will hit before we get the jobs back. This will throw the country into a recession with more job losses
2 The US dollar will be approaching the Peso in value, making imports too expensive and our exports worthless, further contributing to the recession and more job losses
3 The markets will go below 5,000 with the devaluation of the US dollar making all you Dem's retirement accounts worthless.
4 Social security will be bankrupt prompting cuts in benefits
5 Homeland security has been gutted by Obama so wait for the next terrorist attacks
6 Gasoline will become too expensive and we will have rationing
7 CIties and States will go bankrupt prompting more loss of jobs, property devaluations, foreclosures, and dramatic cuts in services – medical, fire, police, thereby throwing the country into a siuvival of the fittest mode in some locales. Watch for marshall law in some states with the troops in the streets
8 Our home mortgages will be owned by Eurpoean and Asian banks and then the foreclosures spike again
9 All autos will be foreign made as the UAW and the Dems run GM and Chrysler out of business

Obama and the Dems are dangerous to this country in too many ways to count.

It is all about symbolism with Obama. National Security comes in a distant 3rd (behind trillion dollar deficit spending and pork barrel spending at its worst in several decades).

I believe Obama is a threat to the national security, the economy, and Wall Street. His actions to date underscore those assertions.

The ready, fire, aim is what the Republicans are all about, how quickly Bond seems to forget the things that happened during the Bush/Cheney administration.

I know I don't have a snowball's chance in he** of getting this posted by the CNN moderators, but here goes anyway.

@ John – What a great and, at the same time, well-said post. Thanks for the laugh.

I agree that we have the best maximum security prisons here, and how often do we hear about anyone escaping from one of them? If I remember correctly, there is an empty one (at least according to a report on 20/20 (I think) a few years ago) in the middle of Montana somewhere. We've been paying to keep it operational for years, without even one prisoner being there. We could send all of the detainees there and they wouldn't even have to have adjacent cells because it's so empty. Even if it has become operational by now, I still think it would be a good place for at least some of them, and the rest could be spread around the country. I, for one, would still sleep very well knowing that they would be under lock and key in any of them.

Why don't we abort them, I know all you lefties love aborting people.

What is this obsession these people have with these prisoners? They are not magicians or supermen. I fail to see how our prisons are not fully capable of housing anyone of them.

Well let's see. 1)Send them back to their countries where they can be freed to commit some other rediculous crime against humanity. 2)Keep the stupid "Gitmo" doors open for more condemnation and citicism of America's and illegal detention of so-called enemy combatants. Or 3) Just simply convict them of their crimes and send them prison here in the United States.

If imprisoning them in the U.S. is such a big security threat, then why in hell are we housing our own prisoners. I mean if our domestic prisoners are not a national security risk because our penal system is so well kept then, I guess I don't have a problem with any prisoner for any reason being detained and/or incarserated in the U.S.

I choose option 3. But who am I...just 1 of Millions I guess it doesn't really matter.

Question for Mr. Bond: We have serial killers, murderers, home-grown terrorists, in prison already right? Are you saying that our justice and prison system is not living up to keeping us safe from them?

What does our current justice system lack to keep us safe that we need Gitmo over our established prison system? I wish someone would answer that question in a straight forward and to the point way.

Another DC parasite who has been around too long..... Mr. Bond that is

The ready fire aim strategy was used by the Bush/Cheney administration. The only difference is the ready part was not thought out. The fire part was mis-directed. And, there was no aim except to make money for military contractors, Blackhawk Security, and the Republican rich who believe they are the ruling class. GOP, GTH.

this Alfred E. Newman clown has no clue....

The Republicans are again using fear to critize ANYTHING Obama does.
These prisoners are going to prisons inside the USA. They're not being released into society.The same prisons that house the Unibomber, the late Timothy McViegh, and dozens of other terriosts.
Is CA in danger of having Charles Manson in it's state? What about New Yorkers who house Son of Sam?
The whole concept that having a dangerous person IN PRISON creates a threat to society is ludicious.

GOPer said, "We are not Communist China and we Do Not Torture, Period. We are the United States of America!"

In the eyes of the world we're worse than Communist China because we behave EXACTLY like the communists in China, yet we piously and hypocritically claim that such identical behavior is NOT as bad as it would be if a communist Chinese were doing the EXACT same thing.

Of course, our white capitalist Christian God, who we was say is love, is the reason we Americans are the greediest most violent people on Earth.

When the United States lacks the security to imprison 240 detainees then we have no security. The Republicans and others are making the most stupid argument that it threatens our security to close Gitmo, leaves me only to believe we've got the wrong representatives in the WH.

I don't understand the republican mentality. They have the opportunity each and every single Saturday when they get their fair share of the spotlight to prove to this country they have ideas and that they have solutions. Instead, without failure, all they do is complain.

THIS IS WHY NO ONE LIKES YOU!

Bohner put out a negative message on the jobs report last week just 6 MINUTES after the numbers were released!!! And they were better than expected numbers!! WHY ARE YOU COMPLAINING EVEN WHEN IT'S NOT RAINING?????????

Being a resident of Missouri, it's embarrassing to have such a narrow-minded senator. While he realizes that completely closing GITMO was necessary to make a statement, does he not realize that there are other means of handling terrorists. Closing GITMO doesn't release ALL of the terrorists back into the battlefield and completely let down our defenses. There are other means that, and some that already exist, of handling this situation.

That's what Obama is all about – SYMBOLISM. He's a dreamer, he doesn't live in the real world. His speech saying no more nuclear arms is welcome by Kim Il Jong, he's testing his own nukes. Iran is doing the same thing. When USA is weak with national security, the economy goes along with it; this two (economy and national security) goes hand in hand like Siamese Twins.

You left wing nut jobs are all the same... I can't wait for your demise in 2010... hahahahahha

This coming from a member of the party that was in power on 9/11 and continually supported a war in Iraq that had no purpose. Not what I call a very reliable authority on keeping this country safe. Conservatives have no ability to learn or to adjust. None! They are an ideological group whose ideology has proven to be an utter failure and noone there can up with a sinlge new 21st century thought.

I am so sick of these negative,no solutions, obstructionist republicans who lie like a sailor swears. This so called legislator know that the fly over was no authorized by Obama.

Hahaahahahaha so happy to see you stupid americans bringing down your own country with this obama lol

The really laughable thing is that Obama claims that enhanced interrogation techniques actually serve as a recruiting TOOL for terrorists. That if we torture these monsters, more will come after us. I'm really not trying to hate anyone, and I actually have a deep respect for the Muslim people and their commitment to their interpretation of the Koran. But lets consider this for just one second: Before the ousting of Saddam Hussein and the rising of the current Iraqi administration (which by the way is a completely incompetent joke as far as governments go), Saddam Hussein very effectively and efficiently ruled these people with FEAR!

Lets face facts here, the closing of Guantanamo is political. It will not make us any safer. Any rhetoric to the contrary is just political boot-licking.

Lets see now. If I'm not mistaken these men are not prisoners of war. They are suspected terrorists. But, I've read, not all (if any) have been proven terrorists, just guilty of being middle eastern and SUSPECTED of being terrorists. Tell me Mr. Bond (James?) which ones are the real terrorists?

Every time an old, white, fear monger republican opens their mouth, countless others flock to the Democratic party. Keep talking Kit.

The Republicans are a complete joke. They have a very strong contempt for the American voting public. Obviously, they believe we are so ignorant that all they have to say is 'terrorist' and it will automatically beat us into submission by fear and we will vote for them hand over fist.

Well, which is more of a threat? An American citizen who is in prison for mass murder or someone who was picked off a desert battlefield and detained because he supposedly was fighting with the Taliban? If both of these people escape and are on the loose, which poses a greater threat to society? And then ask yourself which type of crminal our prisions house more of? Another losing argument for the GOP er Whig Party.......

Like certain other groups from elsewhere, repugnicans are stuck in a small, narrow mindset. Their mantra is war, hate, division, hostility,and throwing hissy fits if they see something that makes sense. Sound familiar? Think taliban.
Let them rave on...they are unaware of their impending implosion. They are the best thinkgto happen to America, now that Obama is in charge!

Considering this guy's credibility, I would not hold much stock in his advice. Remember, he voted against the stimulus package and then went back to his constituents and bragged how he brought much need stimulus money to the state. Please, get real. Just another Republican hatchet man taking his turn attacking the President's policies.

Back to the same old tired "danger, danger" screams from the paranoid right.

I have to wonder what the GOP is afraid of. Is it that they don't want the American people to see what we have done to these people. What I think these hateful people (who also claim to be Christians) should really do is reread their Bibles (again if they really have one) and try to understand what our Lord Jesus said about loving your fellow man and not judging your fellow man. I know there is room for these prisoners in or maximum security jails to hold these folks until they can be tried. We are a country that was built on the rule of law and Christian beliefs, when we stop practicing either of these principles, this country will fail.

What is it with all of you terrorist sympathizers? Bush kept us safe after Bill Clinton ignored the facts about terrorism in America. Remember, the twin towers almost got blown up once under Clinton's watch. Americans died, what did he do to make us safer?

Obama,outs alot over,Ethics,,How about John Mutha's Scandal of funneling contracts to his Relatives,and his pork barrel spending of the stimulis package??? Where is Joe Biden? He was suppose to be watching the stimulis money where the Hell is He?

GOP is a JOKE. All these bigots know is FEAR, LIES, and ROBBING the American people out of TRILLIONS of dollars for the rich, ENOUGH of the BS from these people. The GOP had control of Congress from 1994 to 2006 and control of the White House for 8yrs and look what they have done to the country and to the U.S. all over the world. Two wars b/c of FEAR and GREED, and economy shot to pieces, 5.3 MILLION people out of work, Health care system out of control b/c of their policies, Banking system collapse, Mortgage Melt down and now they want the smart people of this country to TRUST them b/c they think Pres. Obama is a socialize, PLEASE, you idiots, we voted you crooks out of office in 06 and in 08, so save your fear tactics for those right wing nut jobs out here that are to stupid to get the real facts. If they would stop watching FOX News with all their LIES, they would see the country different.

Yes, Senator Bond we need to continue the policies of the Gay Ole Party and simply piss off the world and watch our citizens jump from skyscrapers because we refuse to listen or ever admit our shortcomings or consider another point of view. Because admit it or not, the remains of the GOP litter the tapes of 9/11!!!

I am from Missouri and quite frankly many of us think Bond is a complete BOOB!

Anyone saying, with a straight face, that having Gitmo prisoners in the US is a risk is basically saying our prison system is a total joke and everyone should be afraid.

Bond has basically said that everyone should be horribly afraid of ALL the murderers and serial killers we have locked up in Prinsons and Super Max Prisons across the US because they could EASILY get out and kill people.

I mean how STUPID does he think most people are? Well, heck we elected Bush twice so I guess he has the right to think most Americans are dumb as a box of rocks.

Ed

You should go live with Nick from Lincoln. You are both morons. What does the Republican party have to do with robbing great sums of money. Heck the biggest thief of all was Bernnie Maldoff who was who gave millions of dollars to liberal Democrats, go figure.

Additionally, Barney Frank, Chris Dodd and Maxine Waters are more to blame for the Mortgage mess then anyone in the Bush administration. I love it how all you libs blame the Republicans for everthing that has gone wrong in your life. I bet if you have a bad bowl movement it is George Bush's fault. NEWS FLASH- he is not the President now. Obama is.

OK people......... put down the kool-aid for a momnet, take a deep breath, pause before typing, and stop breaking limbs while patting your backs due to recent wins.

The issue here with Bond is not about war nor torture. It is about an administration making a MAJOR policy decision without a plan. Plain and simple!

Policy makers maker on both sides are guilty of this error. It just makes the new administration look a little immature on such a high visability decesion. This is not the perception they should project to the BIG BOYS (China and Russia).

If there was ever an example of a President who is NOT of a "ready, fire, aim" mentality, it is Obama. Not in my memory have we ever seen such a rational, careful problem-solver in the oval office.

I am quite comfortable with Obama's approach on this issue. It just seems to me that the Republicans have to find something to criticize, and so they are now trying this.

Just when I thought The Party of No was running out of doddering old fools to put in front of a camera....

It's the same old tired justification for breaking the law, the same old tired scare tactics, coming out of the same old, tired, talking heads.

‘Ready, Fire, Aim’ strategy. Trust me Pops, the dems ain't gonna go stealin' out of the republican't play book.
Just like an obstructionist has-been GOP'er from the 50's with no new ideas – resort to the usual "fear, smear, mock and lie" tactic.
Next up – "The commies are coming, the commies are coming" right?
If you old geezers are gonna go after the dems, please, think up something NEW for a change, not the usual "tax cuts for the rich and no regulations for Wall Street and their banking buddy thugs...

“Whether these terrorists are coming to a prison in Kansas, or a halfway house in Missouri, or any other state – I can tell you this:

“Americans don’t want these terrorists in their neighborhoods.

“That’s why when we put it to a vote, the Senate voted 94 to 3 against importing detainees to American soil – even if that meant to a maximum security prision."

I wonder how he feels about the OKC bombers being housed on US soil.

Bond is exactly right......

Another example of a ham-handed attempt by republicans to manipulate Americans through fear. How stupid do they really think we are? Do they truly believe that transferring Gitmo detainees to, say, maximum security federal penitentiaries will make the country "less safe?" I rather doubt they do. But apparently they are betting that WE do. Silly.

When the Repubs, known for their phenomenal ineptitude and stupidity, accelerate their attacks on President Obama, claiming that he is making the country less safe, you just have to know that President Obama is doing a GREAT JOB of protecting America!

A revealing and symbolic fact about the Repubs and the typical behavior we might expect from them is that the Repub VP takes his favorite corrupt attorney out quail hunting, and “mistakenly” shoots him in the face… and these clowns can be trusted with keeping the USA safe?

This country has never been less safe than under the Bush/Repub administration!

REMEMBER: 911 happened under the Bush administration, while King George was reading "My Pet Goat." [Probably his highest reading level…]

To those of you who say King George kept us safe for 8 years, because we were not attacked, I'd like to say: What makes you think that any more attacks were even contemplated during the last 8 years?

It seems to me bin Laden accomplished, with the active enabling of King George and the Repubs, just what he wanted to accomplish: The destruction of our military, masses of American troops coming to their country so they could kill and maim them there, 2+ trillion dollars of debt, spent on utterly useless and unnecessary war(s), followed by the virtual bankruptcy of America!

THAT WAS BIN LADEN'S PLAN YOU MORONS...

GITMO is nothing more than an incubation unit for potential insurgents: IF you were not inclined to hate the USA, you can bet your derriere that after a stint at GITMO you will spend the rest of your life hating the USA!

Man up Kit. Let a terrorist escape into a neighborhood in the US. I bet he'll be banging on the prison door to let him back in with a bunch of red white and blue feet up his butt. Give me one, I have a cage I can put him in. I was a guard at Leavenworth. There is no better place in the world to put them.

Thanks to Mr. Bond and his buddies Bush and Cheney, these men were tortured, and they're probably REALLY pissed at us. That's just great. 250 plus really ticked off Muslims. If they aren't terrorists now, I wouldn't be surprised if they are released and start their own little cell. If they are tried and convicted of terrorism, then they should be sent to the most maximum prison we've got. But first you have to CHARGE them with something!

A special high security prison specifically intended for foreign (and domestic) terrorists could easily be situated in a very remote area here in the U.S. Staffed with sufficient personnel, equipped with sophisticated technology, and nowhere for escapees to go, chances of escape would be zero to none. No terrorist could pose a physical threat to anyone in the U.S. THE TRUTH! While terrorists are imprisoned outside of U.S. borders, it can be argued that they have no rights. If they are imprisoned within the U.S. border, they're deemed to have rights. The GOP's fear of bringing terrorists into the U.S. is that they WILL HAVE HUMAN RIGHTS AND WILL HAVE TO BE TREATED EQUALLY UNDER THE LAW!

Uh Charles Manson, Son of Sam, the unabomber, Zacaria Moussaouri, there are plenty of scary people in maximum security prisons. Why is an enemy combatant scarier than a serial killer, or a domestic terrorist, or a psychotic madman? Put them in a supermax prison. Problem solved. They aren't going to go to a half-way house or a minimum security prison. They're going to be locked up with the bank robbers, serial killers, gang leaders, domestic terrorists and psychopaths that we're already keeping locked up. The republicans in congress are attempting to detract from the work our cops, prosecuters, and prison guards are doing every day, just to score cheap political points. It won't work. Americans are not so naive.

Putting detainees at Guantanamo Bay was never to protect the safety and security of the United States. It was to put the prisoners outside the bounds of U.S. legal jurisdiction so they (Cheney, Rumsfeld, et.al) could do whatever they wanted to them. The argument by Senator Bond is nonsensical if not laughable....and besides, if we're that afraid of the inefficiency of our prisons, maybe we should be more concerned about the safety and security of Americans from regular prisoners...

Mr. Bond

1. Why didn't you say something when Bush people were releasing these terrorists.

2. What is your plan...Kill them all or keep them indefinitely at GITMO?

3. Good job scaring people...coming to your neigborhood as if government is planning to put them into foreclosed house down the street.

4. May be the best idea will be to release these terrorists right amidst your supporters and the people you represent coz the two groups has one thing in common – scare Americans.

5. Nobody listened to you before and want to listen from you anymore...Enjoy your retirement

Repuplicans 2009:
-Torture is OK, Keep GITMO open
-Say No to all Dem plans even if they are identical to your own
-Cower and listen to Rush Limbaugh
-Cut off relations with other countries, no dialogue allowed
-Stop gays. women and minorities from equal rights
-Keep silent or defend every Sarah Palin dumb quote or action

What a great time to be DEMOCRAT.

They are reviewing each case individually...this will help in deciding what to do with them..."symbolism" is the red herring attempt at distraction by Bond and his Got nO Plan pals.....

andhow many prisoners have escaped from our "super max" prisons? thought so

And Sir, could you please tell us how successful the GOP is at security in America? 1. Attacked under Republican rule on 9/11, 2. Sadaam Hussein hung but 9/11 mastermind Osama bin Laden still relaxing, tanning, drinking o.j in his cave, 3. Hundreds of thousands of Iraqis dead and thousands of American soldiers dead (for what?), 4. Gitmo opened with prisoners never tried, 5. Torturing prisoners. The list goes on and on. This man has NO credibility to tell us that the President is wrong for closing Gitmo. Shut up Mr. Bond and tell the others (Cheney, Gingrich, Limbaugh, Bonehead, etc.) to shut up too!

Bond is just another agent of spin. These terrorists are evil but they can be securely guarded in our prisons. Scatter them all over in our maximum prison facilities and they will be as confined as our own home-grown prisoners. And there, we will have to keep them out of the general prison population, because even prisoners have standards.
They are cowards, killing women and children. They would not have a chance among some of our hardened criminals.

President Obama fulfilled a campaign promise the the majority of Americans when he closed Gitmo.

Let me see if I can make it clear to the Party of NO,

President Obama WON, and you lost and are the MINORITY, get used to it.

There is a reason Mr. Bond will not run for re-election, and it is simply that the voters of Missouri have realised how stupid he really is.

I absolutely agree with everything you guys have posted, especially Nick, because I firmly believe these prisoners were just confused and impressionable young men who got into a little mischief. On top of that, they are grossly misunderstood by the majority of people in this country, who believe they are "terrorists", or even worse, "killers." But hopefully, we can bring their plight into the national spotlight and gently persuade them to see how their deep-seated resentments are actually the result of low self-esteem and possibly verbally abusive childhoods. I sincerely hope, from the bottom of my heart, that these individuals can be reformed and capable of loving humanity as much as we Democrats do.

100 Kids Shot and Murdered in Chicago Last Year, the only ready , aim, fire is from within,

Mr Bond, Im not going to suggest anything because you are a Senator and Im not , facts are facts, hint hint

Congratulations, Mr. Bond. You managed to get some publicity with your catchy little phrase. And we both know that's all this was about.

You say you're concerned about making our country "less safe?" You should have thought of that before you got behind a war that had nothing to do with routing out and punishing the perpetrators of 9/11, and everything to do with invading a sovereign nation with a duly elected leader because we decided it was in our best interest to do so. Our little "venture" into Iraq increased the number of enemies gunning for us like nothing else. So rather that concern yourself about where we put the Alleged (yes, Mr. Bond, people are still innocent until proven guilty in this country) Terrorists, perhaps we should give some thought as to why they hate us in the first place.

To be a US senator, this Bond guy is one dump character. He has absolutely zero credibility not only on this topic but on everything he comments on. I have watched him give many interviews and he is as dumb as a fencepost. He has no intellectual honesty or rational thoughts.

You kids who STILL insist there's this huge Dem vs GOP thing really need to be a little more educated.

There's no difference, folks. None. Find a new song, this one's been way off the charts for years. Get INFORMED.

Waterboarding is MILD compared to some of the things we do 'in the name of Democracy'. We torture, we kill, and YOU pay for it.

Rise and shine, folks – wake UP.

More Republican hypocrisy, pure oppositionism with NO IDEAS OFFERED!

The whole conservative political ideology and strategy is "liberals bad." They have been trying real hard to ignore their monumental faceplant failures during the Bush years, and now are wildly accusing liberals of doing things they themselves did worse only a few years ago (months even).

Well, that explains Sarah Palin: when you are totally humiliated and utterly devoid of any ideas at all, a brainless self-dealer like Palin starts looking pretty good.

Someone should tell Kit Bond that shutting down Gitmo does not mean we let suspected terrorists go, nor that they would be brought into the United States. We don't have to tell anyone where in the world we are detaining the people who are truly dangerous. Even the Republicans can understand that every nation has state secrets. After all, they argued that the memos justifying waterboarding should not have been made public. Keeping gitmo only hands the terrorists a recruiting tool. If he is aware of the symbolism of Gitmo to the rest of the world-that the United States condones torture-he would not stand in the way of closing gitmo.

The GOP apparently consists of huge flatulating vaginas these days.

What a bunch of flamin pu$$ies....

Instead of any help with solution all they do is criticise.What a bunch of worthless politicians. Termk Limits need to happen..

Every single post on here so far must be from an Obama lover, and not one single comment addresses the issue (indeed, did some of you read the article first?) None of you know what you are talking about or even understand the complexities and ramifications. Meanwhile, Obama keeps coming up with these weird all-of-a-sudden policies in response to an issue that is maybe 4 days old. While I may not always agree with Republicans, at least they seem to have a heavier foot on the ground than our Hussein Obama.

Another BRAIN-WASHED Republican!! Every one of them have the same psychology and phyilosophy! Thank God Obama was elected President! Where would be now if it would have been McCain-Palin?? Answer: Right back into the Bush "pscyhology pen"!!!

ooooooooo I'm sceart!

@ HAd It- Shall we allow terrorists to be tried in our country and give them the same rights as American citizens? Perhaps give them book deals and publicity tours?

Say what you want about the GOP. We've heard it all before. We are holding Obama and the Democrats accountable, and THAT makes liberals mad.

Obama is calling in air strikes on the Taliban and Al-Queda leaders in Pakistan that he knows will also kill the woman and children that are in the compounds. You are ok with that but not waterboarding Khalid Sheikh Mohammed (the man who planned the mass murder of 3000 people in the US) in order to save lives and prevent futher attacks?

Where is the logic? It is 100% political just as closing this base is!

Sen. Bond is blowing smoke. Pres. Obama is right to close the detention center at GTMO. There are only a handful (literally) of prisoners there that we really should be concerned about. I know what I'm talking about, because I've worked there. Our criminal justice system and our penal institutions (i.e., SuperMax) are more than capable of handling these terrorists. We've done just fine with the terrorists that we've had, Unabomber, Terry Nichols, Timothy McVeigh, etc. There is not much difference. You try, you convict, then you incarcerate or you terminate.

OK. He's closing GITMO right? Does that mean he's letting the detainees go? And if they are placed in facilities in the U.S. I would assume they would be maximum security facilities. Not the local city jail. How is that making the country less safe?

i thougth we are a nation of laws why hold someone indefinitly.as the rigth wingers say strict constitiutional adherance.lets us prosecute them and bring them to justice,don't hide them, shame on those who shout on the roof tops about our laws and sit on a pile of sham.

Those terrorists sneaked in our country and did their evil act. What about the torture that our people went through before they died in those airplanes, and in the towers, and their families since then. What about those contractors of ours that they dragged down the streets, and those they beheaded? We must never allow the terrorists back in our country for any reason, and we don't need our American president going over there and "kissing up" to them. You can not make friends with the devil! If you pat a snake on the head and kiss up to it, it will still bite you. Those prisoners in G. Bay has three meals a day, a place to sleep, and their life. We must take a clear stand against any terrorists. We are letting our guard down too much!

Hey Kit,

Where were you when Bush/Cheney did just that ("Ready, Fire, Aim’ strategy")?

btw, when you retire, could you do something useful for a change? Here are 2 suggestions

- Go after the Vatican folks that protected the Boston child abusing priests for decades until... they got caught!

- Ask those who voted against the same-sex marriage why they keep touching themselves? Remember to ask our macho "Don't ask; don't tell" patriotic arm forces, too. Perhaps they, like those Vatican folks, don't touch themselves! And just out of curiosity, when was the last time you...

Cheers!

“The President needs to honor his pledge of transparency and provide the American people with answers."

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Is anyone else SICK of the Republicans going on and on about "transparency" after 8 years of the total secrecy practiced by the Bush White House? They hypocracy of it is staggering.

Sen. Bond, sir, until you and your fellow Republicans have something new to say, unlike the constant refrain of fear mongering your party has practiced for the past 8 years, please, be silent!

Another old, white, half baked, Republican who cant get over the fact Republicans don't matter any more...Their last day of any power was 19 January 2009...Now he should join his butt buddy Bush and snort a couple of lines and swig a little white lighting...

Does anyone in their right mind care what this moronic, unintelligent, ridiculous redneck thinks? Bond is the epitome of "excess baggage in the airport of life." This idiot is the definition of a special interest politician. Crawl back under your rock, Kitty.

we need to illegally invade another country, torture prisoners, and then wonder why the world hates our guts. clue: let rush limpballs continue to be their spokesman.

Nice try you GOP catch phrase designers writers but the Ready, Fire, Aim quote was used many moons ago to describe your incompetent King George and his obsurd band of chickenhawks.

In 200+ years of history we have never needed a prison off of US soil to hold prisoners, whether they were foreign terrorists or domestic terrorists. After the 93 bombing of the WTC we rounded up those responsible, tried them in NY federal court, and then tossed them into jail. And now we will do the same thing to those sitting in Guantanomo. The only people that will be released are those who have nothing to do with terrorism, who were scooped up by the army. This is well documented, and Bush released 61 prisoners already.

All the Republicans know how to do is fear monger.

Republicans:

Drill Baby Drill! But not in my backyard.

No abortions! But I don't want the kids on welfare in my backyard.

Leave Big Business alone to pollute the environment! But not in my backyard.

Now they are acting like KHALID is going to wind up in a halfway house? HA!

Did this clown ever tour a maximum security federal prison? I'm sure they can handle it.

1. Not all detainees in Gitmo are "terrorists"... a large portion have never even been charged with a crime, let alone convicted.

2. Holder has already said, that "we will not release any terrorists into the USA".

3. So, the GOP is playing footsie and the fear-card over the words Gitmo and Terrorists.

Chenna Benna May 9th, 2009 11:45 am ET

No. The "ready, fire, aim" strategy was already overplayed by Bush when he and his stooges got us into Iraq.
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actually I think Bush used the aim, fire, ready strategy

Why doesn't he spend a couple of days there ? The closng of GITO is imparative to our standing in the world. It's a symbol of what we DON"T want to be!

Send them all to Texas to live next door to George Bush. After all he brought them to GITMO!! Buy each one a doublewide.

Maybe the republicans are afraid of bringing these so-called terrorists to justice because if we apply our rule of law to them then they will all go free due to Republican illegal activities such as torture; therefore, they prefer we sweep it under the rug and not let the truth surface. can we do that? not under President Obama, who has lots of integrity unlike Bush and his cronies. Thus, it is time to face reality and taste the medicine.

I guess we all forgot that it only took a handful of terrorists to take down the World Trade Center. I think we also forgot that terrorists behead and slaughter journalists, soldiers, men and women and yet we should just talk nice and they'll change their minds and play fair. We try to be civilized, but in many cases civility does not apply. I say if you want the terrorists out of Gitmo and into the US, so they can communicate through other prisoners and their attorneys, and plan more mayhem–then hey, build a prison in your neighborhood and host all of them. I'm NOT a Republican, just someone who does NOT want a repeat of 9/11 or worse, and if you all think we can protect ourselves by being nice-well, I'm assuming very few of you have ever been in the armed forces or in the streets as the protectors and defenders of our citizens. Bash me as much as you want, but I am a strong supporter of the armed forces who sacrifice to protect us, and the police and fire departments who protect us every day.

How about putting Bush, Cheney, Gonzales and all those banks CEOs and car companies CEOs n jail for robbing us and destroying our economic?
Capitalism is great but ONLY FOR THE GREEDY and VICIOUS WEALTHY CEOs who NEVER carer about blue collar workers!!
Also why are we in Cuba?? That land we stole back in 1899 after the Spanish-American war. A war that the USA started so they could also grab Guam, the Philippines, Pto Rico and Cuba.

Is OK for the Cubans to have those criminals in their Islands but we cant send them to Hawaii or somewhere in the States? IF is NOT GOOD for them surely is NOT GOOD for the Cubans either. I dont see the crazy Cubans in MIami fighting for this. Shows you that they really dont care about their homeland or their Cubans fellow folks in the island. All they care is for Cuba to be "free" according to them, so they can screw those poor Cubans in the island same way CEO's had been doing to us for years Not wonder Castro had the balls to kicked out all those North American companies that were exploiting the Cuban citizens.

This guy really doesn't know any facts. There is NO difference in security between GITMO and a high security federal prison here in the States. We've been keeping the unabomber, the Oklahoma bombing co-conspirator, a TERRORIST MASTERMIND, as well as several other known terrorists and serial murderers in ADX in Florence, Colorado for well over a decade. No security breach, no media, no protests. It is Bond who's putting symbolism over security. He needs to check his facts first before venting his partisan fairy tales!

We have super max prisons that keep the most horrible of American criminals off our streets, so I'm sure we can house a few of those prisoners in Gitmo. I'm so tired of the fear mongering coming from the right. Clinton's FBI caught and prosecuted those responsible for WTC 93, and they are imprisoned for life and have caused no threat to the US in all that time. Whatever happened to logic?

To those merely wanting to call this an example of Republican fear-mongering or politicking,

This is NOT a political issue or political decision, so why do a number of you simply and so obviously WANT to politicize this? Is it any wonder why this country seems so divided? Perhaps, in your eagerness to play partisan politics, you failed to read the entire article. If "the Senate voted 94 to 3 against importing detainees to American soil – even if that meant to a maximum security prison," shouldn't that level of agreement tell everyone something? That seems to be pretty collective agreement that closing GITMO with no further plan of action is a non-solution. Yet, based on several posts here, we evidently have a pile of bickering children who, it seems, would instead prefer to play political war games.

If you READ the Senator's speech, he is not saying, "don't close GITMO." If you cut out Sen. Bond's unfortunate political rhetoric (yes, I see it, too), he appears to say, "if we are going to close the facility, lets have a comprehensive plan that both closes GITMO -and- provides a remedy for dealing with, moving, or otherwise housing these suspected terrorists." Yes, it's a shame the political rhetoric is built into his speech, but we need a SOLUTION - and playing politics is obviously not helping us arrive at a conclusion.

Maybe instead of political smearing and finger-wagging, you would be willing to propose a SOLUTION or, at the very least, some inkling of an IDEA. John? Pam? DC? especially Larry?

Obama could care less about security and so could his idealistic followers. It's all playing the nice guy on the world stage for them. When something goes wrong they will change their tune. And you have to know something WILL go wrong.

By being open with all nations, President Obama has increased our security by reducing or pacifying our adversaries. The President has defused the world's timebomb!!!

i would like to call attn; to the desperate attemps by the republicans to undermine this president to where it is down right criminal, in what these underminers will stoop too. fact being so much. i would like the justice dept to look into that "flyover" that was done in new york. THERE is a corelation. to have AIR FORCE ONE departing reagan int'l w/o the president and or his family on board. them wheels should have NEVER LEFT THE GROUND. now the fact is ; you have john boehener coming out on youtube AND ON FOX NEWS playing the terrorism card w/ video out about 9-11, and about the planes crashing in to the twin towers on in NY, with the backdrop of the scare tactics of are we safe. this is what the heist of air force one was all about. this was not a mistake this was deliberate. and you have fox news exploiting the video over and over on that news channel. this is the lastest in the plan the republicans got . to gear this president for failure. this is pure maddness. just think if they are capable of highjacking AF ONE what other levels will these people of the republican party stoop too. the AG ERIC HOLDER needs to look into this matter and investigate the possibility of possible charges. a review was ok, but if you look at the whole picture and how things line up. w/ boehener , the scare videos, fox news exploiting the fact of saying the president is going to turn loose the terrorist in our back yard and all their scare tactics. it adds up. bush 2 was right about one thing when he talked to the prez once, and told him about both sides of the aisle. that you got to watch out. cause some of them folks can't be trusted.

Nothing but ACORN nut talking to themselves

Keep it up, GOP, pile it deeper and deeper. Democrats don't need to run against you, you're doing a great job all on your own. Still following Nancy Reagan's mantra? "Just say no!".

Bond, Cheeny, Limbaugh, Palin, Gingrich....the hits just keep on comin'.

Are you people for real? There is truly no way that all the comments here can be from legitimate thinking people. Any story about a Republican making any comments on this website are immediately turned into a thoughtless Bush bash with no substance. THINK PEOPLE! If you have any love for this country and those who will die today fighting for it then OPEN YOUR MIND! We did not start this war. We are not the bad guys. We are hated by our enemies and loved by everyone else. That is exactly the way it should be. The day we make everyone happy will be our last day as a leader and superpower. DONT BELIEVE THE HYPE! If the rest of the world hated us, then why would immigration be such a problem? I don't see a line to leave the USA. You can thank your conservative Christian forefathers for that!

When was the last time someone broke out of a state of the art maximum security prison?

Another delusional Republican spouting off. No real suggestions, just a rant against a president who is improving our standing in the world, and hence making America safer. The entire world hated our policy of hidden prisons and torture for the hypocrisy and blatant disregard for the rule of law that was shown by the previous Republican administration. I live somewhat near the Big Max prision, and there are people in there that would keep any terriorsts in line. Bond is just one more big mouth with no thought behind his news grabbing statements. No wonder the GOP is a party with problems!

Here's where the hypocrisy of the warmongers comes to light. They say that all detainees (mastermind, henchmen, or those who still haven't been charged with anything alike) are dangerous and should be kept in prison, securely. But they mean on somebody else's territory. If it comes to serving the country and keeping villains in high security federal prisons in their state, oh, then it should be somebody else's problem. When Obama KEEPS these prisoners in prison, just transfers them to another holding facvility, they call it 'making the country less safe.' When hundreds of these prisoners were released by the Bush administration these same protesters didn't say a single word! THAT was keeping the country safe? Hypocrites!

Fear, fear, fear! Is that all these guys know in order to try to win elections? If our maximum security prisons are too weak to handle the terrorists, then they are too weak to handle the worst criminals that are currently in them (so why do we have maximum security prisons?)

Since most terrorists are either uneducated, unemployed or very young, why not try to rehabilitate them. You'll lose some but you'll also win some over. If someone tortured me, I would definitely want to pay them pay in one form or another. Torture doesn't cure a problem, it creates one.

I suppose they would like to continue waterboarding... these all knowing saints!

Can it be possible that we can house Charles Manson in a maximum security prison and we cannot house some of these criminals from Gitmo? Can it be possible that they could be held there instead of in a place where we do not know who is the seriously dangerous and who is not? More likely these human beings have been treated so horribly that they are now ALL a danger to the Nation? I suspect it is the latter. As well, wouldn't this tirad be such a cuo if there is more terrorist activity. I can just hear the "I told you so."

I'm sick of these whinning negative Republicans who are no longer relevant! Almost 80% of the people cannot be wrong! And I am so tired of CNN acting like these 21% of lunatics DO matter! I don't recall the Democrats during Bush/Cheney administration being so relevant to CNN or any other news media for that matter!

Boy the Republicans are a bunch of whimps- They must have a very low opinion of out prisons to think these people would be able to escape at will- what an insult to our police agencies and law enforcemnent community- they handle people as tough as these everyday in a professional manner.

I guess Bond thinks the prisons in Missouri are worthless. Put them in the tank at one of our fed prisons in Southern California and the boys in the yard will have them confessing in hours.

I beg to differ with the "headline – ready, fire, aim". That was McCain's mantra during the campaign.

Our very intelligent, thoughful president considers all angles before moving ahead on these matters.

I've already switched from watching CNN to watching other news sources - maybe all intelligent people should do the same. Tired of the divisive e-gossip.

the only way the republiKLANs can legitimise the illegitimate GITMO is to continue to keep these terrorist in Cuba!

if they are United States enemy combatants captured by US soldiers, so why can't the United States keep them in a special facility in the US...why make it another country's problem?

Close GITMO and send the terrorists back to their home countries for trial if the US can't keep them in their homeland!!!!

I don't think CNN will post this ... let me be clear before I start: I am not trying to stir up anti-Japanese/anti-German sentiment when I say the following (I am only echoing the feelings of the Greatest Generation and those who knew/know them):

Regarding torture, just ask Americans who were alive during World War II how they feel about what the Japanese did to our prisoners of war.

For that matter, ask how they feel about US prisoners of war held and Berga an der Elster, who were tortured and used as slave labor, because they were "suspected of being Jewish."

Do we really want to join the ranks of those nations who disregard the Geneva Conventions and have committed atrocities in the name of national security? Especially given that torture has been proven time and again that it does not generate reliable information?

Do we really want to be that kind of country?

Isn't the shoe bomber in the Super Max Prison in Colorado? I am sure alot of these Gitmo Detainees aren't as bad as him and he is in a U.S. Prison.

Ready, Fire, Aim....isn't that that Republican's fight song?

Many of those who have been held at Guantanamo were not terrorists at all but were arrested on false pretenses. Some of those who remain are genuine threats and Republican Defense Secretary Gates has said that each case will be carefully reviewed and handled appropriately. Senator Bond obviously is taking lessons from Master Demagogues Limbaugh and Gingrich. I am a Republican who admires Bob Gates and voted for President Obama...and despises Limbaugh, Gingrich, and others for what they have done to my party.

"In the weekly Republican radio address, Bond charged that Obama is implementing “a classic example of a ‘Ready, Fire, Aim’ strategy.”

The President is accused of using 'symbolism over security'.....
Republicans have been good at masterminding fear through words for years......Consider FP Bush's 'Axis of Evil.' Their strategies are straight from Hitler's playbook.....('Hilter's Rise to Power') Repeat, invoke fear, tell lies to reassure the people that their way is the only way, repeat, bombard with key phrases and sound bites, until the people cave.....Whether they know it or not, their actions are more harmful than any of their accusations against President Obama. Their words invite more negative words, thereby perpetuating the notion that there can be no common ground between the two parties. What will it take to make them become more focused on the good of their country again?

Republicans should really get a life and stop accusing President Obama of everything under the sun! Their precious George Bush was always putting symbolism over everything else and they knew it! He had the country so scared for eight years over things that might happen but didn't!

Exactly by what right did we keep any detainees, evil mastermind or lesser henchmen, on somebody else's territory for so long anyway? They are our prisoners, we are responsible for them. And if anything, they'd be kept much more secure in prisons here than anywhere else. This whole panic about bringing them to US soil making things less safe is nothing but scaremongering and political posturing.

Great Suggestion - House GITMO terrorists in the same jail cells as "middle-of-the-road, white-collar criminals".

Im for putting them in your backyard Kit,you moron.

Sen. Kit Bond, is another old white haired southern Republican, as well as being senile. When was the last time a , a legally convicted criminal, escaped from one of our many maximum security prisons.
Retire old man, you are not doing the people of Missouri, or the rest of us any good with your messages of hate, fear, bigority, and racism.

that will make us the people safer!

Three choices: One..Continue the Military Commision Tribunals in accordance with GC III, Art 5.;

Two.. Keep the detainees at either Gitmo in Cuba or Gitmo 2 in New Hampshire or;

Three.. Set them free

Great Idea - House GITMO terrorists in the same jail cells as "middle-of-the-road, white-collar criminals"

Come on repugs.... we only put them there so we could torture them. If we originally brought them here, they would have "rights". We certainly can't have that!! That is why they sought out GITMO. None of those bothersome rights to get in the way.
The security of our prisons would put GITMO to shame. Since our "other" criminals are not escaping and running wild, I assume this is normal repub "fear mongering"!!!

And the Republican strategy???...Fire, Fire, Fire!!! And in the process the have exponentially increased the terrorist population, as well as the enemies of the U.S. Don't they get it? Kit Bond is a disgrace, as are the rest of his caucus. I say keep Gitmo open, and ship Kit and his fellow Republicans down there. I'll provide the water boards...

To Pam in Oregon
You apparently have no fear of the detainees in GITMO. How about we send them to your town and you can be responsible for them? Get them a job and a place to live happily ever after.

I am now officially sick of republicans. With people like this...

They just don't get it.

Another fear moger Repub with no credibility. He says the gitmo people are very scary, but why should we believe him? The Dick says that too, and we know he is a liar and a traitor. Het Kit – prove it! Do it the American way – put them on trial! We don't illegally hold people because "some one" says they are evil. Step up show some courage!

It astonishes me that Republicans have so little faith in the US prison system. The federal and state supermax systems are just as secure and certainly better run than GITMO, and have the additional advantage of not concentrating terrorists all in one place.

Also, the prisoners will be part of the US judicial system and not shunted off into a legal limbo. Weren't the Republicans the party of law and order once upon a time? The party of morality? Now it's all far-right dogma and '24' fetishes.

The US has yet to win a case against any of these so-called terrorists. The few who are really dangerous would be just as secure at a super-max prison. This is another red herring and I hope the President would not back down over his resolve to close this place that has become a symbol of the worst of the United States. As long as it remains open it is a rallying cry for terrorists all over the world.

THE GOP IS NOT ONLY THE PARTY OF "NO", BUT THEY ARE A PARTY AGAINST THE WILL OF THE AMERICAN PEOPLE. Presidential-Candidate Obama promised the American people (among other things), that when they pull the lever for him on 4-NOV-2008, that he would close Gitmo. Now President Obama has kept his promise but the Republicans are against the majority of Americans that voted to close Gitmo. The Party of NO strikes against the American majority – - again.

If the republicans don't like Obama's plan, what is theirs? You housed them all these years. What were you intending to do with them?
If the likes of a person like Manson is still in a maximum prison, what is so special about Gitmo detainees that they can't be put in our system.

What a big suprise...a Republican is critizing Obama for undoing something horrible that Bush instituted. It is amazing that the republicans just don't get it...the American people love what Obama is doing on foreign policy. By critizing every move Obama makes, that just puts one more nail in the coffin of the Republican party. Couldn't happen to a nicer bunch of iditos. The Republicans are so out of touch, if they "stay the course" the party sould completely implode by the end of the month.

In the weekly Republican radio address, Bond charged that Obama is implementing “a classic example of a ‘Ready, Fire, Aim’ strategy.”

Actually, Mr. Bond, that was Bush's strategy and look where it got us? And do you know for a fact that all the detainees are "deadly terrorists"?

you guys do not know what you are now talking.....this is another guy...who do not talk any kind of sense.....security? when they shook hand with soudi arabia that sent 19 hijackers to our nation....where are you mr. james bond???we have plenty of prisons....they can keep and accomodate these guys......not necessarily guitmo prison...waste of money of tax payers....ok mr. james bond....007?

No, Senator, symbolism over security is when the president plays "fighter pilot dress up". America suffered for eight years while republicans chose symbolism over security, and photo-os over actually doing their jobs. You had your chance, and you blew it. If you really want to help keep this country safe, then shut up and lend a hand, otherwise just shut up.

If the republicans say it, it most likely is WRONG! We have faith in our President and absolutely zero faith in the "pundits" who are NOT in a position to know anything or the republicans who only know how to say no to absolutely anything this President or the current administration or the Democrats say! Zero credibility for these people. President Obama will not do anything to harm this country and will do the right thing! republicans and pundits are becoming increasingly more irrelevant!

Republicans, torture is illegal. Your leader, Dick Cheney, who is over, and out, will go to jail for his ,1 degree of separation, involvement in an international torture program. If we don't prosecute him, the world body will.

Also, I'm delighted to see that you continue to attempt to scare us into your pseudo security blanket. It shows how clueless you are. We already decided we had a choice, six months ago, by voting for Obama. We chose for a new course for security, and rejected you fear mongering, "we will keep you safe by being bullies," approach.

I never felt safe under your control. It was George Bush, who was on Vacation in Crawford, Texas, slinging Bush, while the terrorists were executing their greatest attack on our soil.

We were attacked on 9/11/01 on the Republican watch. You failed to protect us!

I am a republican who agrees with Obama. Close Gitmo put the terrorists in maximum security prisons with the general population here in the US then they would wish water boarding was all they had to worry about. I firmly believe that US prisoners would rank terrorists along with child molesters and would provide the same treatment. What you liberals know but don't care about is what the guards and wardens in US prisons allow to take place rape, torture and beatings treatment much worse than Gitmo.

Hey Kit, the election is over the nation is tired of this fear mongering campaign.

Anyone who thinks were are going to win the war of terror militarily is a fool. The only way to win the war on terror is through the minds of those in the world where terrorists live. Guantanamo Bay and torturing people does more harm than the little information we may obtain. Besides, we it only puts us down to the level of the terrorists and we are better than that.

It's simple math. And it's also beside the point. The math is, for every one person we lock up eithout due process, much less torture, a hundred more will become rasicalized. Some will be heir friends and family, others just people who were close to radical to begin with, who are inspired to become radical because of what they see and hear in the news, and gossip. The point, though, is even simpler: it's NOT just about making us "safer". The fact of the matter is that America stands for something... "Truth, Justice, and the American Way" is the way America should be. As Franklin said, "those who would sacrifice their freedom for their security deserve neither" and I think you can say the same for thier morality, too. Obama is closing Gitmo for all the right reasons, and you are opposing that for all the wrong reasons. He want's to protect us from the hundreds who radicalized becasue we dishonored our own morals, AND to regain the moral authority that continues to protect us, and for which America used to, and should again, stand. And you Republicans oppose it just to not have to admit you were wrong in the Bush years, and also so you can oppose Obama and the Democrats at every turn. You are, in essence, placing your party loyalty above your patriotism, and for that you should be ashamed.

How dangerous were the nazis after they were captured?

How dangerous were the commies after they were captured?

Or the huns, or the injuns, or the messicans, or the rebels, or the yankees, or the redcoats? Shall the US torture and/or hold indefinitely "foreign combatants"? This nation averages as many as six "grievous threats to national security" a century. Surely we can plan better than what we have done.

Is no one smart enough to come up with a smart answer?

You're absolutely spot on John at 11:49am. The Republicans are taking their rhetoric right out of an XMen movie. We can't release Magneto or Juggernaut from their special holding cells at Gitmo and put them on main street USA! Do you really think these 'enemy combatants' would last 2 days in general pop at San Quentin or Pelican Bay?

#1, middle of the road white collar criminals aren't trying to blow us up and kill us; #2, it isn't a question of our prisons not being able to hold these prisoners, it's what happens after some bleeding heart parole board lets them out early; and #3, maybe you folks posting here haven't noticed, but Democrat politicians are asking the same questions about what happens with the prisoners. I think the overreaction is yours.

Ed you are seriously complaining that the Republicans spend too much money.The Democrats are the ones who waste gigantic sums of money.

GITMO detainees are not nuclear bombs that will explode as soon as they hit US soil. It is absurd to say that they will be "released" in US.
GITMO is a symbol of hate and torture and should be closed. Like other serial killers and terrorists that have been tried and sentenced before, GITMO prisoners should be tried in courts and jailed.
Do we only have white collored criminals in our jail? this guy hos lost his mind.

@ Had it......

you hit the nail right on the head. I'd rather have my enemy locked up where I can keep an eye on him than away where he and his buddies could possibly plan another attack. We can lock up Mason. McViegh, Rudolph, many serial killers but I guess these terrorist have some strange ways of slipping thru our penal system.

Guantanamo is exactly the reason why we need a special prosecutor to see if Bush and his high officials can be indicted and tried for crimes.

This Stalinist-style torture center and its kangaroo courts that Bush created are a blight on our country's history, and the criminals, including Bush, who created it need to have their day in court.

I love how when liberals have no intelligent argument for closing the prison, they blame America first, and blame others for their problem. The fact is, Obama is finding it hard to close Gitmo for the same reason that Bush found it hard to close. The nations they came from don't want them back, and the majority of sane Americans, not the liberals on this ticker, don't want them in this country either. You dems can call names all you want, but all you really end up doing is looking like fools, and make America less safe. Let me guess... Now you are going to whine about this post, or call me names, because you can't think of a good argument.

Senator Bond: can you provide an instance where you criticized President Bush for his "aim" at Iraq? Or are you one of those (few) who believed Al Qaeda was found there under Hussein's regime?

Whatever happened to "innocent until proven guilty"? This hyper-fool has already convicted the detainees without trial and ignores the fact that three quarters of those held were determined not to have any connection to terrorism. Maybe the GOP should get their facts straight before trying to scare the American public. Then again, that wouldn't work. Facts and truth are foreign concepts to the Republican Party.

The goal of the Islamist is simple, world domination under Islam, it's in the Quran and these people are merely following the Sura's which also calls for the elimination of any and all non-believers (us). Actually these Gitmo detainees should fit in rather well in South Chicago or Dearborn, MI.

Let's take Republican politicians who spent us into oblivion, Wall Street cheats, and crooked mortgage bankers and put THEM in Gitmo and waterboard them and see what bigshots they are.
Mr. Bond: You are a Republican. Shut up. You're irrelevant now.

Regarding this conversation about GITMO, Sen Shelby stated he didn't know of any town in America who would want terrorists in their backyard. If I recall a few months ago, NPR actually had interviewed a group of leaders in Montana who do want GITMO because of the revenue the town would collect from the government spending. Could the media pull this NPR story and maybe present it to the Republicans who claim no one wants GITMO. And what's wrong with GITMO be constructed in Alaska?

IF torture, waterboarding works, how come these guys who were close to bin laden could not tell us where he is hiding. To me it is not about another attack not happening, IT IS ABOUT SOMEONE TELLING US WHERE THE HELL bin laden IS and the rest of his clowns.

Here they (Rethugs) go again. The Obama administration hasn't even said where they are going to place these folks, but it's already time to criticise the outcome.

Fact is, these "terrorists" are cowards, and couldn't begin go fist-to-fist with some of our natural born convicts. For example, if we throw them in Angola, we'll wind up having to protect THEM from real killers, the kind that didn't sneak up and stab someone in the back.

Say what you want, blame Bush for everything, the Republicans did it, etc. Got it, most of you people didn't are not of the Republican ilk. Stop and think for a moment though. No one wants these people back in their own country. Why? Also, they come to a US prison, they go through their trial, or are released eventually. Where do they go? I've seen what these people are trained for and I don't like it. As a matter of fact, ever wonder why there is always a run on gun sales when a Democrat takes over the White House? Because it SCARES the average American! Our security is at stake. Again, eventually, these people will be released because Obama will cave to ACLU or Amnesty International pressure. Then ol' Sheikh Mohammed is serving you a slurpee at 7-11 with one hand and holding a detonator in the other. They're not being tortured anymore, leave them there until we can find a better country for them than the US, which they swore to attack many, many years before we thought about detaining them.

OK. Any ideas about how to handle the situation? No? I didn't think so Mr. Thinlips!

If Mr. Bond is so scared he should crawl into a cave and pull a rock in front of the opening. I would be willing to allow the gov't to construct a cell in my garage to hold one or two of them. I feel sorry for people like Dick and Kit and all the others that practically wet themselves every time someone says "terrorist." they should seek out some counseling for that condition.

Let the President do his work.

Just by a very simple progression NOBODY believes any republican after 8 long years in the wilderness.

That the republicans believe only in themselves, "our way or the highway no matter what" is more than obvious.

Torture is an evil thing. Talking about axis of evil.

We, The United States of America DO NOT TORTURE... Is this clear?

Who even wants to be a Republican anymore.

So there is ONE "9-11 Mastermind" and that justifies operating an entire prison? Bond ignores that the bulk of the people being held there did nothing and we have evidence of just that, nothing. Additionally, if they wind up in US prisons, how does that make our country less safe? What is Bond suggesting about our prison system? Because I can think of reforms needed in the prison system, but none of them have anything to do with security.

Bill May 9th, 2009 11:38 am ET
You have to give it to the Republicans every week a different face same old song.
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You have to give it to the Democrats - every week the same old (Obama) face, same old song: SPEND, SPEND, AND SPEND SOME MORE!

"Kit Bond"? Seriously? That's his name? And people take this guy seriously? And I thought WE had problems with Ahh-nold.

Gandpa ... I think it is time for you to go. Sorry but you are not part of the solution .. you are part of the problem.

That is what lack of experience amounts to.
In fact he is going beyond that. He is making love with people whose only ambition is destroying the USA.
He means well.

So, Sen Bond, are you a military expert yourself or just a sour Republican who is joining the rest of the sourpusses to hammer away at Obama.

Why not do something constructive?

That's right.
Do something, anything, and we'll go back and try to get it right later. This is Obama's plan. He just wants to "Change!" everything that has ever been done before because he thinks older Americans have all been stupid. Well, Obama is just plain wrong and actually stupid himself not to accept that Americans before him have always tried to do the right thing as a nation. He just doesn't get it and neither do his followers who think he is some kind of savior or something–all wrong!

I guess the Republicans /would/ know about Ready, Fire, Aim.

What? CNN is now Obama's media Czar!

Democrtas he’s how to close GITMO. Put all the terrorist Oops I mean detainees in C-130 and fly them back home. Once over their country open the back door and throw them out then throw out a parachute behind them, that way no one in the media can say we tortured them...

It's the same old rigamarole. If Obama or any Democrat does or proposes anything, the Repubs have to come out against it. Lord forbid they should come up with a single viable idea for change themselves.

Do you think some body should sit the republicans down and explain to them that there is no way in heck that they can get the republican party back on track but standing in front of a TV camera and complaining and whining and moaning about democrats.

It makes them look, petty, childest and really really characterless.

I hope the show me state shows Kitty Kitty dumb dumb the door and them slams it on his butt on the way out.

Ready, fire, aim? Hmmm, this sounds like we are talking about George Bush. Why not consider consider using Gitmo for the "white collar" CEO's, CFO's, bankers and fund managers, as well as all the white haired old senators and congressmen who have destroyed our country with their self-interest, greed and fraud. They are the REAL terrorists.

Let's free the 250 Islamic terrorists into the U.S. Then maybe the Demo-rats will be happy. Oh, I'm sorry. I used the word "terrorist" instead of the Demo-rat term "oversea combatant."

Kitt is smarter tha you spinless libs, he does;t cut a nd run
zippy

Having retired as a police officer from the streets of Nashville, I promise you that the housing projects house many criminals that would put the so called terrorists at Gitmo to shame. Kit Bond is a laughing joke...

Strike 3. I read the first three posts and as true democrats, not one of them addresses the point of the story.

Classic liberal doctrine. Kill all the babies you want, but don't inconvenience a terrorist with horrors like military prison or water.

In WWII or Vietnam, these combatants would have been summarily executed where they were found- armed combatants not in uniform have no rights on the battlefield. Ask Germany's infiltration unit during the Battle of the Bulge.

Is that what you want to go back to? Because knowing what they know now, I bet the military would prefer it. Quicker, simpler, cheaper, and no libtards looking over your shoulder.

Aim before shooting?

Like Republicans did with iraq?

Old, white Senators need to retire. The world has changed, and America needs to join the world.

Wake up America! It is the Grand "OLD" Party and their scare tactics again. Putting rhetoric over facts and relevant data. Do we not already house convicted high risk security inmates in Federal US prisons? These buffons really need to get a new schtick and get the with the program. They are alot like "Chicken Little," oh my the sky is falling at every position that "OUR" elected President tries to implement.

Maybe by the time 2010 rolls in, all of the Republicans who are up for re-election can be slated to speak to the people and show just how out of touch they are with the current state of affairs. Once they are voted out, then the GOP can bring the next batch who are up in 2012 and we will be rid of the tired old thinking. Maybe, just maybe. . .

Republicans, you have made the mistake of blowing all of your ammo in the first 4 months of Obama's presidency. More and more people are desensitized to your fear-mongering that they just think, in the words of your god Reagan, "There they go again." You guys have been reduced to attacking Obama over the mustard he puts on his food. And we should listen to you?

Keep defending torture if you want to. Not only will you be regarded as the "Party of No," but you will be seen as the "Party of Torture." You can thank your leaders Uncle Rush and Cousin Dick Cheney for helping to cement those facts.

Mr. Bond, sit down and actually offer up some constructive ideas to slow your party's descent into oblivion, because it seems 20% of people identifying as GOP must be too high for you guys.

Obama scares me. He now ranks number 2 on my list of top 10 fears, 2nd only to the media.

The US Constitution is NOT just a symbol Mr. Bond. I am so sick of these Republican COWARDS!!!!

They preach fear all day everyday, "Be afraid, be afraid!! Be afraid of homosexuals, be afraid of terrorists, be afraid of socialism (even though I don't know what it is!), afraid of the poor, afraid of taxes that might make the rich angry, afraid of immigrants, black people, condoms, nudity and on ad infinitum. Now they are afraid of having men in chains within the borders of this country. Why?? Are they going to turn into the X-Men and break out of jail and start sleeping with our daughters???

Land of the Free and Home of the Brave.

GOP version
Land of the semi-free and Home of the Afraid.

WHAT!? Another Repug has come forth with something to down grade the current administration on. GEE what a surprise.

When will these reprobates get it – they are past due. Their account is past due – their position is full of emptiness and they all need to go away.

This is, indeed, a new world – the times, they are a'changin

Obama has no leadership experience. He has no decision making experience. He is a poor excuse for a President. He launches his have baked ideas and even the media , who adore him, have to finally write that his idea has tons of problems. He has weak, unlearned, biased, preconceived agenda based advisers. For some reason, the WH press ignores his fatal handicap. If you compared the facts (not the innuendo and slant) of the stories of Bush vs Obama, you will find that Obama is getting criticized for the content of his decisions and Bush was criticized for his delivery. Bush was a smart, solid manager with poor speaking skills. Obama has great speaking skills, but has no idea how to run a business, much less a country. Why can't the media tell it like it is? Are they having sex with him? Maybe it is the fact that journalists pride themselves in telling a story, the delivery, and literally ignore the truth. They can relate to a good story teller but cannot relate to good decision maker who is trying to narrow in on the truth. I remember a recent journalist column that told student journalists not to wait for the absolute truth before publishing a story. This was published in a newspaper! The objective of a journalist was not the truth; it was selling a story. Here is Obama selling a story.

Do you mean to suggest that putting people in our Maximum security prisons, leaves us at some greater risk, than by those that are already in there

More meaningless garbage out of the mouths that heiped put us here in the first place

Republicans ... the Party Of "I Don't Know What To Do" ... so I'll be critical in an effort to appear important ...

What a bunch of jerks ...

pelican bay works for our domestic gangsters, murderers ect....i bet we can find some space for the gitmo gangsters

i think it should remain open. i dont want terrorist in my !&#^ country. but they should all be line up and shot. and i dont agree with torture period, but if it saves innocent people and soldiers from getting killied then am all for. but dont get me wrong Bush was the worst thing that ever happened to this country.

Look as an MP who actually interacted with these detainees at GITMO, we need to come up with a legal solution to holding people indefinitely without due process of law. Also, in the summer of 1987 at 17 year old, I completed Basic Training at Ft. McClellan, AL. One of the most defining momemt of my training and the foundation of my military beliefs is that we, America, do not torture despite what is done to us! The Geneve Convention, Law of the Hague and other federal and international treaties prohibits me, my superiors, my subordinates and any military personnel from torturing our prisioners irregardless of the circumstances we find ourselves in. I know that if I was ever told to go againt these principles, I was to (1) refuse to act and (2) to report the matter all the way up the Chain of Command. Individuals who have not served in the military cannot begin to comprehend what it means to know that our elected leaders who have not served or who chose the easy way out authorized these acts. In the end, all we have are our values: Loyalty, duty, respect, selfless service, honor, integrity and personal courage.

Mr. Obama is inexperienced, and a novice and that is such a shame for the USA. He changes his mind on a daily basis.
66,000 Jobs created last month – almost all Gov't Jobs – the sit around and do nothing jobs. Ever watch Congress? Most of them are never there....they have to call a quoram to find the clowns.
The hardened criminals could be put in our prison, and then they could infest the minds of more people – that is naive.
If we torture via waterboarding then the USA has been torturing Navy Seals, Special Forces, and Pilots...as that is part of the training...LOL.
IF ANY OF THESE TERROISTS, HAVING AT THE LEAST BEEN TRAINED IN TERRORISTS CAMPS, THEN LET THEM LOOSE IN ERIC HOLDER, AND CONGRESS NEIGHBORHOOD. Watch what happens !
Joan B
WI

"Perhaps Mr. Bond should take note of what the Saudi's are doing.

While yes, the Saudis were part of the problem, they are fast becoming part of the solution. A great majority of the "terrorists" they've put through their reforming programs have come out completely changed people.

Ever consider that you know, doing this kind of stuff to people will only increase our problem instead of solve it? Please for the love of pete Mr. Bond, read up on what happens when you torture someone. One would think that once you put a group of people through hell that have been fighting you, they'd only have more of a reason to fight you more"

Whoever this guy is, does he really expect to reform these terrorists? These religious extremists have no interest in anything but destroying the US, the center of all evil in their twisted minds. I actually saw an article on CNN (much to my surprise) about how several 9/11 terrorists were, shall we say, committed to undermining the US in any way. Now, I may be a pessimist, but can we realistically expect that releasing these people will suddenly make them love the US? I think they'll spend the whole plane ride laughing at our naivete. What's the matter with GITMO anyway?

CNN, I am becoming perturbed by your kind of news reporting.
You give your platform to promote the GOP talking point every minute you get and spend the same time casting aspersions doubts on Obama's program. Yet you claim to be an independent news media. I think your news organization is fast becoming Conservative News Network. We already have Fox News doing that.

Where is Obama's Weeklly broadcast here on this Political Tickler. Oh, it is not essential to highlight it lest you disseminate his message in its raw form.

I wander when you will start reporting the news truly without sowing seeds of doubt or propergate contentious thoughts.

Though you'll read this and put it in moderation forever and then not post it for all to see. But at least you read it; if at all.

We're sure these are all "deadly terrorists," eh? Well let's prove it in court then. If we can't do that, we must set them free. This is not a police state (anymore). Our founding fathers would think you are a disgrace, Kit.

Yet, nowhere on the CNN site are they discussing the fact that Obama is recommencing with military tribunals, nor the fact it was the Democrats who stopped funding for the Gitmo closing. Probably has to do with the AG talking about releasing some of them in the U.S.

The reason the U.S. was attacked on 9/11 was because of arrogant pricks in charge of foreign policy. George Bush was an egotistical, over confident bully, who felt like he could do as he pleased without any push back from from outside America's borders. The whole philosophy of Republicans is WAR, More WAR, and Unending WAR. GITMO wouldn't be an issue if Georgy Bush and Rummy-Rumsfeld hadn't written policy that made it mandatory to do stoopid unnecessary tactics that showed the world just how far the U.S. would go in treating prisoners. Were they terrorists? Yes. Were they treated as sub-human as Hitler treated the Jews during WWII? Yes. That is why President Obama is shutting down GITMO. He doesn't want the U.S. to be compared to Nazi Germany. Bush = Hitler. When the U.S. starts showing the world we are better than terrorists then our enemies will take notice. The only compassion Republicans ever show to ANYONE is when they hide fake companies in the Cayman Islands as tax shelters for the rich so that the average middle-class American keeps paying taxes while the rich are off the hook. Thank God in heaven President Obama is ending this Republican practice. Ahhh . . . it's so nice to be able to wake up everyday and know that President Obama is in charge of the United States of America. The Republicans are crying to their momma Rash LameBrain and pissing in their diapers. Waaa, waaaa, waaaa, boo hoo. "Does it hurt to have a temperature?", they say. Aw poor babies. Now sit up and take your medicine. Get a good full dose of how a country should be run. Now, now, there's nothing you can do to stop this new American Revolution. You can write books, blab all you want and complain about President Obama on CNN, make hateful accusations against what President Obama and the superior Democrat leadership is doing in Congress, but you can't stop this bold new agenda that will put an end to Republican cronyism and restore the American dream. Ah ha. We won and you didn't. You lost and you're mad. Now your petty little feelings are hurt. Too bad so sad. Talk to the hand cause the brain don't understand.

It's very simple, really. If they're terrorists, try them on terrorism, convict them and lock them up somewhere. The biggest problem with Gitmo is that these people are being held without trial. You would assume the government has evidence against them. Which makes you think that the majority of them held there may not even be terrorists.

What happened to our rule of law? Guess it's only necessary when it's beneficial to the party in charge.

Kitt's desperation here is almost palpable. Sorry, old man, but times have changed and your country can't wait for you to catch up!

I find it funny how all you guys simply use loud mouths and false statements to blast the republican party and say that is all they do. I am a moderate, I say grow a pair dont be a lazy Americans, do some research and form your own opinions, these blogs have became pathetic lazy and pathetic.

The GOP keeps trotting out partisan dishonest fools like Bond, Cheney, Boehner, Limbaugh, Hannity, Palin...the list goes on and on. I LOVE it – the more they whitewash and paint over all of their lies and mistakes of the past eight years while accusing Dems of everything under the sun, the more long term damage they do to their own party. In a way it's justice – the same tactics the GOP used to destroy our country are now destroying their own party. Keep spouting your idiotic rants, GOP boys and girls! Most of America has learned by now that if we have to choose between believing YOU or our OWN "lying" eyes...we'll believe our eyes. What a bunch of morons...and the GOP used to be my party – until they put an incompetent, ignorant, dishonest dolt in the White House.

Here we go again with the FEAR ECHO by the Repugs concerning the detainees. If I remember correctly from a little history, we imported some German Prisoners to American during World War II. I don't recall them doing anything to disrupt the American way of life. In fact, they were treated for greater to a large extent than the Negro(Black) Soldiers during that time.

I wonder, could a large degree of the problem with the detainees be the hue of their skin and their religion?

Keep talking you Repugs, the vast number of Americans are clearly seeing you for what you are. For most, part RIGHT WINGERS and Tolal Dislike for other who are not like you.

ah yes lets wrap ourselves in national security issues/concerns and forget the principles that our constitution stands for and what we really stand for.

Another reason why I must laugh at the Republicans and Democrats alike.

It's not as though Khalid Sheik Mohammed will break out of his cell and run around the country like the HULK, and it's not as though keeping that pathetic excuse for a human being for as long as he can yield information is going to make Muslim youth around the world commit to Jihad...

But using express torture will reduce the efficacy of information gathering, and allowing jihadists to use our criminal justice system will provide them with a means of propaganda.

Send'em to the Salt Pit!

Obama's approach still beats that of the previous administration of "Fire, Fire, FIRE" while aiming at the wrong target.

Our correctional system is more than adequate to deal with this issue. This effort to create hyperbolic fear behooves none of us.

If the republicans would have been smart then we would not have had 911 to begin with. Soon as Bush,Cheney, Rove took over..the hell began not just for other countries but for the American people theirself. Cheney is throwing out all this rhetoric because he doesn't want the American people to see what horrors they really were so out goes the lies and smoke screen. We had 911, lost jobs, then banks and car business going belly up over trillions dollar debt over the wrong war. Borrowed heavily from other countries and handed the next admin nothing but garbage and blood on the platter. The garbage of that admin and the blood of our military people.

How in the h do we end up going to Iraq and Hussein when it was the Taliban and Al Quida we should have gone after and Bin Laden. How did things get so twisted and turned around! Insanity. We went to the wrong war and lost our sons and daughters for the wrong war. How could we let this happen how could the Senate and Congress and Justice Department and American people let this happen.

What a disgrace that any republican jump on that bandwagon of insanity.

There are already convicted terrorists imprisoned here. Our prisons house serial killers, child rapists, and all sorts of scum. During WWII we kept German POWs here.

I'll venture to guess that these terrorist would prefer to stay in Gitmo rather than be imprisoned with some of our worst criminals.

Well, I suppose when your party has nothing else to offer, scaring people into supporting you increasingly irrelavent party is the best you can do.

No – I have a better idea. Let's just keep them at Gitmo – forever. No trials. Let's just waterboard everyone there – hundreds of times. Maybe they can tell us who killed Kennedy...maybe where Hoffa is burried. I mean if torturing these guys gives us some info then it's ok, right Cheney? Let's pour a trillion dollars and 4000 American lives into a country in the middle east because we're positive "without a shadow of a doubt" that there are WMD's there. Yeah – that's what we should do. Let's continue to follow all the great ideas that our leaders have had for the past 8 years but they have worked out great so far.

If the solution were as simple as Had It, flyingbyshoing, and John would have us believe it is, then Obama should use is superior oratory skills and just TELL US WHAT THE PLAN IS.

Unfortunately, the situation at GITMO is very complicated, and there are no simple solutions. It will take time to develop a solution - a solution that is BETTER than the current status quo of keeping GITMO open. Sen Bond is correct to want to know what the Obamo alternative is before closing GITMO.

At least this Bond guy says he'll aim before he shoots; a little safer to go hunting with than Mr. Cheney...

This sounds like more of the tired GOP nonsense about Democrats being soft on national security.

Sen. Bond,

Are you suggesting that the United States is incapable of detaining dangerous criminals within our borders?

Assuming for the moment that the people at GITMO are guilty of anything more than being a convenient person to turn over to US forces for the "Terrorist Reward", no questions asked. I'm sure some of them are, but I digress.

We have violent, dangerous criminals, who have committed horrendous acts in our prison system. We have the largest percentage of our population incarcerated than any other nation (including 'police state dictatorships'). We have military prisons that are guarded by battalions of trained soldiers, tanks, and artillery, not just correctional officers.

Are you suggesting that ALL of the people running and guarding ALL of those facilities, are so incompetent, and SOO susceptible to the power of persuasion these prisoners possess, that they can't handle it?

Can you imagine the OUTRAGE that would be coming out of the GOP if a Democrat inferred such incompetence upon our servicemen and women? Or how they were trying to encourage criminality by suggesting that the CO's in the regular prisons were incompetent, and easily bribed or turned against their country? The Republicans would be calling for formal apologies and resignations all around!

If American prisons can keep the public safe from the likes of Charles Manson and Richard Ramirez, they can keep the public safe from these guys. For this dork to suggest that Obama will "send them into our communities", is one more example of Republlicans playing to fear and ignorance. And THAT is what makes the Republicans so pathetic and nasty, and yes, unpatriotic.

Bond is 100% ACCURATE!!!!

Let's use some of that Federal stimulis money to build a super maximum security prison somewhere "out in the middle of nowhere" here in the U.S. I'm thinking of a prison modeled after the infamous Pelican Bay.

This would put a lot of Americans to work, AND provide a place to house the GITMO detainees that have been tried and convicted of being terrorists.

This would kill three birds with one stone: Close GITMO, put Americans to work, and provide a place to send the terrorists.

if the republicans keep up the threats then they will fall by their own means . and scatter across the planet and never be heard from again..HMMMM oh well.
americans are finnally catching on to the lies and threats . each of them might get voted out of office or if they are smart change parties and get on board with the new program and help make it better.

"Ready, fire, aim"? I thought that was Cheney's hunting strategy!

Wait a minute, a Republican that doesn't agree with a Democrat??? DID NOT see that one coming...

Mr. Bond, had you been held captive with no due process for years, and possibly tortured, you might want to fight the country that imprisoned you as well. In fact, if there had been a shred of tengible proof that the men released were terrorists then we both know they wouldn't have been released at all. I, for one, am not comfortable letting people of your ilk decided who should be imprisoned based on your suspisions alone. If these man released are indeed terrorists fighting us now then I suspect they will meet their end on the battlefield and I wish them a speedy death. Some of you people are so afraid that you're willing to compromise our constitution and our entire way of life simply so you can feel safer.

good idea GOP..instead of putting some of these terroists in American prisons where we can keep an eye on them and even perhaps find out more information from them, why not just send them someplace else even back where they came from to be imprisoned where they can get back and communicate with their terrorist buddies, tell how the Americans treated them and then let them plan another attack. Makes sense to me..you have to admire how the far right thinks..or DOESN'T think. Just more GOP opposition to the president..nothing new.

I know.... let them live with Goper and tom!! He/she can just hug them to death. These are not people that were just picked up walking down the street. These are people that had shot at or planned to kill our soldiers or innocents to further their brainwashed cause for a false god. This is not about the failures of bush, clinton , democrats or republicans. Until you idiots realize that it has NOTHING to do with either side of American politics then you will continue to FAIL. Wake up

Nick-
Please tell me where you've gotten your information about the Saudi's Reformation procedures.

Republicans can't win with the numbers in the voting processs so they resort to fear. They fail to realize that what Americans fear is Republican control again.

Obama is an intelligent President, so the Republicans can't understand him.....

@Nick, these people were fighting us long before any 'torture'. Didn't you see the CNN interview with that Taliban leader? He says the interrogations don't matter at all. The attacks on the WTC (twice), the USS Cole, 2 US embassies in East Africa, and others all CAME FIRST. These people hate us and it's either us or them. If they want to be martyrs, let's accelerate the process. Our choice is simple, we can be hated and safe; or hated and unsafe.

I'm getting tired of all you nutroot leftists whining about everything. So what, we put towels over their heads and pour water on it. That is not torture. Cutting a mans head off in front of a web cam is. When are you people going to get off the pipe and come back to reality and realize that this is not a perfect world, and its problems can't be solved with a smile and handshake. Put them in our prisons; then when they escape and capture your family, we'll see what kind of tune you sing. The ignorance of the fascist left sickens me.

Who is this guy? He's not relevant as far as I can tell. Move on.

There is a simple answer to all the hoopla surrounding the "GITMO" detainees.

Send one each to the home of the Republicans who vote for and are hell bent on unlawful interrogations.

The first one and the worst should be send to Dick Cheney and monitored 24/7 to be sure he is fed by Cheney himself. The others should be chosen carefully and sent to the other members of the GOP, like Sen. Bond; he can take in two prisoners as he seem to be wealthy enough to support them. End of story; all prisoners accounted for and are safe with the GOP where they belong.

I support his questions. I want to know what he is going to do with these people and how that is going to affect our country and the development and training of terrorists within our prisons, and terrorists cells that are already in place in our country.

Give it up, Republicans. We are sick and tired of your negative take on EVERYTHING the nationally-elected President of the United States does, thinks, or even may do (SCOTUS pick guessing, anyone?).

I am so fed up with you, from Cheney on down, that I've lost my appetite for listening anymore.

Goodbye!

We don't want these people in the U.S. Send them back to their home countrys. If their home country don't want them ,let them decide what to do with them. They can either jail them,shoot them or let them go. If they let them go they will just get back in the fight. They are in GITMO for a reason,they were caught on the battle feild. They have no rights what so ever. They are not soldiers they are TERRORISTS.

OH my God!!!! Are you kidding me? What is wrong with these Republicans Who has the time and energy to Whine everday about what our President is doing if they spent half of their time trying to think of something constructive and positive they wouldnt be so miserable but I will say I hope they keep it up so their party will stay behind forever WAKE UP THE 50S AND 60S ARE GONE THIS IS A NEW GENERATION!!!!!

Perhaps Mr. Bond should take note of what the Saudi's are doing.

While yes, the Saudis were part of the problem, they are fast becoming part of the solution. A great majority of the "terrorists" they've put through their reforming programs have come out completely changed people.

Ever consider that you know, doing this kind of stuff to people will only increase our problem instead of solve it? Please for the love of pete Mr. Bond, read up on what happens when you torture someone. One would think that once you put a group of people through hell that have been fighting you, they'd only have more of a reason to fight you more.

Middle of the road white collar criminals? Puhleeze... So it's OK to rob the general public of gigantic sums of money? Down with the Republican party FOREVER.

The GOP have a laughable, comic book view of the prisoners at GitMo. They would have us think that the slobs there are all mutants that are held in special cells that neutralize their powers, and if they were moved here, it would certainly be the equivalent of "house arrest". They would easily escape and start bringing down skyscrapers with their laser beam eyes while at the same time making dirty bombs out of old cell phones and fluorescent lights.

The GOP's boogey-man tactic relies on ignorance of U.S. prisons. We may not be number one in Health Care, or Education, but when it comes to prisons, we're the king.

This guy is afraid of own shadow. Boo! We already have convicted "terrorists" held in US prisons, why no fear of those men? Is he saying our maximum security prisons are no good? The Blind Sheik is here. Zacaria Moussaouri is here. Jose Padilla is here among others.

You are so correct Bill. It is always something that encourages the Republicans to fear monger. They are trying to scare us into voting for them again. It won't happen. President Obama is keeping his campaign promises.
It is the same tune every day and it is getting really tiresome hearing all their bickering. Get a clue Repugs,it won't work any more and it makes you less relevant each time you do it.

If it/s a terrorist you can bring him to the USA and
bring him to justice but a lot of the prisoners are there for 6 years
without any charge.
Now that's just the way to create a new terrorist..

It's this sort of rhetoric that alienates us and prevents us from ever regaining the popularity and trust within the world. Go crawl back into your bunker with Cheney, Bond, and give the President's plans a chance to work. Eight years is long enough.

Another Republican mouth that supported Bush in his lies that got us into this awful war

Now spouting off ... NO NO NO NO

No new ideas ... no meaningful agenda

Just a lot of big mouths with nothing to say

Typical Republican

No. The "ready, fire, aim" strategy was already overplayed by Bush when he and his stooges got us into Iraq.

A white southern reactionary trying to frighten people? Now how on earth did the GOP come up with that?

I think this is also overrated, you can explain to me as much as you want why Gitmo needs to stay open but I'm going with numbers here, I don't care what 250+ detainees are gonna do, send em back where they came from, you act like that many can cause damage instead of they were they are, it really makes no difference and if you are going to give an argument on why it should be open or closed or whatever, I'm telling you right now, I don't think it matters what WE think about these guys than the others at the Middle East, what's the difference between 250 and 20,000??? What is the difference??? Listen, I have numbers, and I ain't gonna listen to something that's as overrated as war itself...I mean, if we are going to worry about what they are going to do, then I wonder what people are thinking in the Middle East?? You can't have it both ways, I personally don't care, I did my research and I ain't gonna listen to both sides and I sure as heck ain't gonna listen what the GOP did "right" the last 8 years...

Is this man the stereotypical republican. If people have a right to know what we are going to do with these "prisoners" .They should also have a right to know what we have already done to these people ,like torture. Bond, and Bush, and Cheney have turned us into a country that is hated around the world. And the Bonds of the world talk about South American Dictators and bowing to Arab kings. Bush brought us to a level so low we have to eat crow just to be taken seriously again. Arrogance and torture are not the country I learned about in history class.

You have to give it to the Republicans every week a different face same old song. Maybe they are stuck in a time lag and President Regan in no longer President. The American people will not fall for their un-truths anymore.

Keep it up Republicans and your party will be gone forever. Maybe the Wig Party will make a come back.

Gee – the US spends millions (maybe billions) keeping maximum security prisons in this country. If they can't hold 1 terrorist in each one, then maybe those prisons are a waste of money.

We are not Communist China and we Do Not Torture, Period. We are the United States of America!