@revelette2,
revelette2 wrote:We have done wrong in Guantanamo,
No we haven't.
revelette2 wrote:we tortured prisoners against our own previously held standards and against the Geneva Convention.
The torture took place in Europe, not at Guantanamo.
revelette2 wrote:We are holding these people for over twelve years without a charge, again against the GC of which we signed.
The Geneva Conventions allow POWs to be detained until the end of a war.
revelette2 wrote:We are force feeding prisoners against Physicians medical opinions of it being dangerous to their health with life long medical issues afterwards.
Better than listening to people whine at us when they starve to death.
revelette2 wrote:I am hoping Obama keeps up this take charge attitude and goes over congress's head on this issue as well.
If you mean for him to release dangerous terrorists, he isn't about to do any such thing.
If you mean the low-level Yemeni militants, the obstacle there is not Congress, but the fact that there is nowhere to release them to.
Unless you'd like to use military force against another country in order to make them accept the detainees?
revelette2 wrote:I am hoping Obama keeps up this take charge attitude and goes over congress's head on this issue as well. At this point, what has he got to loose besides his presidency and it would be better to go out with a bang rather than keep knuckling under to those bullies.
I don't think sacrificing his presidency in order to free a bunch of terrorists is the sort of legacy he has in mind.