Australia Not Interested In Gitmo Detainees Coming There

• January 4, 2009

If Obama really wants to close Guantanamo Bay he’s going to have a hard time doing it because it seems nobody in the world wants the detainees currently at Gitmo in their country:

MELBOURNE, Australia — Australia has told the United States for a second time that it will not resettle detainees freed from the Guantanamo Bay military prison in Cuba, the acting prime minister said Saturday.
Julia Gillard said President George W. Bush’s administration was told Friday that a request made in early December to resettle an unspecified number of detainees had been rejected.
“Assessing those requests from a case-by-case basis, they had not met our stringent national security and immigration criteria and have been rejected,” said Gillard, who is filling in for Prime Minister Kevin Rudd while he is on vacation.
She said the government had rejected a similar resettlement request in early 2008.
The Bush administration made the latest request after President-elect Barack Obama promised to close the prison.

I’m sure al Qaeda and/or other terror organizations around the world would be happy to have these monsters back. Of course, I don’t think even Obama is naive enough to want to put them in a situation where the Gitmo detainees could go back to those groups.
During his campaign Obama made a lot of noise about closing down Gitmo, and I think that noise is going to come back to bite him.
On one hand, if he follows through and closes down Guantanamo – thus releasing the noxious terrorists kept there back into the world – I’d be willing to bet that it’d be a matter of a few months before those terrorists were making headlines again by having been caught participating in more terrorism and attacks.
On the other hand, if Obama doesn’t follow through and close Guantanamo – or if he pulls a Clintonesque move like closing that detention facility but moving the detainees to some other location, well now that’s not really the sort of hope ‘n change he campaigned on now is it? Remember, Gitmo has become an issue so important to the left that the orange jumpsuits worn by the detainees there have become de rigeur at anti-war events across the country.
I’ll readily admit that there are no simple solutions for Gitmo. I think the status quo is far from optimal, but I think Obama is about to learn that throwing rocks at the decisions other people have to make is much easier than having to make those decisions yourself.

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http://Array FlyOnTheWall

Nobody wants the Gitmo detainees.

Home country either doesn’t want them or will torture/kill them on arrival. Therefore we can’t send that one back.

We don’t want them in our country, certainly Not In My Back Yard.

It was easier when people were killed in war. Not as civilized but we’ve never run into this problem before.
AR-15

“I say send them home. Put them in a C-130, open the cargo door at 30,000 feet and kick there ass out and let them get a closer look at Allah.”

I agree Citizen, that is an awesome solution. These scum bag asshole’s shouldn’t have made it this long. OMG! I’m such a hate monger, right you liberal ass lickers. Perhaps the enemy sympathizers should invite the people to stay @ their house.
jimmypop

kill them or send them back to their homelands. this has gone on long enough.
http://boyddrivefollies.blogspot.com/ Good Ol Boy

Tell ya what- there are a few square miles of flat, useless alkyline soil up by Joliette ND. Word always was that it would take 3 days to lose a dog up there. Build a nice warm prison complex for the guards, and some cold tin huts for the goat fuckers. Dress em in fluorescent orange so if they escape, the guards can see em from a ways away. Give the guards in the towers .50 cal guns. Problem solved.
http://forums.kikizo.com/ Eddie_the_Hated

Closing Gitmo isn’t the solution. Geographically speaking, short of desert detention centers, Guantanamo Bay is one of the most secure housings for threats to US national security.

Now, with that being said, the place needs a major overhaul. While I’m always on erring on caution’s side, especially when American lives are at stake, to assume that every inmate is automatically guilty is a direct violation of due process. Quite frankly, even if you don’t believe that due process applies to accused (not convicted) terrorists, it’s still a rather un-American quality, especially as people consistently raise the question “why don’t they like us very much?”.

There are innocents at Gitmo, anybody who denies this need only go so far as the US government, for admission of that, and it will be Obama’s responsibility to root them out, retaining those who would do the world, not simply Americans, harm.
welder4

I could not say that there are innocent people there I don’t know neither does any one else these were picked up on the battle field and therefore are guilty by just being in the place at the wrong time for them , it is not a good feeling to convict an innocent man but it is also more unnerving to see a guilty one go free.I do not agree with he courts decision to give them the same rights as us , but that can be debated for ever . never has that happened in time of war so it is something new. I know we don’t want to keep someone confined that is innocent but when there is no way to prove that innocence what does one do? maybe let them go and they wind up setting the stage for a few hundred or a few thousand innocent women and children to be slaughtered , take your pick but my pick would be to not take that chance. I don’t look for Obama to do much of what he promised to do, most politicians live in two or three worlds and they pick the one they like at the moment.
A Citizen

I say send them home. Put them in a C-130, open the cargo door at 30,000 feet and kick there ass out and let them get a closer look at Allah.
http://forums.kikizo.com/ Eddie_the_Hated

On one hand, if he follows through and closes down Guantanamo – thus releasing the noxious terrorists kept there back into the world – I’d be willing to bet that it’d be a matter of a few months before those terrorists were making headlines again by having been caught participating in more terrorism and attacks.

On a second wind, it’s arguments like this that really kill me in the Gitmo discussion.

We either keep them locked up, burning their religious texts, freezing them to death in cells, and using torture to extract consistently unreliable information, or we loose them by parachute into the American midwest, with a bag of fertilizer and a can of gasoline a-piece.

The majority of Americans want Gitmo open, because they dislike the alternative, but that doesn’t mean they’re all peachy with what we’re doing there at the moment.
http://forums.kikizo.com/ Eddie_the_Hated

I could not say that there are innocent people there I don’t know neither does any one else these were picked up on the battle field and therefore are guilty by just being in the place at the wrong time for them , it is not a good feeling to convict an innocent man but it is also more unnerving to see a guilty one go free.

You don’t support sexual abuse do you? Because that thing you’re doing to the English language is rape.

Grammar aside, the notion that we are not aware of innocents in Gitmo is a belief, and nothing more; something you tell yourself because it’s what you feel is the truth.

I on the other hand, have decided to employ facts, and sources in the formation of my worldview.

http://www.csmonitor.com/2006/0213/p03s03-usju.html
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2007/04/28/AR2007042801145.html?nav=rss_print/asection

Both cases, involving more than one suspect. Both cases cleared by the United States government. Let these stand as an antithesis to your statement that we “do not know”.

If our own department of defense, the entity with arguably the most credible information about the War on Terror, tells us they are safe, who the hell are you, or anybody else, to say otherwise?

The idea that since we can’t root out the bad apples, we should just keep them all locked up is the same logic that interred thousands of Japanese citizens during World War II.

Camps, which, before anyone can defend, were formally apologized for under the senior Bush administration…
Kramer

…send em to be greeted by their “72 virgins” in Hell
di butler

I think all the people who want it closed should be required to take at least 2 into their own homes and be responsible for them.
http://ndgoon.blogspot.com/ goon

It will be interesting to see what happens to Gitmo, We don’t want the terrorist here.
http://sayanythingblog.com/readers/entry/homosexuality_is_wrong_-_a_compendium move_zig

Anyone remember the scene in Ghostbusters when the EPA guy ordered the Containment Chamber to be shut down, and all the caught ghosts were released?

Yeah. Like that, but a 1,000 times worse than 9/11..

Why, tha… that’d be..!

That’s right Gary… 911,000!!!

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