Colin Powell: Guantamano should be closed

[malaise]

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/19153972/
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Former Secretary of State Colin Powell said on Sunday the U.S. military prison at Guantanamo Bay for foreign terrorism suspects should be immediately closed and its inmates moved to the United States.

Powell, who in a 2003 speech to the U.N. Security Council made the case for war against Iraq for possessing weapons of mass destruction that were never found, said the controversial prison in Cuba had become a “major problem” for the United States’ image abroad and done more harm than good.

“Guantanamo has become a major, major problem ... in the way the world perceives America and if it were up to me I would close Guantanamo not tomorrow but this afternoon ... and I would not let any of those people go. I would simply move them to the United States and put them into our federal legal system,” Powell told NBC’s 'Meet the Press'.
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One more war criminal recants.

[DURHAM D]

1. Talk is cheap. eom

[MUAD_DIB]

2. Powell is as much of a failure as * is. Just because he is "out"

doesn't pardon him for helping to get the US into the mess in the first place.


Since Colin hasn't renounced * for being a corporate sociopath he is still part of the PNAC mess as when he was "in."


Fall into the abyss that awaits you and your master, Colin.

[sueh]

3. Powell has no credibility.

He is "dead to me".

[Bluerthanblue]

4. i don't care how he got there, or why

but i'm glad he doesn't support Gitmo's continual operation, and that he is encourageing that the people who have been held there should be treated the same as any other prisoners- (charged with a crime or released, afforded appropriate legal representation etc)- and i'm glad he's speaking out on this issue-

If everyone who differed with the mentality took the time to voice their opposition, perhaps those who don't like 'going against the machine'- might start to wake up.

Should we dis a persons statement about something we agree on, just because of what they've done in the past? What room does that leave for someone to change in a positive way???? Or is there no room in 'our' world for people who have screwed up royally????

sure hope not, it could be a pretty small world if we're honest in our self assessments.

:shrug:

blu

[malaise]

5. I too am glad for any support against Gitmo

but every time I post his name, I will remind all that he was a part of this criminal gang.

[Bluerthanblue]

7. that is

fair enough-

imo-
:hi:
peace,
blu

[Colobo]

6. For many DUers, people can't rectify.